You could write your own snitch: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Rule-based+Replica+Placement
Or, it would be more annoying, but you can always add/remove replicas manually and juggle things yourself after you create the initial collection. On 2/1/16, 8:42 AM, "Tom Evans" <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: >Hi all > >We're setting up a solr cloud cluster, and unfortunately some of our >VMs may be physically located on the same VM host. Is there a way of >ensuring that all copies of a shard are not located on the same >physical server? > >If they do end up in that state, is there a way of rebalancing them? > >Cheers > >Tom