Re: from zookeper embedded to standalone

2016-03-19 Thread Erick Erickson
Looking forward to finding out if it works as I haven't had to do this myself ;). As Upayavira mentions though, you might have to do some fancy dancing with the ZK quorum. I'm assuming that once all the data is moved around, shutting down _all_ the Zookeepers (and Solrs!) and reconfiguring the co

Re: from zookeper embedded to standalone

2016-03-15 Thread Rachid Bouacheria
Thank you very much Erick. You described almost for word what I thought about doing. I just wasn't sure about how "drinkable" a cocktail made out of embedded and the external zookeeper. I was worried I'd get a severe hangover :-) I will give it a try and give an update. Rachid. On Tue, Mar 15,

Re: from zookeper embedded to standalone

2016-03-15 Thread Upayavira
You need to be careful adding new nodes to Zookeeper as you change the number of nodes required for quorum. If you then remove nodes afterwards, how will the cluster know whether they were intentionally removed, rather than being simply down? One thing I've done recently, which seems to have worke

Re: from zookeper embedded to standalone

2016-03-15 Thread Erick Erickson
Hmmm, I don't think anyone's really documented this as the supposition is that one would only run embedded for sandboxes and set up an external ensemble "for real". So, with the caveat that I haven't personally tried this, I'd add external zookeepers as part of an ensemble that contained my embedd

from zookeper embedded to standalone

2016-03-15 Thread Rachid Bouacheria
Hi, I am running solr 4.x on 3 servers with zookeper embedded in prod. Each servers has 1 leader and 2 replicas. I want to switch zookeper from embedded to standalone. I want to know if the steps are documented anywhere? I could not find them. I am worried my index will get messed up if in the