Questions about Replication Factor on solrcloud

[Lisandro Montaño]

Hi all,

 

I’m currently working on deploying a solrcloud distribution in centos
machines and wanted to have more guidance about Replication Factor
configuration.

 

I have configured two servers with solrcloud over tomcat and a third server
as zookeeper. I have configured successfully and have one server with
collection1 available and the other with collection1_Shard1_Replica1.

 

My questions are:

 

-          Can I have 1 shard and 2 replicas on two machines? What are the
limitations or considerations to define this?

-          How does replica works? (there is not too much info about it)

-          When I import data on collection1 it works properly, but when I
do it in collection1_Shard1_Replica1 it fails. Is that an expected behavior?
(Maybe if I have a better definition of replica’s I will understand it
better)

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help and guidance.

 

Regards,

Lisandro Montano