Hi Shawn, OK, got that. Would shuffling or shifting the replicas bring any benfit or is it just wasted time?
-------- -------- -------- | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | shard1 | |r1| | | |r2| | | |r3| | | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | | | | | | | | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | shard2 | |r3| | | |r1| | | |r2| | | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | | | | | | | | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | shard3 | |r2| | | |r3| | | |r1| | | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | -------- -------- -------- host1 host2 host3 Regards Bernd Am 19.04.2018 um 14:43 schrieb Shawn Heisey: > On 4/19/2018 6:28 AM, Bernd Fehling wrote: >> How would you setup a SolrCloud an why? >> >> >> shard1 shard2 shard3 >> -------- -------- -------- >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | |r1| | | |r1| | | |r1| | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | | | | | | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | |r2| | | |r2| | | |r2| | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | | | | | | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | |r3| | | |r3| | | |r3| | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> -------- -------- -------- >> host1 host2 host3 > > I'm assuming that "r1" means replica1. > > If you set it up this way, you lose one third of the whole index (all > replicas of one shard) if *any* host goes down. All queries will fail in > that situation if shards.tolerant is not set. With shards.tolerant=true, you > would get partial results. > > So you have three machines that are all single points of failure. This setup > is a bad idea. > >> -------- -------- -------- >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> shard1 | |r1| | | |r2| | | |r3| | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | | | | | | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> shard2 | |r1| | | |r2| | | |r3| | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> | | | | | | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> shard3 | |r1| | | |r2| | | |r3| | >> | ---- | | ---- | | ---- | >> -------- -------- -------- >> host1 host2 host3 > > With this setup, when any host fails, you still have two working replicas of > all shards. If two hosts fail, you still have one working > replica. There are no single points of failure, as long as your clients are > able to direct queries to a working replica. SolrJ clients using > CloudSolrClient will do this automatically. Other clients may need a load > balancer sitting in front of the cloud. > > This is the recommended way of setting up replicas. > > Thanks, > Shawn >