I'm trying to build a SolrCloud with 4 leader/replica pairs. Starting my first host with this tomcat6.conf setting
CATALINA_OPTS="${CATALINA_OPTS} -DnumShards=4 -Dbootstrap_confdir=/data/solr/rockbands/conf -Dcollection.configName=rockbands_conf -DzkHost=zk1:2181,zk2:2181,zk3:2181" and then starting up host2, host3 and host4 in order I am expecting to see a cloud graph like this shard1 - host1 ip rockbands --> shard2 - host2 ip shard3 - host3 ip shard4 - host4 ip But the cloud graph shows this order after the first host is started shard1 - host1 ip rockbands --> shard4 shard2 shard3 Clearing out the /var/lib/zookeeper directory (excepting myid), restarting all zookeeper hosts and restarting all SOLR hosts does not help. I would like to know why I cannot get these in correct order. This is SOLR 4.2 -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SolrCloud-default-shard-assignment-order-not-correct-tp4190426.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.