Hi, We just published a post on this topic the other day, have a look:
http://blog.sematext.com/2011/09/14/solr-digest-spring-summer-2011-part-2-solr-cloud-and-near-real-time-search/ Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ >________________________________ >From: Miguel Coxo <mfc...@gmail.com> >To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 1:45 PM >Subject: SolrCloud state > >Hi there. > >I'm starting a new project using solr and i would like to know if solr is >able to setup a cluster with fault tolerance. > >I'm setting up an environment with two shards. Each shard should have a >replica. > >What i would like to know is if a shard master fails will the replica be >"promoted" to a master. Or will it remain search only and only recover when >a new master is setup. > >Also how is the document indexing distributed by the shards? Can i add a new >shard dynamically? > >All the best, Miguel Coxo. > > >
