Simply, Deploy sharded cluster with some replica sets. I used 2 replica set with 2 standard nodes and 1 arbiter. $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26101; mongod --port 26101 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26101 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26101/log --fork --logappend --replSet rs1 --oplogSize 1000 $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26102; mongod --port 26102 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26102 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26102/log --fork --logappend --replSet rs1 --oplogSize 1000 $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26103; mongod --port 26103 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26103 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26103/log --fork --logappend --replSet rs1 --oplogSize 1000 $ mongo localhost:26101 > rs.initiate({ "_id" : "rs1" , members:[{ "_id" :1, "host" : "localhost:26101" }, { "_id" :2, "host" : "localhost:26102" }, { "_id" :3, "host" : "localhost:26103" , "arbiterOnly" : true }]}) rs1:PRIMARY> $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26201; mongod --port 26201 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26201 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26201/log --fork --logappend --replSet rs2 --oplogSize 1000 $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26202; mongod --port 26202 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26202 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26202/log --fork --logappend --replSet rs2 --oplogSize 1000 $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26203; mongod --port 26203 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26203 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26203/log --fork --logappend --replSet rs2 --oplogSize 1000 $ mongo localhost:26201 > rs.initiate({ "_id" : "rs2" , members:[{ "_id" :1, "host" : "localhost:26201" }, { "_id" :2, "host" : "localhost:26202" }, { "_id" :3, "host" : "localhost:26203" , "arbiterOnly" : true }]}) rs1:PRIMARY> $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26001; mongod --port 26001 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26001 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26001/log --fork --logappend --configsvr $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26002; mongod --port 26002 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26002 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26002/log --fork --logappend --configsvr $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26003; mongod --port 26003 --dbpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26003 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26003/log --fork --logappend --configsvr $ mkdir -p /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26400; mongos --port 26400 --logpath /Users/k2hyun/Database/mongodb/26400/log --fork --logappend --configdb "localhost:26001,localhost:26002,localhost:26003" $ mongos localhost:26400 mongos> sh.addShard( "rs1/localhost:26101,localhost:26102" ) { "shardAdded" : "rs1" , "ok" : 1 } mongos> sh.addShard( "rs2/localhost:26201,localhost:26202" ) { "shardAdded" : "rs2" , "ok" : 1 } Then just kill one of standard node. (I killed the mongd using port 26202) The final step is just create a hashed collection. It NEVER ends. The moveChunk command is same. mongos> db.runCommand({ "enableSharding" : "foo" }) { "ok" : 1 } mongos> db.runCommand({ "shardCollection" : "foo.bar" , "key" :{ "name" : "hashed" }})