Looking for help in building a configuration that should be simple

[David Patterson]

I've been asked to build a sample configuration of SolrCloud using Solr
4.10.

I want to have two instances (virtual machines) each with two solr nodes.
Let's call the instances 1 and 2, and the nodes 1AO, 1BB, 2AB, and 2BO.  I
want 1AO to be the owner of that shard with 2AB as the backup, and 2BO to
be the owner of its data and have 1BB as its backup.

I also want to use an external ZooKeeper that we already have and trust for
all 4 solr nodes.

Is this something that is doable, and what does it take to make it so?

Thanks.

Dave Patterson

How important is the name of the data collection?

[David Patterson]

I'm trying to make two virtual machines, each with one 4.10 SOLR-cloud code
instance, connected to the same external Zookeeper site.

I want to create one data collection with one shard on each of these two
machines.

If I use the "start" method as described in the Apache Solr Reference Guide
for my release, will the two machines be connected if I declare the same
data collection name for both of them? If not, how do I connect them?

(I know the start method can make two solr-cloud instances on ONE virtual
machine, but I want to make one on each of two virtual machines.)

Thanks

Dave P