Updated on 2025-08-22 GMT+08:00

Adding Nodes for a Cluster Instance

API Description

This API is used to add nodes for a specified cluster instance.

Restrictions

  • This API supports both yearly/monthly and pay-per-use DB instances.
  • Only the mongos and shard nodes can be added.

URI

  • URI format

    POST https://{Endpoint}/v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/enlarge

  • URI example

    https://dds.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/0549b4a43100d4f32f51c01c2fe4acdb/instances/9136fd2a9fcd405ea4674276ce36dae8in02/enlarge

Table 1 Request parameters

Name

Type

IN

Mandatory

Description

X-Auth-Token

string

header

Yes

Explanation:

User token obtained from IAM. For details, see Authentication.

Constraints:

N/A

Value range:

N/A

Default value:

N/A

project_id

string

path

Yes

Explanation:

Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints:

N/A

Value range:

N/A

Default value:

N/A

instance_id

string

path

Yes

Explanation:

Instance ID, which can be obtained by calling the API described in Querying Instances and Details. If you do not have an instance, call the API described in Creating a DB Instance to create one.

Constraints:

N/A

Value range:

N/A

Default value:

N/A

Request Parameters

  • Parameter description
    Table 2 Parameter description

    Name

    Type

    Mandatory

    Description

    type

    String

    Yes

    Explanation:

    Type of the object to be scaled.

    Constraints:

    N/A

    Value range:

    • Set the value to mongos if mongos nodes are to be added.
    • Set the value to shard if shard nodes are to be added.

    Default value:

    N/A

    spec_code

    String

    Yes

    Explanation:

    The resource specification code. For details about how to obtain the resource specification code, see the flavors.spec_code parameter in Querying Database Specifications.

    Constraints:

    N/A

    Value range:

    N/A

    Default value:

    N/A

    num

    String

    Yes

    Explanation:

    The number of mongos or shard nodes to be added.

    Constraints:

    A cluster instance supports up to 32 mongos nodes and 32 shard nodes.

    Value range:

    N/A

    Default value:

    N/A

    volume

    Object

    No

    Explanation:

    The volume information. For more information, see Table 3.

    Constraints:

    • This parameter is not transferred when the mongos nodes are to be added.
    • This parameter is mandatory when the shard nodes are to be added.
      NOTE:

      If multiple shards are added at a time, the shards must have the same specifications and disk capacity.

    Value range:

    N/A

    Default value:

    N/A

    is_auto_pay

    Boolean

    No

    Explanation:

    Whether the order is automatically paid from your account when you add nodes to a yearly/monthly DB instance. This parameter does not affect the payment mode of automatic renewal.

    Constraints:

    N/A

    Value range:

    • true: indicates that the order is automatically paid from the account.
    • false: indicates that the order is manually paid from the account. The default value is false.

    Default value:

    false

    Table 3 volume field data structure description

    Name

    Type

    Mandatory

    Description

    size

    String

    Yes

    Explanation:

    The disk capacity of all new shards.

    Constraints:

    N/A

    Value range:

    • 10 GB to 5,000 GB when the shard node has fewer than 8 vCPUs.
    • 10 GB to 10,000 GB when the shard node has 8 or more vCPUs.

    Default value:

    N/A

Example Request

  • Adding one mongos node whose spec_code is set to dds.mongodb.c6.medium.4.mongos
    { 
     "type": "mongos",
     "spec_code":"dds.mongodb.c6.medium.4.mongos",
     "num": 1
    }
  • Adding one shard group whose spec_code is set to dds.mongodb.c6.medium.4.mongos and storage space is 330 GB.
    {
     "type": "shard",
     "spec_code":"dds.mongodb.c6.medium.4.shard",
     "num": 1,
            "volume": { 
                 "size": 330 
        }
    }

Response Parameters

  • Parameter description
    Table 4 Parameter description

    Name

    Type

    Mandatory

    Description

    job_id

    String

    Yes

    Explanation:

    Indicates the task ID.

    Value range:

    N/A

    order_id

    String

    No

    Explanation:

    The order ID. This parameter is returned only when the nodes of a yearly/monthly DB instance are added.

    Value range:

    N/A

  • Response example
    { 
        "job_id": "4008c8914b624785a02ab7966d4d" 
    }

SDK

Click Document Database Service DDS SDK to download the SDK or view the SDK document. To learn how to install and authenticate an SDK, read the Usage section.

Status Code

For more information, see Status Code.

Error Code

For more information, see Error Code.