Can somebody kindly help me understand the difference between the following startup calls ?
./solr start -p 1111 -s /solr/home -z zk1:2181,zk2:2181,zk3:2181 Vs ./solr start -c -p 1111 -s /solr/home -z zk1:2181,zk2:2181,zk3:2181 What happens if i don't pass the "-c" option ?? I read the documentation but got more confused, I do run a ZK ensemble of 3 instances. FYI my cloud seems to work fine and teh Admin UI shows Cloud graph just fine, but I want to just make sure I am doing the right thing and not missing any nuance. The following is form documention on cwiki. --------------- "Start Solr in SolrCloud mode, which will also launch the embedded ZooKeeper instance included with Solr. This option can be shortened to simply -c. If you are already running a ZooKeeper ensemble that you want to use instead of the embedded (single-node) ZooKeeper, you should also pass the -z parameter." ----------------- Thanks Ravi Kiran Bhaskar