Thank you very much Sameer, Erick and Upayavira. I got the solr cloud working !!! Hurray !!
Cheers Ravi Kiran Bhaskar On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > and replicationFactor is the number of copies of your data, not the > number of servers marked 'replica'. So as has been said, if you have one > leader, and three replicas, your replicationFactor will be 4. > > Upayavira > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015, at 03:29 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > > Ravi: > > > > Sameer is correct on how to get it done in one go. > > > > Don't get too hung up on replicationFactor. You can always > > ADDREPLICA after the collection is created if you need to. > > > > Best, > > Erick > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Sameer Maggon > > <sam...@measuredsearch.com> wrote: > > > I just gave an example API call, but for your scenario, the > > > replicationFactor will be 4 (replicationFactor=4). In this way, all 4 > > > machines will have the same copy of the data and you can put an LB in > front > > > of those 4 machines. > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Ravi Solr <ravis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> OK...I understood numShards=1, when you say replicationFactor=2 what > does > > >> it mean ? I have 4 machines, then, only 3 copies of data (1 at leader > and 2 > > >> replicas) ?? so am i not under utilizing one machine ? > > >> > > >> I was more thinking in the lines of a Mesh connectivity format i.e. > > >> everybody has others copy so that I can put all 4 machines behind a > Load > > >> Balancer...Is that a wrong way to look at it ? > > >> > > >> Thanks > > >> > > >> Ravi Kiran > > >> > > >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Sameer Maggon < > sam...@measuredsearch.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> > You'll have to say numShards=1 and replicationFactor=2. > > >> > > > >> > http:// > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > [hostname]:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=test&configName=test&numShards=1&replicationFactor=2 > > >> > > > >> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Ravi Solr <ravis...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > 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> > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > *Sameer Maggon* > > >> > Measured Search > > >> > c: 310.344.7266 > > >> > www.measuredsearch.com <http://measuredsearch.com> > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Sameer Maggon* > > > Measured Search > > > c: 310.344.7266 > > > www.measuredsearch.com <http://measuredsearch.com> >
