
SinglenodetoMultinode
WhenanarchitecturechangesfromasingleGSAtomultipleGSAs(eg.over100Mdocuments,requiring
twoG500appliancesinsteadofone),DistributedCrawlandServewillneedtobeconfigured.Asaresult,the
searchindexwilleitherneedtobereindexedonthenewarchitecture,ormigrated.Inthisscenario,when
DistributedCrawlandServeisenabled,theMasterGSAnodewilldistributetheindexevenlyacrossthe
GSAsconfiguredinthemultinodeGSAnetwork.
Multinodetomultinode
WhenanexistingDistributedCrawlandServearchitectureismodified(eg.usingGB9009sandmovingfrom
60Mto90Mdocuments,requiringthreeGB9009appliancesinsteadoftwo),thenewGSAcanbeaddedas
anewshard/nodetothearchitecture,andtheentiresearchindexwillberedistributedevenlyacrossall
GSAs.Forexample,if54MdocumentshavebeenindexedacrosstwoGSAs,andathird30MGSAis
addedtothenetworkasanewshard,theindexwillberedistributedandeachGSAwillhave18Mdocs.
MigratingwithexistingmirroredGSAs
ThefollowingscenariosdescribedetailedapproachestomigratingtonewsearchapplianceswhereGSA
Mirroringisalreadyinuseonexistingappliances.
ScenarioA:Newappliancesareofthesamemodelandsoftwareversion
Inascenariowherenewappliancesareofthesamemodelandsoftwareversion,mirroringcanusedto
migratetheindexandconfigurationstoanewappliance,whichisthenusedasthemasterapplianceofa
newGSAmirroringnetwork.Thisscenariothesameasthatisdescribedintheabovesection,Migrating
searchindexandconfigurations.
ScenarioB:NewappliancesareNOTofthesamemodelandsoftwareversion.
Inascenariowherenewappliancesarenotofthesamemodelorsoftwareversion,therecommendedform
ofGSAmigrationwouldbetomigrateconfigurationsonly,andreindexallcontentonthenewappliances.
However,ifmigrationviamirroringisdesired,andassumingthatthenewGSAmodeliscompatiblefor
mirroringwiththeexistingGSAmodelinuse,anapproachthatcouldbetakenwouldbetoupgradean
existingappliance(eg.backupreplicaappliancefromtheexistingmirroringnetwork),thenmirrorthe
upgradedGSAtooneofthenewappliances,andusethisGSAasamasterinanewGSAmirroring
network.Inthisscenario,thefollowinggeneralstepswouldbetaken:
1. Pausethecrawlfromtheprimarymasterappliance.
2. Removeabackupappliancefromtheexistingmirroringnetwork.
3. Upgradethisappliancetothesameversionasthenewappliance(s).
4. Configuremirroringfromthisbackupappliancetoanewappliance,andcompletethesync.
5. Disablemirroringbetweenthebackupapplianceandthenewappliance.
6. Configuremirroringonthenewappliancetomakeittheprimarymasterofanewmirroring
configuration.
7. Addadditionalnewappliance(s)tothenewmirroringnetwork.
8. Cutovertonewappliancesanddecommissionoldappliances.
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