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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.
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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