Solr cloud setup with zookeeper in windows

[manohar c]

Hi,

Can you please provide me steps for set up multiple solr clouds with
zookeeper in windows machines. I am using solr 5.4.1 and zookeeper 3.4.6


Thanks and regards,
Manohar

[Shawn Heisey]

Post by manohar c
Can you please provide me steps for set up multiple solr clouds with
zookeeper in windows machines. I am using solr 5.4.1 and zookeeper 3.4.6

Solr doesn't come with an installation method for Windows. Although
Solr will run on Windows, and we include a start script for Windows,
exactly how to install Solr and run it at boot time is left up to the
user. We do have a lot of interest for including a Windows installation
option, but none has been written yet. There is an enhancement issue
already filed, with some ideas:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7105

We *will* get there, it is just going to take some time.

Because Solr is an open source project, most of the people associated
with the project also prefer open source operating systems. Those
operating systems are free, unlike Windows, which adds a significant
cost to each server that runs it. The *client* operating systems from
Microsoft are typically cheaper, but Microsoft has intentionally
crippled the client operating systems so they don't run server workloads
very well. It is my opinion that Linux is a far better environment for
Solr than Windows Server, even if you ignore the cost considerations.
That's all I'm going to say on that subject -- the "Windows vs. Open
Source" debate usually devolves into a flamewar.

A number of people around the Internet have described ways to run Solr
5.x as a service on Windows.

Here's one of them:

http://www.norconex.com/how-to-run-solr5-as-a-service-on-windows/

There should also be instructions out there for running zookeeper as a
service. Although Solr does have the ability to run with zookeeper
embedded, we strongly recommend that you use an external zookeeper for
production.

Zookeeper is a separate program from Solr. It is included in Solr, but
we cannot provide full support for it.

Thanks,
Shawn

[Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo]

I have used the NSSM method from the link mentioned by Shawn to set up
zookeeper as a service. Just follow the same steps and point it to the
zookeeper startup script, but leave the Arugment field empty.

Regards,
Edwin

Post by Shawn Heisey

Post by manohar c
Can you please provide me steps for set up multiple solr clouds

with

Post by manohar c
zookeeper in windows machines. I am using solr 5.4.1 and zookeeper 3.4.6

Solr doesn't come with an installation method for Windows. Although
Solr will run on Windows, and we include a start script for Windows,
exactly how to install Solr and run it at boot time is left up to the
user. We do have a lot of interest for including a Windows installation
option, but none has been written yet. There is an enhancement issue
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7105
We *will* get there, it is just going to take some time.
Because Solr is an open source project, most of the people associated
with the project also prefer open source operating systems. Those
operating systems are free, unlike Windows, which adds a significant
cost to each server that runs it. The *client* operating systems from
Microsoft are typically cheaper, but Microsoft has intentionally
crippled the client operating systems so they don't run server workloads
very well. It is my opinion that Linux is a far better environment for
Solr than Windows Server, even if you ignore the cost considerations.
That's all I'm going to say on that subject -- the "Windows vs. Open
Source" debate usually devolves into a flamewar.
A number of people around the Internet have described ways to run Solr
5.x as a service on Windows.
http://www.norconex.com/how-to-run-solr5-as-a-service-on-windows/
There should also be instructions out there for running zookeeper as a
service. Although Solr does have the ability to run with zookeeper
embedded, we strongly recommend that you use an external zookeeper for
production.
Zookeeper is a separate program from Solr. It is included in Solr, but
we cannot provide full support for it.
Thanks,
Shawn