Hi, Re: > we have suffered several issues which always seem quite problematic to resolve.
Try grabbing the latest version if you can. We identified a number of issues in older SolrCloud versions when working on large client setups with thousands of cores, but a lot of those issues have been fixes in the more recent versions. Otis -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Darren Lee <d...@amplience.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We have been using Solr Cloud (4.4) for ~ 6 months now. Functionally its > excellent but we have suffered several issues which always seem quite > problematic to resolve. > > I was wondering if anyone in the community can recommend good resources / > reading for setting up a highly scalable / highly reliable cluster. A lot > of what I see in the solr documentation is aimed at small setups or is > quite sparse. > > Dealing with topics like: > > * Capacity planning > > * Losing nodes > > * Voting panic > > * Recovery failure > > * Replication factors > > * Elasticity / Auto scaling / Scaling recipes > > * Exhibitor > > * Container configuration, concurrency limits, packet drop tuning > > * Increasing capacity without downtime > > * Scalable approaches to full indexing hundreds of millions of > documents > > * External health check vs CloudSolrServer > > * Separate vs local zookeeper > > * Benchmarks > > > Sorry, I know that's a lot to ask heh. We are going to run a project for a > month or so soon where we re-write all our run books and do deeper testing > on various failure scenarios and the above but any starting point would be > much appreciated. > > Thanks all, > Darren >