Did you clear the data dir for all 3 zk's? If not, you will find ghosts coming back to haunt you :)
It's often easier to clear zk programmatically - for example it's one call from the cmd line zkcli script. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud#Command_Line_Util - Mark On Feb 9, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Rene Nederhand <r...@nederhand.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I am experimenting with SolrCloud (v. 4.1) and everything seems to work > fine. > > Now I would like to restart with a clean environment, but I cannot get rid > of all the collections, shards and cores I have created. > > What I did: > - Closed down all Zookeeper servers (I have an ensemble of 3) and Solr > servers (also 3) > - I have deleted the "collections" and "configs" from zookeeper; > - I deleted the data directory (version-2) from zookeeper > - I deleted my solr home (with all data files) > - Edited Solr.xml so there is no reference to instances anymore. > > When I restart, I get an error about no existing SolrCores, but after > adding a new config, collection and one SolrCore I see a graph of all > previous existing shards/cores. > > How can I go back to a clean state? How to remove these collections/shards? > > Thanks for helping. > > Rene