Jamey, You will need a load balancer on the front end to direct traffic into one of your SolrCore entry points. It doesn't matter, technically, which one though you will find benefits to narrowing traffic to fewer (for purposes of better cache management).
Internally SolrCloud will round-robin distribute requests to other shards once a query begins execution. But you do need an entry point externally to be defined through your load balancer. Hope this is useful! Jason On May 30, 2013, at 12:48 PM, James Dulin <jdu...@crelate.com> wrote: > Working to setup SolrCloud in Windows Azure. I have read over the solr Cloud > wiki, but am a little confused about some of the deployment options. I am > attaching an image for what I am thinking we want to do. 2 VM’s that will > have 2 shards spanning across them. 4 Nodes total across the two machines, > and a zookeeper on each VM. I think this is feasible, but, I am a little > confused about how each node knows how to respond to requests (do I need a > load balancer in front, or can we just reference the “collection” etc.) > > > > Thanks! > > Jamey > >
