Check this article: "SolrCloud - Assigning Nodes To Machines" by Erick Erickson. He explains how to do this step by step: http://heliosearch.org/solrcloud-assigning-nodes-machines/
-----Original Message----- From: vidit.asthana [mailto:vidit.astha...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 5:09 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: While creating collection in SolrCloud can we manually select machines(nodes) I have a 4 machine cluster. I want to create a collection with 1 shard and 1 replica. So I only need 2 machines. Is there a way I can explicitly define the machines on which my new collection should be created. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/While-creating-collection-in-SolrCloud-ca n-we-manually-select-machines-nodes-tp4144593.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.