SolrCloud is designed to provide a highly available, fault tolerant environment for distributing your indexed content and query requests across multiple servers. So what if we already have a standalone SOLR setup running on a single server and fulfilling ou search needs. As data grows or search traffic increases, vertically scaling that one single server is neither efficient nor cost effective. The answer comes as SOLR cloud and this document aims at providing an effective solution to migrating from standalone SOLR to a cluster with minimum effort. Step 1: Identify and setup SOLR and Zookeeper on required set of servers. Step 2: Start SOLR in cloud mode with the available Zookeeper configuration. Step 3: Rebuilding the cores. An efficient way to build the cores is to reuse our existing standalone SOLR setup.We can simply copy the existing SOLR core to the {solr.installation}/server/solr directory to start with. Copies of this SOLR core can be placed on all SOLR installati...
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