How to migrate from Alfresco Search Services to Alfresco SearchEnterprise
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Presentation on how to move from the Alfresco Search Services product based in Apache Solr to the new Alfresco Search Enterprise integrated with Elasticsearch and Amazon Opensearch.
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How to migrate from Alfresco Search Services to Alfresco SearchEnterprise
- 1. June 6 - 8th, 2023 Hyland’s Global Headquarters – Westlake, OH
- 2. How to migrate from Search Services to Search Enterprise THE ALFRESCO NEXT-GEN SEARCH SERVICE Angel Borroy Developer Evangelist
- 3. AGENDA § Meet the Alfresco Search Family! § Deploying Alfresco Search Enterprise § Migrating from Alfresco Search Services
- 4. MEET THE SEARCH FAMILY!
- 6. Search and Insight Engine Search Services SEARCH PRODUCTS Search Enterprise Cloud Connector (+) Sharding (+) Reporting 2.x 3.x STANDARD COMMUNITY Search Services ENTERPRISE Search and Insight Engine Search Enterprise
- 7. SEARCH SERVICES + SEARCH AND INSIGHT ENGINE Content Services Search Services HTTP HTTP alfresco.cron=0/10 * * * * ? * Transform Core AIO HTTP Asynchronous polling request indexing mode
- 8. SEARCH ENTERPRISE Content Services Search Enterprise Database PostgreSQL Messages ActiveMQ TCP TCP JDBC HTTP HTTP Transform Service JDBC TCP HTTP Asynchronous message indexing mode Cloud Connector
- 10. SIMPLE DEPLOYMENT : SEARCH & INDEXING alfresco/alfresco-content-repository alfresco/alfresco-activemq alfresco/alfresco-elasticsearch-live-indexing alfresco/alfresco-transform-router alfresco/alfresco-shared-file-store Local deployment is supported via java -jar alfresco-elasticsearch-live-indexing.jar
- 11. SIMPLE DEPLOYMENT : REINDEXING alfresco/alfresco-content-repository alfresco/alfresco-activemq alfresco/alfresco-transform-router alfresco/alfresco-shared-file-store alfresco/alfresco-elasticsearch-reindexing Local deployment is supported via java -jar alfresco-elasticsearch-reindexing.jar Metadata Permissions Paths Content
- 12. metadata metadata SCALING UP : INDEXING CLUSTER mediation metadata content path alfresco/alfresco-elasticsearch-live-indexing alfresco/alfresco-activemq alfresco/alfresco-shared-file-store
- 13. SCALING UP : INDEXING content NoC < 10 Increasing the number of consumers doesn’t help Number of Pending Messages +++ metadata NoC++ Increase the number of metadata consumers Search Engine Resources++ Increase RAM / CPU of Cluster Alternatively, add a new node to the Cluser (shards are managed internally) mediation NoC++ Increase the number of mediation consumers
- 14. SCALING UP : SEARCHING https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tune-for-search-speed.html https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/search-plugins/knn/performance-tuning/#search-performance-tuning § Configure HEAP with ES_HEAP_SIZE • Avoid using directly -Xms -Xmx • Leave ½ of the memory available to Lucene § Reduce swapping • Using bootstrap.mlockall:true property prevents JVM to swap § Set the right buffer size for indexing with indices.memory.index_buffer_size • Each Shard requires around 512 mb but increasing it doesn’t help
- 15. SCALING UP : REINDEXING WITH REMOTE PARTITIONS alfresco-elasticsearch-reindexing alfresco-elasticsearch-reindexing alfresco-elasticsearch-reindexing alfresco-activemq MANAGER DB Schema Validation Partition creation Reindexing Database WORKER 1 Read partition Index nodes WORKER N Read partition Index nodes Alfresco Database Produce partition requests > < Consume workers replies … < partition < partition reply > reply > Partition By ID Range By Date Range
- 16. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS Search Enterprise ActiveMQ Transform Service mTLS mTLS mTLS mTLS Content Services mTLS https://github.com/alfresco/alfresco-ssl-generator truststore keystore truststore keystore truststore keystore truststore keystore truststore keystore
- 18. WHY TO ADOPT SEARCH ENTERPRISE § Supporting Elasticsearch and OpenSearch out-of-the-box products § Documents and values are available for searching sooner § Re-indexing large repositories is much faster, moving the scale of time from days to hours § Scaling up the search engine is easier, and it can be almost transparent when using managed services § Cloud deployment based in Kubernetes is better supported § Alfresco Search products based in SOLR are currently in maintenance mode
- 19. DESIGNING YOUR PATH TO SEARCH ENTERPRISE Upgraded ACS Compatibility Existing ACS ACS >= 7.1 Upgrade ACS Rewrite queries Downtime Parallel Indexing Unsupported Features Supported Platforms Zero Downtime Upgrade
- 20. COMPATIBILITY VERIFICATION Review Unsupported Features documentation § Field Queries like DBID, TXID, ACLID, ANCESTOR or FTSSTATUS § SQL query language using JDBC Driver § Data types like any, assocref, locale and qname Audit your ACS Deployment § Build a query catalog for your use case § Approach using the Audit Subsystem is available in • https://github.com/AlfrescoLabs/alfresco-query-catalog-builder Run a dry run on a testing environment using Search Enterprise with your data and your apps
- 21. UPGRADING FROM ACS 6.X ACS 6.x SOLR ACS 7.4 Elasticsearch | OpenSearch ACS 7.4 Elasticsearch | OpenSearch Elasticsearch | OpenSearch Replica DB ACS 7.4 Reindexing Reindexing Indexing Content Store https://docs.alfresco.com/search-enterprise/latest/upgrade/#upgrade-from-legacy-content-services
- 22. ZERO DOWNTIME UPGRADE ACS 7.4 SOLR ACS 7.4 Elasticsearch | OpenSearch Elasticsearch | OpenSearch Replica DB ACS 7.4 Reindexing + Indexing Indexing Content Store https://docs.alfresco.com/search-enterprise/latest/upgrade/#zero-downtime-upgrade
- 23. UPGRADE TO SEARCH ENTERPRISE TODAY!
- 24. Thank you!