I am starting the planning stages of moving from a single instance of solr 8 to a solrcloud implementation.
Currently I have a 148GB index on a single dedicated server w 96gb ram @ 16 cores /2.4ghz ea. + SSD disk. The search is fast but obviously the index size is greater than the physical memory, which to my understanding is not a good thing. I have a lot of experience with single instance but none with solrcloud. I have 3 machines (other than my main 1) with the exact same hardware 96gb * 3 essentially which should be plenty. My issue is that im not sure where to go to learn how to set this up, how many shards, how many replicas, etc and would rather hire somebody or something (detailed video or document) to guide me through the process, and make decisions along the way...For example I think a shard is a piece of the index... but I dont even know how to decide how many replicas or what they are ..... Thanks everyone. -Craig
