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# Decommissioning

Decommissiong is a mechanism in MinIO to drain older pools (usually with old hardware) and migrate the content from such pools to a newer pools (usually better hardware). Decommissioning spreads the data across all pools - for example, if you decommission `pool1`, all the data from `pool1` spreads across `pool2` and `pool3`.

## Features

	}

	var nmeta1 poolMeta
	nmeta1.Version = poolMetaVersion
	nmeta1.Pools = append(nmeta1.Pools, meta.Pools...)
	for i, pool := range nmeta1.Pools {
		if i == 0 {
			nmeta1.Pools[i] = PoolStatus{
				CmdLine:    pool.CmdLine,
				ID:         i,
				LastUpdate: UTCNow(),
				Decommission: &PoolDecommissionInfo{
					Complete: true,
				},
			}
		}
	}

	var nmeta2 poolMeta
	nmeta2.Version = poolMetaVersion

type rebalanceAdminStatus struct {
	ID        string                // identifies the ongoing rebalance operation by a uuid
	Pools     []rebalancePoolStatus `json:"pools"` // contains all pools, including inactive
	StoppedAt time.Time             `json:"stoppedAt"`
}

func rebalanceStatus(ctx context.Context, z *erasureServerPools) (r rebalanceAdminStatus, err error) {

version: v1
address: ':9000'
console-address: ':9001'
certs-dir: '/home/user/.minio/certs/'
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server1-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server3-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server4-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool2:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'

				t.Error("expected success, got failure", err)
			}
			if err == nil {
				if len(sctx.Layout.pools) != 2 {
					t.Error("expected parsed pools to be 2, not", len(sctx.Layout.pools))
				}
				if sctx.Layout.pools[0].cmdline != testcase.hash {
					t.Error("expected hash", testcase.hash, "got", sctx.Layout.pools[0].cmdline)
				}
			}
		})
	}
}

// Tests initializing new object layer.

    address: ":8022"
    ssh-private-key: "/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa"
```

If you are using the config `v1` YAML you should migrate your `pools:` field values to the following format

`v1` format
```yaml
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
    - "https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/"
    - "https://server{1...2}-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/"

version: v1
address: ':9000'
console-address: ':9001'
certs-dir: '/home/user/.minio/certs/'
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server{1...2}-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server3-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server4-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool2:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'

version:
address: ':9000'
console-address: ':9001'
certs-dir: '/home/user/.minio/certs/'
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server1-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server3-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server4-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool2:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'

        run: |
          ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.github/workflows/run-mint.sh "compress-encrypt" "minio" "minio123" "${{ steps.vars.outputs.sha_short }}"

      - name: multiple pools
        run: |
          ${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.github/workflows/run-mint.sh "pools" "minio" "minio123" "${{ steps.vars.outputs.sha_short }}"

      - name: standalone erasure
        run: |