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MongoDB Enterprise provides various features not available in the MongoDB Community edition, such as:

The following steps outline the procedure to upgrade a sharded cluster from the MongoDB Community Edition to the MongoDB Enterprise Edition. For example, the steps can be used to upgrade MongoDB 4.0 Community to MongoDB 4.0 Enterprise.

Consideration

Warning

Do not use these instructions to upgrade to another release version. To upgrade release versions, refer to the appropriate release upgrade instructions, such as Upgrade to MongoDB 4.2.

Download Enterprise Binaries

Depending on your operating system, you can install the MongoDB Enterprise binaries by using a package manager or by downloading the binaries manually.

If you have installed MongoDB Community using a package manager, follow the package manager instructions for your operating system:

During the installation, the package manager will remove the community packages; this will not affect the running deployment until you restart.

If you have not installed MongoDB using a package manager, you can manually download the MongoDB binaries from the MongoDB Download Center. Follow the manual instructions, including specific prerequisites for MongoDB Enterprise, for your operating system:

Important

Install to a location different from that of your current Community edition.

In the upgrade procedure, you will use the existing data directory and, if applicable, the existing configuration file.

Important

You cannot use the .msi to install the Enterprise edition if you have the Community edition of the same release series installed on the same machine. That is, if you have version 4.4.0 Community edition installed, you cannot use the .msi to install the 4.4.0 or 4.4.1 Enterprise edition.

  1. Manually download the archive file from the MongoDB Download Center.

  2. To install, extract/unzip the file to a location different from that of your current Community edition.
    In the upgrade procedure, you will use the existing data directory and, if applicable, the existing configuration file.

Install the binaries:

  1. Manually download the archive file from the MongoDB Download Center.

  2. Extract the files to a location different from that of your current Community edition. For details on extracting the files, see macOS.
    In the upgrade procedure, you will use the existing data directory and, if applicable, the existing configuration file.

Procedure

To minimize downtime, you can upgrade from MongoDB Community to Enterprise Edition using a “rolling” upgrade by upgrading the members individually while the other members are available.

1

Disable the Balancer.

Connect a mongo shell to a mongos instance in the sharded cluster, and run sh.stopBalancer() to disable the balancer:

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sh.stopBalancer()

Note

If a migration is in progress, the system will complete the in-progress migration before stopping the balancer. You can run sh.isBalancerRunning() to check the balancer’s current state.

To verify that the balancer is disabled, run sh.getBalancerState(), which returns false if the balancer is disabled:

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sh.getBalancerState()

Starting in MongoDB 4.2, sh.stopBalancer() also disables auto-splitting for the sharded cluster.

For more information on disabling the balancer, see Disable the Balancer.

2

Upgrade the config servers.

  1. Upgrade the secondary members of the replica set one at a time:

    1. Shut down the secondary mongod instance.
    2. Restart the member with the Enterprise mongod, specifying the same configuration options (e.g. same data directory, configuration file, etc.).
    3. Wait for the member to recover to SECONDARY state before upgrading the next secondary member. To check the member’s state, issue rs.status() in the mongo shell.

    Repeat for each remaining secondary member.

  2. Step down the replica set primary.

    Connect a mongo shell to the primary and use rs.stepDown() to step down the primary and force an election of a new primary:

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    rs.stepDown()

  3. When rs.status() shows that the primary has stepped down and another member is primary, upgrade the stepped-down primary:

    1. Shut down the stepped-down primary.
    2. Restart with the Enterprise mongod, specifying the same configuration options (e.g. same data directory, configuration file, etc.).
3

Upgrade the shards.

Upgrade the shards one at a time.

For each shard replica set:

  1. Upgrade the secondary members of the replica set one at a time:

    1. Shut down the secondary mongod instance.
    2. Restart the member with the Enterprise mongod, specifying the same configuration options (e.g. same data directory, configuration file, etc.).
    3. Wait for the member to recover to SECONDARY state before upgrading the next secondary member. To check the member’s state, issue rs.status() in the mongo shell.

    Repeat for each remaining secondary member.

  2. Step down the replica set primary.

    Connect a mongo shell to the primary and use rs.stepDown() to step down the primary and force an election of a new primary:

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    rs.stepDown()

  3. When rs.status() shows that the primary has stepped down and another member is primary, upgrade the stepped-down primary:

    1. Shut down the stepped-down primary.
    2. Restart with the Enterprise mongod, specifying the same configuration options (e.g. same data directory, configuration file, etc.).
4

Upgrade the mongos instances.

For each mongos instance, shutdown mongos and restart with the Enterprise mongos, specifying the same configuration options.

5

Re-enable the balancer.

Using a mongo shell, connect to a mongos in the cluster and run sh.startBalancer() to re-enable the balancer:

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sh.startBalancer()

Starting in MongoDB 4.2, sh.startBalancer() also enables auto-splitting for the sharded cluster.

For more inforamtion on the balancer, see Enable the Balancer.

Important

Before using any Enterprise features, ensure that all members have been upgraded to Enterprise edition.

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