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Why You Should Not Run MinIO on SAN/NAS Appliances (and the one exception)

Eco Eco on Operator's Guide 6 January 2023

We wanted to share our thoughts on running MinIO on a SAN/NAS appliance. First off, you CAN run MinIO on a SAN/NAS appliance. While it is possible, it is not a good idea and we strongly discourage our customers from taking this approach. Don’t let your friendly, neighborhood SAN/NAS appliance vendor talk you into it without

Data Stores, Object Stores and the Inevitable Decline of SAN/NAS

Eco Eco on Architect's Guide 22 November 2022

Traditionally, the design, acquisition and deployment of storage required specialized skills and the ability to manage a fair amount of complexity to do successfully. Modern object storage has changed that. This is particularly poignant today - where the purchase of SAN and NAS appliances often take months, or longer, to complete. This stands in stark contrast to software defined object

Best Practices for Deploying MinIO in Virtualized Environments

Eco Eco on Software Defined Storage 19 January 2022

Lay the best foundation for cloud-native object storage and give developers and their apps the performance they need.

Supermicro Cloud DC Benchmark

Eco Eco Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on Performance 15 September 2021

WARP performance testing MinIO on Supermicro Cloud DC servers with NVMe drives.

Introducing SUBNET Health

Eco Eco on SUBNET 7 April 2021

SUBNET is the commercial engine of MinIO. It is how production instances of MinIO are consumed, from startups to the most valuable technology companies in the world. SUBNET combines a commercial license (important for the AGPLv3 obligations) with a unique support model that delivers 24/7/365 direct-to-engineer support through a MinIO-built portal that blends the best of Slack and

Using Splunk to Monitor MinIO - A Tutorial

Eco Eco on Operator's Guide 14 May 2020

Overview MinIO and Splunk have a symbiotic relationship when it comes to enterprise data. Splunk uses MinIO in its Digital Stream Processor. MinIO is a Splunk SmartStore endpoint. In this post we explain how to use Splunk's advanced log analytics to help understand the performance of the MinIO object storage suite and the data under management. A quick

Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBO) with MinIO

Eco Eco on Operator's Guide 4 May 2020

With the announcement that MinIO was Veeam Ready for Object last week we felt it would be helpful to circle back and talk about an additional use case. In our first post [https://blog.min.io/minio-high-performance-object-storage-for-veeam-backup-and-recovery/] we covered backups of VMware ESX. An equally popular use case is Veeam Backup for Office (VBO). The Office backup market is massive.

High Performance Object Storage for Veeam Backup and Recovery

Eco Eco on Operator's Guide 23 April 2020

Veeam's V10 release adds object storage support in a big way. Find out how these two software stacks play together to deliver performance oriented backup and restore.

Re-Imagining Support: From Slack to SUBNET

Eco Eco on Operator's Guide 25 June 2019

We approach things differently here at MinIO. When we started in 2014, we questioned everything about the object storage market as we built our product - thinking more like a data company than a storage company. We did it from scratch, using engineering first principles, an extraordinary attention to detail and a relentless pursuit of simplicity. We paid careful attention