Anders, Take a look at Solr Replication. Essentially, you'll treat one as a master & one as a slave. Both master & slave can be used to serve traffic. If one of them goes down, the other can be used as a master for the interim.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication Sameer. -- http://measuredsearch.com On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Anders Kåre Olsen <a...@mail.dk> wrote: > > Hi Gora > > Thank you for your reply. > > We are planning on having a loadbalancer in front of our frontend servers. > > If I have two distinct solr indexes, how will I keep them synchronized? I > expect that one of the frontend servers will have the task of updating the > product repository on the e-commerce site. This server will then update the > local solr index after product update has finished. > > Is there an easy way that I can keep the two indexes synchronized without > solrcloud? > > Regards > Anders > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- From: Gora Mohanty > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:37 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: New to Solr - Need advice on clustering > > > 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 >
