I want to script the creation of N solr cloud instances (on ec2). But its not clear to me where I would specify numShards setting. >From documentation, I see you can specify on the "first node" you start up, OR >alternatively, use the "collections" API to create a new collection - but in >that case you need first at least one running SOLR instance. I want to push >all solr instances with similar configuration onto N instances and just run >them with some number of shards pre-set somehow. Where can I put numShards >configuration setting?
What I want to do: 1) push solr configuration to zookeeper ensemble using zkCli command-line tool. 2) create N instances of SOLR running on Ec2, pointing to the same zookeeper 3) start all SOLR instances which will become a cloud setup with M shards (where M<N), and N-M replicas. Currently everything starts up with 1 shards, and N replicas. I already have one single collection pre-configured.
