Shawn, The 4.2 cloud graph ordering turned out not to be a problem, after the first startup of my 5 leaders and 5 replicas their shard assignments were 'fixed' in Zookeeper. I can now start them in any order and get the same graph.
<http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/file/n4202702/cloudview.jpg> I haven't gotten to 5.0 yet but will revisit your comments on that soon. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SolrCloud-default-shard-assignment-order-not-correct-tp4190426p4202702.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.