Start by simply experimenting with 2 shards and 2 replicas - 4 nodes. And just run zk on the nodes themselves for simple experiments. It's better to deploy zk separate from the Solr nodes, but for simple testing it shouldn't matter. Get experience with SolrCloud using a simple configuration before going wild.

You can also have more than 2 shards and put more than one shard on a node to allow for easier expansion.

-- Jack Krupansky

-----Original Message----- From: Abhishek tiwari
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 8:01 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Solr cloud Some basic questions

Hi All,

I would like to move single instance Solr setup to solr cloud  as my data
is growing to many millions.

How should i proceed .

a) should i use  the architecture  single machine , multiple shard or
multiple machine , multiple shard ?

b) In what basis i should create shard and replicas

c) Zookeeper installation should be separate or like wiki inbuilt .

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