Thanks for the advice Erick. Would you know what the underlying logic doing the shard distribution is? Does it depend on the order in which each node joined the cluster or does the collections api logic actually checks the node host IP to ensure even distribution?
Best Regards, Isabelle On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > They should be pretty well distributed by default, but if you want to > take manual control, you can use the createNodeSet param on CREATE > (with replication factor of 1) and then ADDREPLICA with the node param > to put replicas for shards exactly where you want. > > Best, > Erick >