Did you have a look at the presentations from the recent SolrRevolution? E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxRROble76A&list=PLU6n9Voqu_1FM8nmVwiWWDRtsEjlPqhgP
Regards, Alex. ---- Sign up for my Solr resources newsletter at http://www.solr-start.com/ On 11 February 2015 at 15:32, Matt Kuiper <matt.kui...@issinc.com> wrote: > I am starting a new project and one of the requirements is that Solr must > scale to handle increasing load (both search performance and index size). > > My understanding is that one way to address search performance is by adding > more replicas. > > I am more concerned about handling a growing index size. I have already been > given some good input on this topic and am considering a shard splitting > approach, but am more focused on a rebalancing approach that includes > defining many shards up front and then moving these existing shards on to new > Solr servers as needed. Plan to experiment with this approach first. > > Before I got too deep, I wondered if anyone has any tips or warnings on these > approaches, or has scaled Solr in a different manner. > > Thanks, > Matt