Determine whether it is safe to run a MinIO rebalance and how writes behave during the operation

domain: min.io · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. Confirm the operator has the admin:Rebalance policy action for the deployment
  2. Check current write/read load - the operation is expensive and time-consuming, so schedule it during light or no deployment usage
  3. Understand the side effect: objects are redistributed across pools to achieve similar available free space on each
  4. If writes do occur during the rebalance, expect them to process in parallel and land on a pool not actively rebalancing
  5. Plan that you can stop a rebalance and start it again later without losing progress

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