Sharded Cluster Deployment Tutorials¶

The following tutorials provide information on deploying sharded clusters.

Deploy a Sharded Cluster: Set up a sharded cluster by creating the needed data directories, starting the required MongoDB instances, and configuring the cluster settings.
Considerations for Selecting Shard Keys: Choose the field that MongoDB uses to parse a collection’s documents for distribution over the cluster’s shards. Each shard holds documents with values within a certain range.
Shard a Collection Using a Hashed Shard Key: Shard a collection based on hashes of a field’s values in order to ensure even distribution over the collection’s shards.
Add Shards to a Cluster: Add a shard to add capacity to a sharded cluster.
Convert a Replica Set to a Sharded Cluster: Convert a replica set to a sharded cluster in which each shard is its own replica set.
Upgrade Config Servers to Replica Set: Replace your sharded cluster with a single replica set.
Convert Sharded Cluster to Replica Set: Replace your sharded cluster with a single replica set.

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