With the release of Solr 4.0, we've got the ability to use a fully-distributed Solr cluster with fully-distributed indexing and searching. Along with this comes the reworked Solr administration panel with parts concentrated on Cloud functionalities. This recipe will show you how to use this part of the administration panel; for example, how to see your cluster distribution and detailed information about shards and replicas.
This recipe assumes that the SolrCloud cluster is up and running. If you are not familiar with setting up the SolrCloud cluster, please refer to the Creating a new SolrCloud cluster recipe in this chapter.