Minio: How can I extend the storage size after deployment?
I have a situation, when I deploy my minio server, I don't know what storage size I need.
How can I extend the storage size after deployment?
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Version: 2017-03-16T21:50:32Z
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Deploy type : 4 minio nodes share 1 drive, 4 minio client are directly deploy on operating system. - Operating System and version (
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Alexander-He
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@Alexander-He you will have to launch a new minio instance with new storage and start using it.
krishnasrinivas
on 18 May 2017
@Alexander-He Minio recommends cloud-native approach for scaling your storage infrastructure. When you run out of storage, you simply spin new Minio instance(s) per tenant. A tenant can be a user, a group of users, or any other kind of aggregation of data.
Take for example, a CCTV video storage use case. Initially you wouldn't know how much storage you possibly need to store the videos. In such cases, you can assign one Minio instance to store videos from one month, another Minio instance to store videos for second month and so on. To make sure the application remembers which data is stored in which Minio instance, you can have a database storing the mapping from date-range to corresponding Minio instance.
This way you can scale infinitely, while your storage and application remain relatively simple.
Take a look at our multi-tenant deployment guide: https://docs.minio.io/docs/multi-tenant-minio-deployment-guide
nitisht
on 18 May 2017
Related to #4366
deekoder
on 18 May 2017
@NitishT I see, this helped me, thank you very much,
Alexander-He
on 19 May 2017
https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide.html expansion is already part of the main storage stack, so anyone landing here please read the latest documentation.
harshavardhana
on 1 Apr 2020
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@Alexander-He Minio recommends cloud-native approach for scaling your storage infrastructure. When you run out of storage, you simply spin new Minio instance(s) per tenant. A tenant can be a user, a group of users, or any other kind of aggregation of data.
Take for example, a CCTV video storage use case. Initially you wouldn't know how much storage you possibly need to store the videos. In such cases, you can assign one Minio instance to store videos from one month, another Minio instance to store videos for second month and so on. To make sure the application remembers which data is stored in which Minio instance, you can have a database storing the mapping from date-range to corresponding Minio instance.
This way you can scale infinitely, while your storage and application remain relatively simple.
Take a look at our multi-tenant deployment guide: https://docs.minio.io/docs/multi-tenant-minio-deployment-guide