Performance - MinIO Blog

Gracefully handling disk failures in MinIO

AJ AJ on Best Practices 10 October 2023

In this post we’ll primarily focus on how to manage drives that are failing. We’ll either try to bring them to a good state or show the best practices on how to replace them altogether without impacting existing operations.

Active-Active Example Using an Email Provider

AJ AJ on Architect's Guide 25 September 2023

Email is the ultimate performance-at-scale use case as it generally only goes up in terms of data volume. Further, the more data that’s stored, the more valuable the data becomes. MinIO’s multi-site active-active replication focuses on keeping the cluster in top performance.

Network Configurations to Make the Most of MinIO

AJ AJ on Best Practices 21 September 2023

We’ll go deep into the network configurations with which you can configure MinIO to the different replication strategies and network topologies that can be used to ensure your data is stored and accessed efficiently across multiple MinIO deployments.

MinIO Adds Manual Rebalancing

Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on Best Practices 6 September 2023

You don't have to rebalance data saved to MinIO, but you can if you want to.

Storage Infrastructure for Automating Configuration Management with Salt and Puppet

AJ AJ on DevOps 22 August 2023

Globally there has been a shift to bring applications closer to home. Enterprises want more control of their data and have had enough of paying egress fees to the public cloud to get access to their own data. Besides cost, there is also the matter of security, or lack thereof, when resources are shared with unknown organizations. Vulnerabilities can trickle

Accelerating Database Backup and Restore with MinIO Jumbo

Aditya Manthramurthy Aditya Manthramurthy Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on Benchmarks 20 July 2023

Accelerating Database Backup and Restore with MinIO Jumbo

MinIO Jumbo improved backup performance by 15x using parallel uploads.

Low Level Performance Testing for Object Storage

Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on Operator's Guide 11 July 2023

Low Level Performance Testing for Object Storage

Learn how to troubleshoot object storage performance with low level system component testing.

Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store is a Bad Idea. Here is why.

Dileeshvar Radhakrishnan Dileeshvar Radhakrishnan

AJ AJ on Object Storage 27 June 2023

Putting a Filesystem on Top of an Object Store is a Bad Idea. Here is why.

When purchasing storage, the emphasis is usually on media, but it may be even more important to consider access methods too. You will need to take storage protocols into account when designing and procuring infrastructure, especially when you leave legacy storage behind in order to migrate to cloud-native object storage. However, object storage relies on the S3 API for communications,

Erasure Coding Impact on CPU Utilization in MinIO

Klaus Post Klaus Post on Benchmarks 18 May 2023

The answer to the burning question you always wanted to ask - how does erasure coding utilize CPU?

Supermicro GrandTwin™ SuperServers and MinIO for Dense Rack-Optimized Storage

Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on Benchmarks 5 May 2023

Supermicro GrandTwin™ SuperServers and MinIO for Dense Rack-Optimized Storage

The Supermicro GrandTwin™ SuperServer is a solid, well-designed NVMe class hardware that we recommend for MinIO workloads.

Time to First Byte and Streaming Media

Satish Ramakrishnan Satish Ramakrishnan on Performance 23 March 2023

Time to first byte is a key performance metric for video streaming. Learn how MinIO improves customer experience and reduces churn.

Fast, Scalable and Immutable Object Storage for Commvault

Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on BC/DR 7 December 2022

Fast, Scalable and Immutable Object Storage for Commvault

Together, MinIO and Commvault provide a software-defined and hardware agnostic backup, restore and replication system that is both simple and powerful at the same time.

Faster Multi-Site Replication and Resync

Matt Sarrel Matt Sarrel @msarrel

on Multicloud 23 November 2022

Faster Multi-Site Replication and Resync

First introduced in late 2021, multi-site Active-Active Replication [https://blog.min.io/minio-multi-site-active-active-replication/] has grown to be one of the most impactful MinIO features. MinIO has long had the ability to replicate between buckets to synchronize objects, delete operations and metadata changes, but Multi-site Active-Active Replication goes beyond bucket replication to synchronize all buckets, IAM, security tokens, service accounts and

Metrics with MinIO using OpenTelemetry, Flask, and Prometheus

AJ AJ on Observability 27 September 2022

In this post, we will learn the process of gathering metrics from a Python application integrated with OpenTelemetry, storing them in Prometheus, and visualizing the data in a Grafana dashboard. A great tutorial by AJ from MinIO.

Transparent Data Compression on MinIO

Klaus Post Klaus Post on Operator's Guide 14 July 2022

Enabling and tuning transparent data compression in MinIO.

Block is Faster than Object Storage and Other Myths

Ugur Tigli Ugur Tigli on Performance 29 April 2022

Setting the record straight on how to compare multiple storage technologies.

Building Performant Data Infrastructure with Apache Arrow and MinIO

Jonathan Symonds Jonathan Symonds on Apache Arrow 28 April 2022

There is a lot of momentum around Apache Arrow these days. A favorite of developers and data practitioners, its use in business-critical applications has grown considerably and data driven organizations like Dremio, InfluxData, Snowflake, Streamlit, and Tellius are all heavily invested. The drivers of this adoption are superior interoperability, simpler data architectures, greater speed and efficiency, more choice of tools