OrmLite factory for sharding across servers

ServiceStack.OrmLite
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We are sharding (across servers and db’s) based on a property in the persisted POCO (basically, customer id). Couple questions:

Do I need one factory for each potential target (Server / db combo)?
Where is the best place to stash these if I use some inside a container and some not? (They will need to be created post-start up too…)
Should I always call OpenDbConnection or should these be cached?

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You can only have 1 dbFactory registered, see the DB shard example on OrmLite home page using named connections also the Multitenancy docs shows different examples for switching named connections.