On 7/10/2016 7:34 PM, Derek Poh wrote: > I need to remove a server from the cluster of serversrunning solr in > my production environment. 1of the collection's replica is a leader on > this server. > The collection is setup as 1shard with 5 replicas. With each replica > residing on a physical server. > > How can I move or assignanother replicaas the leader on another server? > Or should I just go ahead and stop the solr process on this server and > solr or zookeeper will elect another replicaas leader?
If you shut down that Solr server, the remaining servers will elect a new leader. There is the preferred leader functionality, but this is really only something that's needed if you have a very large number of collections/shards and need to distribute the leader roles evenly among multiple servers. For a small number, having leaders concentrated on one server does not represent a performance problem. If the server will be permanently decommissioned, you should probably use DELETEREPLICA on the collections API to remove all replicas on that server before shutting it down. That can also initiate leader election. Thanks, Shawn
