Hi,

I'm interested in setting up a solr cluster where each machine [at least
initially] hosts a separate shard of a big index [too big to sit on the
machine].  I'm able to put a cloud together by telling it that I have (to
start out with) 4 nodes, and then starting up nodes on 3 machines pointing
at the zkInstance.  I'm able to load my sharded data onto each machine
individually and it seems to work.

My concern is that it's not fault tolerant:  if one of the non-zookeeper
machines falls over, the whole cluster won't work.  Also, I can't create a
shard with more data, and have it work within the existing cloud.

I tried using -DshardId=shard5 [on an existing 4-shard cluster], but it
just started replicating, which doesn't seem right.

Are there ways around this?

Thanks,
Ranjan Bagchi

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