Take a look at the collections API CREATE command in more detail here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API#CollectionsAPI-api1
Admittedly this is 5.2 but you didn't mention what version of Solr you're using. In particular the createNodeSet and createNodeSet.shuffle parameters. Best, Erick On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:31 AM, MOIS Martin (MORPHO) <martin.m...@morpho.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a cluster with 3 nodes (node1, node2 and node3). Now I want to create > a new collection with 3 shards using `implicit` routing: > > > http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=mycollection&numShards=3&router.name=implicit&shards=shard1,shard2,shard3&router.field=shard > > How can I control on which node each shard gets created? The goal is to > create shard1 on node1, shard2 on node2, etc.. > > The background is that the actual raw data the index is created for should > reside on the same host. That means I have a "raw" record composed of > different data (documents, images, meta-data, etc.) for which I compute a > Lucene "document" that gets indexed. In order to reduce network traffic I > want to process the "raw" record on node1 and insert the resulting Lucene > document into shard1 that resides on node1. If shard1 would reside on node2, > the Lucene document would have to be send from node1 to node2 which causes > for big record sets a lot of inter node communication. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > Martin Mois > # > " This e-mail and any attached documents may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are > notified that any dissemination, copying of this e-mail and any attachments > thereto or use of their contents by any means whatsoever is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the > sender immediately and delete this e-mail and all attached documents from > your computer system." > #
