Hi, got a nice talk on IRC about this. The right thing to do is to start with a clean SOLR cluster (no cores) and then create all the proper collections with the Collections API.
Ugo On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Jeff Wartes <jwar...@whitepages.com> wrote: > > Please note that although the article talks about the ADDREPLICA command, > that feature is coming in Solr 4.8, so don¹t be confused if you can¹t find > it yet. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5130 > > > > On 3/20/14, 7:45 AM, "Erick Erickson" <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >You might find this useful: > >http://heliosearch.org/solrcloud-assigning-nodes-machines/ > > > > > >It uses the collections API to create your collection with zero > >nodes, then shows how to assign your leaders to specific > >machines (well, at least specify the nodes the leaders will > >be created on, it doesn't show how to assign, for instance, > >shard1 to nodeX).... > > > >It also shows a way to assign specific replicas on specific nodes > >to specific shards, although as Mark says this is a transitional > >technique. I know there's an "addreplica" command in the works > >for the collections API that should make this easier, but that's > >not released yet. > > > >Best, > >Erick > > > > > >On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Ugo Matrangolo > ><ugo.matrang...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I would like some advice about the best way to bootstrap from scratch a > >> SolrCloud cluster housing at least two collections with different > >> sharding/replication setup. > >> > >> Going through the docs/'Solr In Action' book what I have sees so far is > >> that there is a way to bootstrap a SolrCloud cluster with sharding > >> configuration using the: > >> > >> -DnumShards=2 > >> > >> but this (afaik) works only for a single collection. What I need is a > >>way > >> to deploy from scratch a SolrCloud cluster housing (e.g.) two > >>collections > >> Foo and Bar where Foo has only one shard and is replicated everywhere > >>while > >> Bar has three shards and ,again, is replicated. > >> > >> I can't find a config file where to put this sharding plan and I'm > >>starting > >> to think that the only way to do this is after the deploy using the > >> Collections API. > >> > >> Is there a best approach way to do this ? > >> > >> Ugo > >
