On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Robert Brown <r...@intelcompute.com> wrote: > So I setup a new solr server to point to my existing ZK configs. > > When going to the admin UI on this new server I can see the shards/replica's > of the existing collection, and can even query it, even tho this new server > has no cores on it itself. > > Is this all expected behaviour? > > Is there any performance gain with what I have at this precise stage? The > extra server certainly makes it appear i could balance more load/requests, > but I guess the queries are just being forwarded on to the servers with the > actual data? > > Am I correct in thinking I can now create a new collection on this host, and > begin to build up a new cluster? and they won't interfere with each other > at all? > > Also, that I'll be able to see both collections when using the admin UI > Cloud page on any of the servers in either collection? >
I'm confused slightly: SolrCloud is a (singular) cluster of servers, storing all of its state and configuration underneath a single zookeeper path. The cluster contains collections. Collections are tied to a particular config set within the cluster. Collections are made up of 1 or more shards. Each shard is a core, and there are 1 or more replicas of each core. You can add more servers to the cluster, and then create a new collection with the same config as an existing collection, but it is still part of the same cluster. Of course, you could think of a set of servers within a cluster as a "logical" cluster if it just serves particular collection, but "cluster" to me would be all of the servers within the same zookeeper tree, because that is where cluster state is maintained. Cheers Tom
