This should "just work" _if_ 1> you have a ZooKeeper quorum running somewhere. Obviously NOT on the machine you take down. 2> machine 1 hosts both shards and machine 2 hosts both shards. It doesn't matter where the leaders are, but to get complete search results you must have at least one replica for each shard running.
Best, Erick On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Amit Jha <shanuu....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to create 2 shard cluster with shard replica of a collection. For > this set up I used two physical machines. In this set up I have installed 1 > shard and replica in Machine A and another 1 shard and 1 replica in Machine > B. > Now when I stop both shard and replica on machine B. I was not able to > perform search. I would like to know how can I set up a fail safe cluster > using two machines? > I would like achieve the use case where if machine goes down, Still I can > serve the search request. I have a constraint where I can not add more > machine. Is there any alternative to achieve the use case? > > Regards > Amit
