I have used the NSSM method from the link mentioned by Shawn to set up zookeeper as a service. Just follow the same steps and point it to the zookeeper startup script, but leave the Arugment field empty.
Regards, Edwin On 23 March 2016 at 22:02, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > 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 > >