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Sharded Cluster Administration

The following tutorials provide instructions for administering sharded clusters. For a higher-level overview, see Sharding.

Deploy Sharded Clusters

• Deploy a Sharded Cluster
• Select a Shard Key
• Hashed Sharding
• Enable Authentication in a Sharded Cluster
• View Cluster Configuration
• Add Shards to a Cluster
• Convert a Replica Set to a Replicated Sharded Cluster

Sharded Cluster Maintenance and Administration

• Administer and Manage Shard Tags
• Deploy Three Config Servers for Production Deployments
• Migrate Config Servers with the Same Hostname
• Migrate Config Servers with Different Hostnames
• Replace a Config Server
• Backup Cluster Metadata
• Manage Chunks in a Sharded Cluster
• Configure Behavior of Balancer Process in Sharded Clusters
• Manage Sharded Cluster Balancer
• Remove Shards from an Existing Sharded Cluster

See also

Backup and Restore Sharded Clusters.

Manage Data in Sharded Clusters

• Tag Aware Sharding
• Enforce Unique Keys for Sharded Collections
• Shard GridFS Data Store

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