Step 1: distribute processing We have 2 servers in which we'll run 2 SolrCloud instances on.
We'll define 2 shards so that both servers are busy for each request (improving response time of the request). Step 2: Failover We would now like to ensure that if either of the servers goes down (we're very unlucky with disks), that the other will be able to take over automatically. So we define 2 shards with a replication factor of 2. So we have: . Server 1: Shard 1, Replica 2 . Server 2: Shard 2, Replica 1 Question: But in SolrCloud, replicas are active right? So isn't it now possible that the load balancer will have Server 1 process *both* parts of a request, after all, it has both shards due to the replication, right?
