Start decommissioning a MinIO server pool

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Documented steps

  1. Identify the TARGET pool (full pool description or hash:<hex> id) via mc admin decommission status ALIAS
  2. Start the process: mc admin decommission start ALIAS TARGET
  3. MinIO automatically migrates data from the decommissioned pool to the remaining pools based on the free-space ratio of each
  4. Monitor with mc admin decommission status ALIAS TARGET until it reports Complete

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