On 10/1/2014 7:08 PM, S.L wrote: > Thanks ,load balancer seems to be the preferred solution here , I have a > topology where I have 6 Solr nodes that support 3 shards with a replication > factor of 2. > > Looks like it woul dbe better to use the load balancers for querying > only.The question, that I have is if I go the load balancer route should I > be listing all the six nodes in the load balancer or only the leaders as > identified by SolrCloud admin console?Would the load balancing solution > also incur any additional routing of requests between the individual nodes > of SolrCloud that would have not happened had the python Solr client been > zookeeper aware? > > Also for indexing ,which is not done from a Python client but is done using > Solrj, I will avoid the load balancers and do the indexing it via the > Zookeeper route.
If you were to send all your queries to just one server, it's my understanding that SolrCloud will load balance the actual work across the cloud. I have not verified this. For a load balancer, the minimum requirement would be to list two of the servers, but it's probably better to list them all. Leader designations can change, and I'm pretty sure you don't want to change your load balancer config just because the leader changed. If your 3 shards are using automatic document routing, then you can send updates to any machine in the cluster and they'll end up in the right place. Since you're using SolrJ for updates, this is probably not something you need to worry about. Thanks, Shawn
