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Solr Operations, Scaling & Tuning
Solr Operations, Scaling & Tuning training is a 2-day instructor-led, hands-on classroom training course that teaches the skills necessary for installing and configuring Solr for production, including ZooKeeper and security. Attendees also learn various operational procedures and how to scale SolrCloud for best performance.
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Course Outline
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Overview |
Introduction to Search, Open Source and Apache Terminology, Solr features & capabilities Solr architecture overview; Scalability, Security, Connectors, Middleware Operations, Monitoring, Query analytics |
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Installation of ZooKeeper and SolrCloud |
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Cluster configuration, start, stop |
Configuring Ports, JVM/GC settings, ZK, Solr Home and SSL |
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Managing ZooKeeper with zkCli.sh |
ZK Structure, CLI options and operations, Changing and distributing Solr config |
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Backup / restore |
Using the Backup API, Restoring with the Collections API |
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Upgrading Solr |
Upgrading major versions, Upgrading minor versions, Upgrading SolrCloud Clusters |
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Securing Solr cluster with SSL |
Generate and install a certificate, Enabling authentication |
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Securing ZK operations |
Protecting ZK content with ACLs, CredentialProviders, ACLProviders |
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Authentication & Authorization |
Pluggable Security framework, Basic authentication, Rule-based authorization, Security API |
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Sizing basics |
Sizing for data volume, indexing rate, query performance and high availability |
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Feeding efficiency |
Feeding efficiency, commit strategy, MergeFactor, Query Warmup |
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Query & cache tuning |
Query tuning, cache tuning, cache warming |
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How to benchmark performance |
Performance testing basics, Indexing & Query Performance |
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Hardware and JVM options |
Hardware considerations, GC & Memory usage, Java VM options |
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Growing a running cluster |
Adding nodes, replicas/slaves and shards |
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Multiple Data Centers |
Understanding Cross Data Center Replication |
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for System Administrators and Developers who are involved in installing, operating, scaling and securing a Solr cluster.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with using a command line (console, shell) to execute basic commands.
- Some Linux and shell experience is a plus.
Format
Instructor-led lectures accompanied by hands-on lab exercises, examples, and tutorials.
Course Materials
Participants receive electronic copies of all slides and handouts, as well as links to other resources and code downloads.
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