Hi Thanks for the information.
Once the collection is created how do you drop such as the schema.xml to the folder locations, I have used rsync -av search_api_solr/solr-conf/5.x /var/solr/data/search_shard2_replica1/ on one instance but I can’t see the files being replicated between the instances. Regards Per > On 11 Dec 2017, at 14:57, Fengtan <fengtan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Drupal can talk to a SolrCloud cluster the same way it talks to a > standalone Solr server, i.e. by using the Search API suite > https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api > > You will have to create the collection yourself on Solr though (Drupal will > not do it for you). > > If you want to take advantage of SolrCloud's fault tolerance capabilities > then you may have to: > * either use an external load balancer in front of your SolrCloud cluster > * or implement a smart client in Drupal -- I opened this ticket some time > ago https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr/issues/2858645 > > > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Per Qvindesland <p...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I have a solr cloud with zookeeper 3.4.10 and solr 5.4.1, i on 3 centos 7 >> instances in AWS, I intend to use the cluster for Drupal 7 search. >> >> At the moment we have 2 instances running in production with each having >> their own solr installation (no cloud) but I would like to improve the >> redundancy and maybe even the performance, I followed >> http://www.francelabs.com/blog/tutorial-deploying- >> solrcloud-6-on-amazon-ec2/ to get the cloud up and running but I need >> some guidance on how to add in a new shard/collection so I can point the >> drupal instances to the new solr cloud, does anyone have any information on >> how to do this? as you can see i have no experience with solr cloud :) >> >> Regards >> Per >> >> >> >>