I actually never had a problem with the index being larger than the memory for a standalone instance, but the entire index is on an SSD at least one my end
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 3:43 PM Erie Data Systems <eriedata...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
