Why are you running multiple instances on the same host? You can host your two replicas inside the same Solr instance.
Also, you should not concern yourself (too much) with which node is the leader as that can change through time. How have you come to the conclusion that you need to shard? Upayavira On Fri, Nov 27, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Adrian Liew wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to figure out how to setup 3 shard 3 server setup with a > replication factor of 2 with SolrCloud 5.3.0. > > In particular trying to follow this setup described in this blog: > http://lucidworks.com/blog/2014/06/03/introducing-the-solr-scale-toolkit/ > > EC2 Instance 1 > > Shard 1 - Leader (port 8984 separate drive with 50 GB SSD) > Shard 2 - Leader (port 8985 separate drive with 50 GB SSD) > > EC2 Instance 2 > > Shard 1 - Replica (port 8984 separate drive with 50 GB SSD) > Shard 2 - Replica (port 8985 separate drive with 50 GB SSD) > > EC2 Instance 3 > > Shard 1 - Replica (port 8984 separate drive with 50 GB SSD) > Shard 2 - Replica (port 8985 separate drive with 50 GB SSD) > > Can anyone shed some light on how these can be configured using the > SolrCloud collection API or using Solr command line utility to split them > on different instances. > > As I know there are two approaches to sharding that is "Custom Sharding" > and "Automatic Sharding". Which approach suits the use case described > above? > > Is anyone able to provide pointers from past experience or point me to a > good article that describes how this can be setup? > > Regards, > Adrian >
