Hi solr experts, I am building out a solr cluster with this configuration
3 external zookeeprs 15 solr instances (nodes) 3 shards I need to start out with 3 nodes and remaining 12 nodes would be added to cluster. I am able to create a collection with 3 shards. This process works fine using collections create API. The core directory is automatically created by solr - multishard_shard1_replica1, multishard_shard2_replica1 etc with core.properties file containing shard and replica info However, when I add new machines running solr and pointing to this zk cluster, they do not get added as replicas. The new machines have solr.home directory available but no core specific directories beneath it since I want solr to auto add as replica. If I create the directories manually beneath solr.home named multishard_shard2_replica2, multishard_shard2_replica3 and so on and provide core.properties file, they are correctly added to the cloud as replicas. Is there a way to automatically do it? since solr documentation says so.. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Nodes%2C+Cores%2C+Clusters+and+Leaders in Leaders and Replicas section Thanks, Susmit
