Migrating configuration from master-slave to SolrCloud
After the release of Apache Solr 4.0, many users wanted to leverage SolrCloud-distributed indexing and querying capabilities. SolrCloud is also very useful when it comes to handling collections as you can create them on-the-fly, add replicas, and split already created shards, and this is only an example of the possibilities given by SolrCloud. Now, for releases after Solr 4.0, people are going for SolrCloud even more frequently. It's not hard to upgrade your current master-slave configuration to work on SolrCloud, but there are some things you need to take care of. With the help of the following recipe, you will be able to easily upgrade your cluster.
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