On 26 November 2013 01:44, Anders Kåre Olsen <a...@mail.dk> wrote: > Hi Solr-users > > I’m trying to setup Solr for search and indexing on the project I’m working > on. > > My project is a e-commerce B2B solution. We are planning on setting up 2 > frontend servers for the website, and I was planning on installing Solr on > these servers. We are using Windows Server 2012 for the frontend servers. > > We are not expecting a huge load on the servers, so we expect these 2 servers > to be adequate to handle both the website and search index. > > I have been looking at SolrCloud and ZooKeeper. Howver I have read that you > need at least 3 ZooKeepers in an ensamble, and I only have 2 servers. > > I need to handle the situation where one of the servers crashes, so I need > both servers to have a Solr index. [...]
If you do not want to get into SolrCloud, a simpler solution might be a HTTP load balancer in front of the two Solr instances. Hardware load balancers are better, but more expensive. A software load balancer like haproxy should meet your needs. Regards, Gora
