@Arti Wadhwani I believe this is what you are looking for https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collections+API createNodeSetstringNoAllows defining the nodes to spread the new collection across. If not provided, the CREATE operation will create shard-replica spread across all live Solr nodes. The format is a comma-separated list of node_names, such as localhost:8983_solr, localhost:8984_solr, localhost:8985_solr . Alternatively, use the special value of EMPTY to initially create no shard-replica within the new collection and then later use the ADDREPLICA operation to add shard-replica when and where required. ... View more