Self-Managed Sharded Cluster Administration
MongoDB 5.0 is end of life as of October 2024. This version of the documentation is no longer
supported. To upgrade your 5.0 deployment, see the MongoDB 6.0 upgrade procedures.
These documents provide instructions on how to administer a self-managed sharded cluster.
- Self-Managed Sharded Cluster Config Server Administration
- Learn about self-managed sharded cluster config server administration.
- Restart a Self-Managed Sharded Cluster
- Stop and restart a sharded cluster.
- Migrate a Self-Managed Sharded Cluster to Different Hardware
- Migrate a sharded cluster to a different hardware system, for example, when moving a pre-production environment to production.
- Back Up Self-Managed Cluster Metadata
- Create a backup of a sharded cluster's metadata while keeping the cluster operational.
- Convert Self-Managed Sharded Cluster to Replica Set
- Convert a sharded cluster into a single replica set.
- Convert a Self-Managed Replica Set to a Sharded Cluster
- Deploy a sharded cluster for an existing replica set.