How to remove a shard from the MongoDB sharded cluster

December 19, 2015 · by · in MongoDB

Removes a shard from a sharded cluster. When you run removeShard, MongoDB first moves the shard’s chunks to other shards in the cluster. Then MongoDB removes the shard. [root@dbversity bin]# ./mongo –port 10000 MongoDB shell version: 2.4.11 connecting to: 127.0.0.1:10000/test…