Hello - a simple load balancer will do just fine. Or more sophisticated tools
such as Varnish, HAProxy or Nginx, which we use. A hardware loadbalancer would
obviously also do the job
Markus
-----Original message-----
> From:Andrej van der Zee <andrejvander...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday 18th December 2015 13:20
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Load-balancing Solr instances
>
> Hi,
>
> Could someone please inform me about best practices when load-balancing
> queries over Solr instances? We will have many shards each with multiple
> replications.
>
> I understand that sending my request to one particular Solr instance will
> be routed appropriately, but requests will still be sent to this single
> instance. This instance might be busy routing while it should serve his
> core. Moreover, it might even go down.
>
> Would it make sense to have multiple "dummy" Solr instances that only route
> requests and do not serve any core, in order to minimize internal routing?
>
> Or, would it be better to install a reverse proxy in front of the Solr
> Cloud? Moreover, would it make sense to update the load-balancer
> dynamically watching Zookeeper, in order to minimize internal routing of
> requests?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrej
>
