You can control simply with the CoreAdmin api - the core is created at the location of whatever url you use…simply fire the creates at whatever nodes you want the collection to live on.
The collections api also takes a list of nodes names to use optionally. - Mark On May 16, 2013, at 7:34 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to control on which node(s) a collection should be placed? > > I've looked at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud and > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin and have searched the ML > archives, but couldn't find any mentions of that. > > Use case: > * Want to use SolrCloud for large indices that I want to shard and replicate > * Have a number of smaller indices that need to live in the same > cluster, but that I don't want to shard - queries are fast when > executed against the whole index being on a single server, and they > use join and pivot faceting, neither of which works with sharded > indices > > I have 30+ such non-shardable indices of varying sizes and I want to > make sure they are distributed over all cluster nodes nice and evenly. > I'm assuming there is no better way than to manually control > placement of my 1-shard collections (iffff that's even doable), but if > there is a better way, I'm all eyeballs! > > Thanks, > Otis > -- > Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html > Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html
