diff --git a/qdrant-landing/content/documentation/guides/distributed_deployment.md b/qdrant-landing/content/documentation/guides/distributed_deployment.md index b81f9b065..582f41f9a 100644 --- a/qdrant-landing/content/documentation/guides/distributed_deployment.md +++ b/qdrant-landing/content/documentation/guides/distributed_deployment.md @@ -278,7 +278,9 @@ await client.CreateCollectionAsync( ); ``` -The number of shards must be a multiple of the number of nodes you are currently running in your cluster. +To ensure all nodes in your cluster are evenly utilized, the number of shards must be a multiple of the number of nodes you are currently running in your cluster. + +> Aside: Advanced use cases such as multitenancy may require an uneven distribution of shards. See [Multitenancy](/articles/multitenancy/). We recommend creating at least 2 shards per node to allow future expansion without having to re-shard. Re-sharding should be avoided since it requires creating a new collection. In-place re-sharding is planned for a future version of Qdrant.