@Saurabh Kumar - I ran into this issue too when following this guide. Most likely you did a copy+paste of xml config settings which contains invalid quotes (”). You'll want to replace those quotes with correctly typed ones from your keyboard. Unfortunately, you cannot simply go through the steps again from the beginning I found, you have to use the zookeeper CLI to update the files for the config set. Here is what I did: 1) download the files already in zookeeper to a temp directory to verify the quotes are still a problem server/scripts/cloud-scripts/zkcli.sh -cmd downconfig -z <ZOOKEPERHOST>:2181 -n mySolrConfigs -d server/solr/temp 2) fix the quotes in the original file using vi: vi /server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf/solrconfig.xml 3) upload the whole conf folder with fixed config file: server/scripts/cloud-scripts/zkcli.sh -cmd upconfig -z <ZOOKEPERHOST>:2181 -n mySolrConfigs -d server/solr/configsets/data_driven_schema_configs/conf After that is done, you should be able to create your SolrCollection without error. ... View more