On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Jamie Johnson wrote: > Mark, > is the recommendation now to have each solr instance be a separate core in > solr cloud? I had thought that the core name was by default the collection > name? Or are you saying that although they have the same name they are > separate because they are in different JVMs?
By default, the collection name is set to the core name. This is really just for convenience when you are getting started. If gives you a default collection name of collection1 because the default SolrCore name is collection1, and each SolrCore on each instance is addressable as /solr/collection1. You can certainly have core names be whatever you want and explicitly pass it's collection. In the case, the url for each would be different - though I think there is an open JIRA issue about making that nicer - so that you can look up the right core even if you pass the collection name or something. - Mark Miller lucidimagination.com
