Sharded Cluster Administration

Scaling Strategies: View horizontal scaling strategies and best practices for sharding collections.
View Cluster Configuration: View status information about the cluster's databases, shards, and chunks.
Add Shards to a Cluster: Add a shard to add capacity to a sharded cluster.
Add a Member to a Shard: Add a member to a shard in a sharded cluster.
Remove Shards from a Sharded Cluster: Migrate a single shard's data and remove the shard.
Transition from Embedded to Dedicated Config Server: Transition from an embedded config server to a dedicated config server.
Unshard a Collection: Manually unshard a sharded collection.
Clear jumbo Flag: Manually clear jumbo flag from a chunk.
Drop a Hashed Shard Key Index: Drop a Hashed Shard Key Index.
Config Shard: You can configure a config server to store both application data and the usual sharded cluster metadata.
Start a Sharded Cluster with a Config Shard: Start a Sharded Cluster with a Config Shard.
Reshard to the Same Shard Key: Reshard to the Same Shard Key.
Reshard a Collection back to the Same Shard Key: Reshard a Collection back to the Same Shard Key.
Resharding for Adding and Removing Shards: Resharding for Adding and Removing Shards.

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