It's also important to remember that you don't need a particularly large or powerful node to run Zookeeper.
Charlie On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 23:57, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 10/14/2018 9:31 PM, Sourav Moitra wrote: > > My question does running separate zookeeper ensemble in the same boxes > > provides any advantage over using the solr embedded zookeeper ? > > The major disadvantage to having ZK embedded in Solr is this: If you > stop or restart the Solr process, part of your ZK ensemble goes down > too. It is vastly preferable to have it running as a separate process, > so that you can restart one of the services without causing disruption > in the other service. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >