Creating MongoDB Shards and Replica Sets with PowerShell

In the MongoDB University course "M101N: MongoDB for .NET Developers", there is a walk through of a UNIX script to create a 3x3 set of shards and replica sets. To brush up on my MongoDB and my Powershell, I decided this weekend to try to rewrite and extend the script in Powershell. A somewhat painful, but ultimately rewarding, experience: You can see what I came up with here.  In this post I will walk through some of the powershell and some of the MongoDB syntax and tricks.

A RoboMongo Trick

RoboMongo is a nice tool for digging around xDB databases. It provides the full feature set of the JavaScript shell (you can save variables, run help commands, etc.) and allows you to do things like edit documents directly through the JSON display.

MongoDB for Sitecore

Starting with Sitecore 7.5, MongoDB has become an integral part of the Sitecore ecosystem. This post will walk developers through the process of installing MongoDB, and cover some of the basics of MongoDB CRUD operations, and then look at how to access Sitecore data with MongoDB.

MongoDB Links

Recently, I've been doing a lot of research into MongoDB in preparation for a talk at Sitecore Symposium.  Here are some useful resources I've come across: