>>> Also, another issue that needs to be raised is the creation of cores
from
>>> the "core admin" section of the gui, doesnt really work well, it
creates
>>> files but then they do not work (again i am using 4.4)
>From my experience "core admin" section of the GUI does not work well in
SolrCloud domain. If I am not mistaken this was somehow fixed in 4.5.0
which acts much better.
I would use only HTTP requests ("cores and collections API") with
SolrCloud and would use GUI only for viewing the state of cluster and
cores.
Primoz
