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Install and Deploy MinIO
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MinIO is a software-defined high performance distributed object storage server. You can run MinIO on consumer or enterprise-grade hardware and a variety of operating systems and architectures.
MinIO supports three deployment topologies:
- Single-Node Single-Drive (SNSD or "Standalone")
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A single MinIO server with a single storage volume or folder. deployment provides failover protections. Drive-level reliability and failover depends on the underlying storage volume.
deployments are best suited for evaluation and initial development of applications using MinIO for object storage.
deployments implement a zero-parity erasure coding backend and include support for the following erasure-coding dependent features:
Versioning <minio-bucket-versioning>Object Locking / Retention <minio-object-retention>
- Single-Node Multi-Drive (SNMD or "Standalone Multi-Drive")
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A single MinIO server with four or more storage volumes. deployments provide drive-level reliability and failover only.
- Multi-Node Multi-Drive (MNMD or "Distributed")
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Multiple MinIO servers with at least four drives across all servers. The distributed topology supports production-grade object storage with drive and node-level availability and resiliency.
For tutorials on deploying or expanding a distributed MinIO deployment, see:
deploy-minio-distributedexpand-minio-distributed
The following table compares the key functional differences between MinIO deployments:
Single-Node Single-Drive |
Single-Node Multi-Drive |
Multi-Node Multi-Drive |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Site-to-Site Replication | Client-Side via mc mirror |
Server-Side Replication <minio-bucket-replication> |
Server-Side Replication <minio-bucket-replication> |
| Versioning | No | Object Versioning <minio-bucket-versioning> |
Object Versioning <minio-bucket-versioning> |
| Retention | No | Write-Once Read-Many Locking <minio-bucket-locking> |
Write-Once Read-Many Locking <minio-bucket-locking> |
| High Availability / Redundancy | Drive Level Only (RAID and similar) | Drive Level only with Erasure Coding <minio-erasure-coding> |
Drive and Server-Level with Erasure Coding <minio-erasure-coding> |
| Scaling | No | Server Pool Expansion <expand-minio-distributed> |
Server Pool Expansion <expand-minio-distributed>. |
Site Replication
Site replication expands the features of bucket replication to include IAM, security tokens, service accounts, and bucket features the same across all sites.
Site replication <minio-site-replication-overview>
links multiple MinIO deployments together and keeps the buckets,
objects, and Identify and Access Management (IAM) settings in sync
across all connected sites.
What Does Not Replicate?
Not everything replicates across sites.
Platform Support
MinIO provides builds of the MinIO server (minio) and the MinIO CLI (Command Line Interface)
(mc) for the following
platforms.
linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5+ (including all binary-compatible RHEL alternatives)
- Ubuntu 18.04+
MinIO provides builds for the following architectures:
- AMD64
- ARM64
- PowerPC 64 LE
- S390X
macos
MinIO recommends non-EOL macOS versions (10.14+).
windows
MinIO recommends non-EOL Windows versions (Windows 10, Windows Server
2016+). Support for running distributed MinIO deployments <deploy-minio-distributed>
is experimental on Windows OS.
For unlisted platforms or architectures, please reach out to MinIO at
hello@min.io for additional support
and guidance. You can build MinIO from source <minio/#install-from-source> and cross-compile
for your platform and architecture combo. MinIO generally does not
recommend source-based installations in production environments.
/operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-single-node-single-drive /operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-single-node-multi-drive /operations/install-deploy-manage/deploy-minio-multi-node-multi-drive /operations/install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication