sh.disableBalancing()

Description

• sh.disableBalancing(namespace)
• Disables the balancer for thespecified sharded collection. This does not affect the balancing ofchunks for other sharded collections in the same cluster.

Important

You can only run sh.disableBalancing() on amongos instance. sh.disableBalancing()errors if run on mongod instance.

The sh.disableBalancing() method has the followingparameter:

ParameterTypeDescriptionnamespacestringThe namespace of the collection.

For more information on the balancing process, seeManage Sharded Cluster Balancer andSharded Cluster Balancer.