Thank you very much for responding Sameer so numShards=0 and replicationFactr=4 if I have 4 machines ??
Thanks Ravi Kiran Bhaskar On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Sameer Maggon <sam...@measuredsearch.com> wrote: > Absolutely. You can have a collection with just replicas and no shards for > redundancy and have a load balancer in front of it that removes the > dependency on a single node. One of them will assume the role of a leader, > and in case that leader goes down, one of the replicas will be elected as a > leader and your application will be fine. > > Thanks, > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Ravi Solr <ravis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > We are trying to move away from Master-Slave configuration to a > > SolrCloud environment. I have a couple of questions. Currently in the > > Master-Slave setup we have 4 Machines 2 of which are indexers and 2 of > them > > are query servers. The query servers are fronted via Load Balancer. > > > > There are 3 solr cores for 3 different/separate applications (mutually > > exclusive). Each core is a complete index of all docs (i.e. the data is > not > > sharded). > > > > We intend to keep it in a non-sharded mode even after the SolrCloud > > mode.The prime motivation to move to cloud is to effectively use all > > servers for indexing and querying (read fault tolerant/redundant). > > > > So, the real question is, can SolrCloud be used without shards ? i.e. a > > "collection" resides entirely on one machine rather than partitioning > data > > onto different machines ? > > > > Thanks > > > > Ravi Kiran Bhaskar > > > > > > -- > *Sameer Maggon* > Measured Search > c: 310.344.7266 > www.measuredsearch.com <http://measuredsearch.com> >
