On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Brian Whitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 18, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Otis Gospodnetic >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, as far as I know, what Brian said is correct. Also, as far as I >>> know, there is nothing that gracefully handles problematic Solr instances >>> during distributed search. >> >> Right... we punted that issue to a load balancer (which assumes that >> you have more than one copy of each shard). > > > Can you explain how you have a LB handling shards? Do you put a separate LB > in front of each group of replica shards?
A single load balancer should be fine... each shard has it's own VIP which maps to 2 or more solr servers with a replica of that shard. -Yonik
