Cloud is very useful if you shard or need near real-time indexing. For non-sharded, non real time collections, I really like master/slave. The loose coupling between master and slave makes it trivial to scale out. Just clone a slave and fire it up.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Sep 26, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Jeff Courtade <courtadej...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We are considering a move to solr 7.x my question is Must we use cloud? We > currently do not and all is well. It seems all work is done referencing > cloud implementations. > > We have > > solr 4.3.0 master/slave > 14 servers RHEL 32 core 96 gb ram 7 shards one replica per shard > Total index is 333Gb around 47.5 GB per server. > APX 2million docs per shard > > > > -- > > Jeff Courtade > M: 240.507.6116
