Separate is generally nice because then you can restart Solr nodes without consideration for ZooKeeper.
Performance-wise, I doubt it's a big deal either way. - Mark On Nov 21, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Marcin Rzewucki <mrzewu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 4 solr collections, 2-3mn documents per collection, up to 100K > updates per collection daily (roughly). I'm going to create SolrCloud4x on > Amazon's m1.large instances (7GB mem,2x2.4GHz cpu each). The question is > what about zookeeper? It's going to be external ensemble, but is it better > to use same nodes as solr or dedicated micro instances? Zookeeper does not > seem to be resources demanding process, but what would be better in this > case ? To keep it inside of solrcloud or separately (micro instances seem > to be enough here) ? > > Thanks in advance. > Regards.
