Re: General question about high availability.

2023-01-17 Thread dmitri maziuk
On 2023-01-17 1:15 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: ...  It is a good idea when setting up load balancing to have a virtual IP address.  Two programs for setting that up are ucarp and pacemaker.  I'm sure there are more options. Not really. There used to be heartbeat but it was deprecated, gone, and bu

Re: General question about high availability.

2023-01-17 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 1/17/23 10:05, Matthew Castrigno wrote: What is the best approach for high availability for my deployed SOLR instance? Solr clusters seems to be for scaling, which is not my concern as my use case is a simple site search. This SOLR instance is expected to serve about 150K requests per month

Re: General question about high availability.

2023-01-17 Thread dmitri maziuk
On 2023-01-17 11:05 AM, Matthew Castrigno wrote: What is the best approach for high availability for my deployed SOLR instance? Solr clusters seems to be for scaling, which is not my concern as my use case is a simple site search. We used to have a 3-node cluster behind a L2 proxy plus a deve

Re: General question about high availability.

2023-01-17 Thread Dave
Put an nginx front for about three solr servers that does a drop down failover. You always want one to be the primary for caching and that few searches, then drop down to the other couple on failure > On Jan 17, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Matthew Castrigno wrote: > >  > What is the best approach for

Re: General question about high availability.

2023-01-17 Thread Markus Jelsma
Hello Matthew, Solr cloud is not only for scaling (add more shards), but also for availability (add more replicas). As long as you place the replicas on different physical machines, or VMs on different physical machines, or even some VMs in different DCs, you are as high available as you need to

General question about high availability.

2023-01-17 Thread Matthew Castrigno
What is the best approach for high availability for my deployed SOLR instance? Solr clusters seems to be for scaling, which is not my concern as my use case is a simple site search. This SOLR instance is expected to serve about 150K requests per month. The documents are relatively small with ab