Hello Greg, we run Zookeeper not on dedicated Zookeeper machines, but rather on admin nodes in search application clusters (that makes two instances), plus on at least one more node that does not have much load (e.g., a crawling node). Also, as long as you don't stuff too much data into Zookeeper yourself, the memory footprint of 2 GB seems to be a bit generous to support SolrCloud.
Best regards, --Jürgen On 04.11.2014 20:23, Greg Solovyev wrote: > Thanks for the answers Erick. I can see that this is a significant effort and > I am certainly not asking the community to undertake this work. I was > actually going to take a stab at it myself. Regarding $$ savings from not > requiring ZK my assumption is that ZK in production demands a dedicated host > and requires 2GB RAM/instance while Consul runs on less than 100MB > RAM/instance. So, for ISPs, BSP and large enterprise deployments, the savings > come would from reduced resource requirements. > > Thanks, > Greg > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards/Cordialement vôtre/Atentamente/С уважением *i.A. Jürgen Wagner* Head of Competence Center "Intelligence" & Senior Cloud Consultant Devoteam GmbH, Industriestr. 3, 70565 Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +49 6151 868-8725, Fax: +49 711 13353-53, Mobile: +49 171 864 1543 E-Mail: juergen.wag...@devoteam.com <mailto:juergen.wag...@devoteam.com>, URL: www.devoteam.de <http://www.devoteam.de/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing Board: Jürgen Hatzipantelis (CEO) Address of Record: 64331 Weiterstadt, Germany; Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Darmstadt HRB 6450; Tax Number: DE 172 993 071
