Re: Adding a new shard

2016-04-18 Thread Jay Potharaju
Thanks for the explaination Erick!. I will try out your recommendation. On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > bq: So inorder for me move the shards to its own instances, I will have to > take a down time and move the newly created shards & replicas to its own > instances. >

Re: Adding a new shard

2016-04-17 Thread Erick Erickson
bq: So inorder for me move the shards to its own instances, I will have to take a down time and move the newly created shards & replicas to its own instances. No, this is not true. The easiest way to move things around is use the collections API ADDREPLICA command after splitting. Let's call th

Re: Adding a new shard

2016-04-17 Thread Jay Potharaju
Erik thanks for the reply. In my current prod setup I anticipate the number of documents to grow almost 5 times by the end of the year and therefore planning on how to scale when required. We have high query volume and growing dataset, that is why would like to scale by sharding & replication. In

Re: Adding a new shard

2016-04-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Why don't you think splitting the shards will do what you need? Admittedly it will have to be applied to each shard and will double the number of shards you have, that's the current limitation. At the end, though, you will have 4 shards when you used to have 2 and you can move them around to whatev

Re: Adding a new shard

2016-04-15 Thread Jay Potharaju
I found ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5025 which talks about sharding in solrcloud. Are there any plans to address this issue in near future? Can any of the users on the forum comment how they are handling this scenario in production? Thanks On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Jay

Adding a new shard

2016-04-15 Thread Jay Potharaju
Hi, I have an existing collection which has 2 shards, one on each node in the cloud. Now I want to split the existing collection into 3 shards because of increase in volume of data. And create this new shard on a new node in the solrCloud. I read about splitting a shard & creating a shard, but n