Solr is a great search engine that Sitecore recommends. Solr is highly reliable and scalable, providing distributed indexing, replication and load-balanced querying, centralized configuration and more. In this article, I will explain how to setup Solr master/slave index replication and configure Sitecore in order to use it. Note: I assume that Solr is in place and Sitecore basic configuration is implemented as explain in Sitecore documentation ( https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/81/setting_up_and_maintaining/search_and_indexing/walkthrough_setting_up_solr ) First of all, let me list down the list of software versions that I used in this article Sitecore Experience Platform 8.1 rev. 160519 (8.1 Update-3) Solr 4.10.4 - recommended Solr version for Sitecore 8.1 What is Solr Index Replication? Index Replication distributes complete copies of a master index to one or more slave servers. The master server continues to manage updates to the index. All...
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