Start a MinIO pool rebalance with mc admin rebalance start

domain: object-storage · 4 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. Configure an alias for the deployment: mc alias set ALIAS https://endpoint:9000 ACCESSKEY SECRETKEY
  2. Confirm the user has the admin:Rebalance policy action for the deployment (required permission)
  3. Start the operation: mc admin rebalance start ALIAS (e.g. mc admin rebalance start myaistor)
  4. Rebalancing redistributes objects across all pools to equalize free space; without it, new objects are written to the pool with the most free space

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