title: How can I pre split in hbase
body: <p>I am storing data in hbase having 5 region servers. I am using md5 hash of url as my row keys. Currently all the data is getting stored in one region server only. So I want to pre-split the regions so that data will go uniformly across all region server, so that data will go in each region server uniformly.
  I want to split data as first character of row key.As first character is from 0 to f(16 characters). Like data with rowkey starting from 0 to 3 will go in 1st region server, 3-6 on 2nd , 6-9 on 3rd, a-d on 4th, d-f on 5th.  How can I do it ?</p>