Re: loading zookeeper data

2016-07-25 Thread Erick Erickson
A Collection is simply the "SolrCloud" way of thinking about a logical index that incorporates shards, replication factors changing topology of where the replicas live and the like. In your case it's synonymous with your core (master and slaves). Since there's no master or slave role in SolrCloud,

Re: loading zookeeper data

2016-07-24 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
Thanks so much for your reply. That's clarified a few things for me. Erick Erickson wrote: > Where SolrCloud becomes compelling is when you _do_ need to have > shard, and deal with HA/DR. I'm not using shards since the indicies are small enough, however I use master/slave with 6 nodes for two

Re: loading zookeeper data

2016-07-24 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
Thanks so much for your reply. That's clarified a few things for me. Erick Erickson wrote: > Where SolrCloud becomes compelling is when you _do_ need to have > shard, and deal with HA/DR. I'm not using shards since the indicies are small enough, however I use master/slave with 6 nodes for two

Re: loading zookeeper data

2016-07-22 Thread Erick Erickson
bq: Zookeeper seems a step backward. For stand-alone Solr, I tend to agree it's a bit awkward. But as Shawn says, there's no _need_ to run Zookeeper with a more recent Solr. Running Solr without Zookeeper is perfectly possible, we call that "stand alone". And, if you have no need for sharding

Re: loading zookeeper data

2016-07-22 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
On 22/07/2016 5:22pm, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > But then what? In the production cluster it seems I then need to > > 1. Grab the latest configuration bundle for each core and unpack them > 2. Launch Java > 3. Execute the Solr jars (from the production server since it must be the > right

Re: loading zookeeper data

2016-07-22 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 7/22/2016 1:22 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > I'm not new to Solr, but I'm upgrading from Solr 4 to 5 and needing to > use the new Zookeeper configuration requirement. It is adding a lot of > extra complexity to our deployment and I want to check that we are > doing it right. Zookeeper is