Controlling placement

You can use several different options to control when shards are placed on various container servers in the configuration. During startup, you might choose to delay the placement of shards. When you are running all of your container servers, you might need to suspend, resume, or change placement while you maintain servers.

Procedure

Controlling placement during startup

You can control when shards begin to be placed while your environment is starting. Some control is in place by default. If you do not take any actions to control placement, shards begin to be placed immediately. When shards are placed immediately, the shards might not be placed evenly as subsequent container servers start, and further placement operations run to balance the distribution.

Controlling placement after initial startup

What to do next

You can monitor the placement in the environment with the xscmd -c placementServiceStatus command.