Sharded Cluster Administration¶

Config Server Administration: This section contains articles and tutorials related to sharded cluster config server administration
View Cluster Configuration: View status information about the cluster’s databases, shards, and chunks.
Restart a Sharded Cluster: Stop and restart a sharded cluster.
Migrate a Sharded Cluster to Different Hardware: Migrate a sharded cluster to a different hardware system, for example, when moving a pre-production environment to production.
Add Shards to a Cluster: Add a shard to add capacity to a sharded cluster.
Remove Shards from an Existing Sharded Cluster: Migrate a single shard’s data and remove the shard.
Clear jumbo Flag: Manually clear jumbo flag from a chunk.
Back Up Cluster Metadata: Create a backup of a sharded cluster’s metadata while keeping the cluster operational.
Convert Sharded Cluster to Replica Set: Convert a sharded cluster into a single replica set.
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.
Convert a Shard Standalone to a Shard Replica Set: Convert a shard standalone instance to a shard replica set.