Benson: Are you trying to run independent invocations of Solr for every node? Otherwise, you'd just want to create a 8 shard collection with maxShardsPerNode set to 8 (or more I guess).
Michael Della Bitta Senior Software Engineer o: +1 646 532 3062 appinions inc. “The Science of Influence Marketing” 18 East 41st Street New York, NY 10017 t: @appinions <https://twitter.com/Appinions> | g+: plus.google.com/appinions <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112002776285509593336/112002776285509593336/posts> w: appinions.com <http://www.appinions.com/> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > With so much of the site shifted to 5.0, I'm having a bit of trouble > finding what I need, and so I'm hoping that someone can give me a push > in the right direction. > > On a big multi-core machine, I want to set up a configuration with 8 > (or perhaps more) nodes treated as shards. I have some very particular > solrconfig.xml and schema.xml that I need to use. > > Could some kind person point me at a relatively step-by-step layout? > This is all on Linux, I'm happy to explicitly run Zookeeper. >