Re: SOLR Master-Slave Repeater with Load balancer

2013-12-04 Thread Walter Underwood
Erick is right, you have been put in a terrible position. You need to get agreement, in writing, that it is OK for search to go down when one server is out of service. This might be for scheduled maintenance or even a config update. When one server is down, search is down, period. This requirem

Re: SOLR Master-Slave Repeater with Load balancer

2013-12-04 Thread Erick Erickson
bq: but we have limitation on the number of servers that we can use due to budget concerns (limit is 2) really, really, really push back to your project managers on this. So what you need 3 machines for a ZooKeeper quorum? The needs of ZK are quite light, they don't need a powerful machine. Your

Re: SOLR Master-Slave Repeater with Load balancer

2013-12-04 Thread kondamudims
Hi Erick, Thanks a lot for your explanation. We initially considered Solr Cloud but we have limitation on the number of servers that we can use due to budget concerns (limit is 2) Solr Cloud requires minimum 3. I have tried out the solution you suggested and so far its going well and we are not doi

Re: SOLR Master-Slave Repeater with Load balancer

2013-11-27 Thread Erick Erickson
Yes. This is going to hurt you a lot. The intent of M/S is that you should be indexing to one, and only one machine, the master. All slaves pull their indexes from the master. Frankly I don't know quite what will happen in the configuration you're talking about. I strongly recommend you do not do t