Re: Vetting Our Architecture: 2 Repeaters and Slaves.

2011-04-14 Thread Lance Norskog
SAN vendors make high-priced super-fast shared file system hardware. They don't use NFS, usually they have a kernel drop-in file system. On 4/14/11, Parker Johnson wrote: > > Otis and Erick, > > Thanks for the responses and for thinking over my potential scenarios. > > The big draw for me on 2 r

Re: Vetting Our Architecture: 2 Repeaters and Slaves.

2011-04-14 Thread Parker Johnson
Otis and Erick, Thanks for the responses and for thinking over my potential scenarios. The big draw for me on 2 repeaters idea is that I can: 1. Maximize my hardware. I don't need a standby master. Instead, I can use the "second" repeater to field customer requests. 2. After the primary repea

Re: Vetting Our Architecture: 2 Repeaters and Slaves.

2011-04-12 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Otis Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ - Original Message > From: Parker Johnson > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" > Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 6:33:08 PM > Subject: Vetting Our Architect

Re: Vetting Our Architecture: 2 Repeaters and Slaves.

2011-04-12 Thread Erick Erickson
I think the repeaters are misleading you a bit here. The purpose of a repeater is usually to replicate across a slow network, say in a remote data center, then slaves at that center can get more timely updates. I don't think they add anything to your disaster recovery scenario. So I'll ignore repe

Vetting Our Architecture: 2 Repeaters and Slaves.

2011-04-12 Thread Parker Johnson
I am hoping to get some feedback on the architecture I've been planning for a medium to high volume site. This is my first time working with Solr, so I want to be sure what I'm planning isn't totally weird, unsupported, etc. We've got a a pair of F5 loadbalancers and 4 hosts. 2 of those hosts