Thanks Shawn, We want to send less traffic over virtual machines and more on physical servers . How can we achieve this
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 3/20/2018 11:18 PM, Midas A wrote: > >> I have one question here >> a) solr cloud load balance requests internally (Round robin or anything >> else ). >> > > Yes, SolrCloud does load balance requests across active replicas in the > entire cloud. I do not know what algorithm it uses for load balancing -- > whether that's round-robin or something else. > > b) How can i change this behaviour (Note. I have solr cloud with mix of >> machines physical and virtual ) >> > > There is some effort underway to allow SolrCloud to prefer specific > replica types. Recent versions of Solr added TLOG and PULL types, to > supplement the NRT type that all versions of SolrCloud have. There is > strong interest in being able to prefer one of the new types and let the > NRT replicas handle indexing only when possible. > > There is already a "preferLocalShards" parameter ... but enabling this > parameter can actually make performance *worse*, by concentrating requests > onto a single machine and leaving the other machines in the cloud idle. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
