Added index and cluster settings related to RW separation

_install-and-configure/configuring-opensearch/cluster-settings.md

@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ OpenSearch supports the following cluster-level routing and shard allocation set
     - `REPLICA_FIRST` – Replica shards are relocated first, before primary shards. This prioritization may help prevent a cluster's health status from going red when carrying out shard relocation in a mixed-version, segment-replication-enabled OpenSearch cluster. In this situation, primary shards relocated to OpenSearch nodes of a newer version could try to copy segment files to replica shards on an older version of OpenSearch, which would result in shard failure. Relocating replica shards first may help to avoid this in multi-version clusters. 
     - `NO_PREFERENCE` – The default behavior in which the order of shard relocation has no importance. 
 
+- `cluster.routing.search_replica.strict` (Dynamic, Boolean): Controls how search requests are routed when search replica shards exist for an index, such as when `index.number_of_search_replicas` is greater than `0`. This setting applies only when search replicas are configured for an index. When set to `true`, all search requests for such indexes are routed only to search replica shards. If search replicas are unassigned, the requests fail. When set to `false`, if search replicas are unassigned, requests fall back to any available shard. Default is `true`.
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 - `cluster.allocator.gateway.batch_size` (Dynamic, integer): Limits the number of shards sent to data nodes in a single batch to fetch any unassigned shard metadata. Default is `2000`.
 
 - `cluster.allocator.existing_shards_allocator.batch_enabled` (Static, Boolean): Enables batch allocation of unassigned shards that already exist on the disk, as opposed to allocating one shard at a time. This reduces memory and transport overhead by fetching any unassigned shard metadata in a batch call. Default is `false`.

_install-and-configure/configuring-opensearch/index-settings.md

@@ -199,8 +199,14 @@ OpenSearch supports the following dynamic index-level index settings:
 
 - `index.number_of_replicas` (Integer): The number of replica shards each primary shard should have. For example, if you have 4 primary shards and set `index.number_of_replicas` to 3, the index has 12 replica shards. If not set, defaults to `cluster.default_number_of_replicas` (which is `1` by default).
 
+- `index.number_of_search_replicas` (Integer): The number of search replica shards that each primary shard should have. For example, if you have 4 primary shards and set `index.number_of_search_replicas` to 3, the index has 12 search replica shards. Default is `0`.
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 - `index.auto_expand_replicas` (String): Whether the cluster should automatically add replica shards based on the number of data nodes. Specify a lower bound and upper limit (for example, 0--9) or `all` for the upper limit. For example, if you have 5 data nodes and set `index.auto_expand_replicas` to 0--3, then the cluster does not automatically add another replica shard. However, if you set this value to `0-all` and add 2 more nodes for a total of 7, the cluster will expand to now have 6 replica shards. Default is disabled.
 
+- `index.auto_expand_search_replicas` (String): Controls whether the cluster automatically adjusts the number of search replica shards based on the number of available search nodes. Specify the value as a range with a lower and upper bound, for example, `0-3` or `0-all`. If you don't specify a value, this feature is disabled. 
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+   For example, if you have 5 data nodes and set `index.auto_expand_search_replicas` to `0-3`, the index can have up to 3 search replicas and the cluster does not automatically add another search replica shard. However, if you set `index.auto_expand_search_replicas` to `0-all` and add 2 more nodes, for a total of 7, the cluster will expand to now have 7 search replica shards. This setting is disabled by default.
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 - `index.search.idle.after` (Time unit): The amount of time a shard should wait for a search or get request until it goes idle. Default is `30s`.
 
 - `index.search.default_pipeline` (String): The name of the search pipeline that is used if no pipeline is explicitly set when searching an index. If a default pipeline is set and the pipeline doesn't exist, then the index requests fail. Use the pipeline name `_none` to specify no default search pipeline. For more information, see [Default search pipeline]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/search-plugins/search-pipelines/using-search-pipeline/#default-search-pipeline).