Mark, Is there a ticket around doing this? If the work/design was written down somewhere the community might have a better idea of how exactly we could help.
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Jamie Johnson wrote: > >> where specifically this is on the roadmap for SolrCloud. Anyone >> else have those details? > > I think we would like to do this sometime in the near future, but I don't > know exactly what time frame fits in yet. There is a lot to do still, and we > also need to get a 4 release of both Lucene and Solr out to users soon. It > could be in a point release later - but it's open source - it really just > depends on what people start doing it and get it done. I will say it's > something I'd like to see done. > > With what we have now, one option we have talked about in the past was to > just install multiple shards on a single machine - later you can start up a > replica on a new machine when you are ready to grow and kill the original > shard. > > i.e. you could startup 15 shards on a single machine, and then over time > migrate shards off nodes and onto new hardware. It's as simple as starting up > a new replica on the new hardware and removing the core on machines you want > to stop serving that shard from. This would let you expand to a 15 > shard/machine cluster with N replicas (scaling replicas is as simple as > starting a new node or stopping an old one). > > - Mark Miller > lucidimagination.com > > > > > > > > > > >
