Sitecore Solr Loadbalancing

Question

I am working on a sitecore application where I need to configure a 3 node cluster with a solr configured on 2 servers and a zoo keeper on all 3 servers. So I'm looking for some solution to load instances of solr balance solr. We are working on azure windows 2012 vms. The front of the application is built on top of the siteoCore website, and we use IIS as our web server. So, what would be the best option if not for the third party load balancing, how to use the internal load balancer "LBHttpSolrServer" or the external azure, providing load balancing? Please offer me, but I can’t balance the load of a third party. We have 5 CD servers. Can I upgrade to a server farm using the application request routing module? So where do I need to install this on CD servers or on SOLR servers?

Answer 1

Based on all the information you provide, the best approach is to deploy LBHttpSolrServer as a load balanced solution.

More information can be found here: LBHttpSolrServer

Also, note that it even works as a Windows service, it must have a path to an executable file that runs either Solr or Apache TomCat behind the scenes.

Thanks,

Vinicius