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On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:09 AM, thaihai <thai...@live.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> im little bit confussed about the new cloud functinalities.
>
> some questions:
>
> 1) its possible to use the old style solrreplication in solr4 (it means not
> using solrcloud. not starting with zk params) ?
>
Yes. If you use SolrCloud (the Zookeeper options), you don't need to
set up replication. But if you don't use SolrCloud it's just like it was
in 3.x.
> 2) in our production-environment we use solr 3.6 with solrreplication. we
> have 1 index server und 2 front (slave) server. one webapp use the both
> front-server for searching. another application push index-requests to the
> index-server. the app have queueing. so we dont must have HA here.
> if we make index (schema) changes or need to scratch and reeindex the whole
> index we have do following szenario:
> 1 remove replication for both front-server
> 2 scratch index server
> 3 reeindex index server
> 4 remove front 1 server from web app (at this point webapp use only front2
> for searches)
> 5 scratch front 1
> 6 enable front 1 replication
> 7 test front 1 server with searches over lucene admin ui on front 1
> 8 if all correct, enable front 1 for web app
> 9 done all with second slave at point 4
>
> so, my problem is to do the same functionality with solr cloud ?
>
> supposed, i have a 2 shared with replicas cluster. how can i make a complete
> re-eindex with no affects for the web app during the index process ? and i
> will check the rebuild before i approve the new index to the web app. ???
>
> any ideas or tips ?
>
> sorry for the bad english
>
>
I'm not entirely sure about this, meaning I haven't done it personally. But
I think you can do this...
Let's take the simple 2-shard case, each with a leader and replica.
Take one machine
out of each slice (or have two other machines you can use). Make your schema
changes and re-index to these non-user-facing machines. These are now a complete
new index of two shards.
Now point your user traffic to these new indexes (they are SolrCloud machines).
Now simply scratch your old machines and bring them up in the same
cluster as the
two new machines, and SolrCloud will automatically
1> assign them as replicas of your two shards appropriately
2> synchronize the index (actually, it'll automatically use old-style
replication
to do the bulk synchronization, you don't have to configure anything).
3> route searches to the new replicas as appropriate.
You really have to forget most of what you know about Solr replication when
moving to the Solr Cloud world, it's all magic <G>...
Best
Erick
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