Thanks Erick for the help. Appreciate it. Regards, Salman
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Absolutely. You haven't said which version of Solr you're using, > but there are several possibilities: > 1> create the collection with replicationFactor=1, then use the > ADDREPLICA command to specify exactly what node the replicas > for each shard are created on with the 'node' parameter. > 2> For recent versions of Solr, you can create a collection with _no_ > replicas and then ADDREPLICA as you choose. > > Best, > Erick > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Salman Ansari <salman.rah...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I believe the default behavior of creating collections distributed across > > shards through the following command > > > > http:// > > > [solrlocation]:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=CREATE&name=[collection_name]&numShards=2&replicationFactor=2&maxShardsPerNode=2&collection.configName=[configuration_name] > > > > is that Solr will create the collection as follows > > > > *shard1: *leader in server1 and replica in server2 > > *shard2:* leader in server2 and replica in server1 > > > > However, I have seen cases when running the above command that it creates > > both the leader and replica on the same server. > > > > Wondering if there is a way to control this behavior (I mean control > where > > the leader and the replica of each shard will reside)? > > > > Regards, > > Salman >
