On 3/23/2016 6:30 AM, manohar c wrote: > Can you please provide me steps for set up multiple solr clouds with > zookeeper in windows machines. I am using solr 5.4.1 and zookeeper 3.4.6
Solr doesn't come with an installation method for Windows. Although Solr will run on Windows, and we include a start script for Windows, exactly how to install Solr and run it at boot time is left up to the user. We do have a lot of interest for including a Windows installation option, but none has been written yet. There is an enhancement issue already filed, with some ideas: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7105 We *will* get there, it is just going to take some time. Because Solr is an open source project, most of the people associated with the project also prefer open source operating systems. Those operating systems are free, unlike Windows, which adds a significant cost to each server that runs it. The *client* operating systems from Microsoft are typically cheaper, but Microsoft has intentionally crippled the client operating systems so they don't run server workloads very well. It is my opinion that Linux is a far better environment for Solr than Windows Server, even if you ignore the cost considerations. That's all I'm going to say on that subject -- the "Windows vs. Open Source" debate usually devolves into a flamewar. A number of people around the Internet have described ways to run Solr 5.x as a service on Windows. Here's one of them: http://www.norconex.com/how-to-run-solr5-as-a-service-on-windows/ There should also be instructions out there for running zookeeper as a service. Although Solr does have the ability to run with zookeeper embedded, we strongly recommend that you use an external zookeeper for production. Zookeeper is a separate program from Solr. It is included in Solr, but we cannot provide full support for it. Thanks, Shawn
