Hi All,
Am building a whole new sharePoint environment and i could configure all the needed services except search, see image.
during the configuration wizard for the App3 & App4 i've changed the location of search index location to another drive "D:\ drive", then i've configured some high available services on APP1 & App2 like state service, MMD & Work Flow Manager.
all working fine so far.
now i need to configure the two other servers App3 & App4 for only search service and not to include APP1 or APP2 on search service as they are holding the Central and other services, i've followed a document from Microsoft "Test Lab Guide: Configure a Highly Available SharePoint Server 2013 Search Topology" but i think i did something wrong with the setup, could you please help with this configuration, also with indexing partition configuration as the setup should be high available setup for search services, that mean if i totally lost APP3 server search service should not be affected including indexed items.
also in some scenarios i've found that the query component is configured on the WFE server.? which better
Thanks