Re: Planning ahead for Solr Cloud and Scaling

2014-07-09 Thread Timothy Potter
Hi Zane, re 1: as an alternative to shard splitting, you can just overshard the collection from the start and then migrate existing shards to new hardware as needed. The migrate can happen online, see collection API ADDREPLICA. Once the new replica is online on the new hardware, you can unload the

Planning ahead for Solr Cloud and Scaling

2014-07-08 Thread Zane Rockenbaugh
I'm working on a product hosted with AWS that uses Elastic Beanstalk auto-scaling to good effect and we are trying to set up similar (more or less) runtime scaling support with Solr. I think I understand how to set this up, and wanted to check I was on the right track. We currently run 3 cores on