[sudoman69]

does any one have experience with adding shards on the fly??we have a requirement weher we get millions of docs every day and we need to have an environment that can handle real-time as well previous days' data...any thoughts on this will be appreciated...

[simonw]

The shards that are used in a Solr query are specified at runtime (you pass a list of shard URLs as part of the search query string) so adding new shards on the fly should Just Work.