Thanks Mark. > The collections api also takes a list of nodes names to use optionally.
I just tried looking for this, but I don't see it on http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud - either I need new glasses or it's not mentioned there? Thanks, Otis -- Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html SOLR Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >