: Unfortunately, this is all 5.1 and instructs me to run the 'start from : scratch' process.
a) checkout the left nav of any ref guide page webpage which has a link to "Older Versions of this Guide (PDF)" b) i'm not entirely sure i understand what you're asking, but i'm guessing you mean... * you have a fully functional individual instance of Solr, with a single core * you only want to run that one single instance of the Solr process * you want tha single solr process to be a "SolrCould" of one "node", but replace your single "core" with a collection that is divided into 8 shards. * presumably: you don't care about replication since you are only trying to run one node. what you want to look into (in the 4.10 ref guide) is how to "bootstrap" a SolrCloud instance from a non-SolrCloud node -- ie: startup zk, tell solr to take the configs from your single core and uploda them to zk as a configset, and register that single core as a collection. That should give you a single instance of solrcloud, with a single collection, consisting of one shard (your original core) Then you should be able to use the "SPLITSHARD" command to split your single shard into 2 shards, and then split them again, etc... (i don't think you can split directly to 8-sub shards with a single command) FWIW: unless you no longer have access to the original data, it would almost certainly be a lot easier to just start with a clean install of Solr in cloud mode, then create a collection with 8 shards, then re-index your data. -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
