Endpoint{URL: case4URLs[1], IsLocal: case4LocalFlags[1]},
			Endpoint{URL: case4URLs[2], IsLocal: case4LocalFlags[2]},
			Endpoint{URL: case4URLs[3], IsLocal: case4LocalFlags[3]},
		}, DistErasureSetupType, nil},

		{":9000", []string{case5Endpoint1, case5Endpoint2, case5Endpoint3, case5Endpoint4}, ":9000", Endpoints{
			Endpoint{URL: case5URLs[0], IsLocal: case5LocalFlags[0]},
			Endpoint{URL: case5URLs[1], IsLocal: case5LocalFlags[1]},

type Node struct {
	*url.URL
	Pools    []int
	IsLocal  bool
	GridHost string
}

// Endpoint - any type of endpoint.
type Endpoint struct {
	*url.URL
	IsLocal bool

	PoolIdx, SetIdx, DiskIdx int
}

// Equal returns true if endpoint == ep
func (endpoint Endpoint) Equal(ep Endpoint) bool {

            return !(isLocal(url.getHost()) || url.getProtocol().equals("file"));
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            // bad url just skip it here. It should have been validated already, but the wagon lookup will deal with it
            return false;
        }
    }

    private static boolean isLocal(String host) {

// IsOnline - returns whether REST client failed to connect or not.
func (c *lockRESTClient) IsOnline() bool {
	return c.connection.State() == grid.StateConnected
}

// Not a local locker
func (c *lockRESTClient) IsLocal() bool {
	return false
}

// Close - marks the client as closed.
func (c *lockRESTClient) Close() error {
	return nil
}

// String - returns the remote host of the connection.

	// Based on the random shuffling return back randomized disks.
	r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(time.Now().UnixNano()))

	for _, i := range r.Perm(len(disks)) {
		if disks[i] != nil && disks[i].IsLocal() {
			newDisks = append(newDisks, disks[i])
		}
	}

	return newDisks
}

func (er erasureObjects) getLocalDisks() (newDisks []StorageAPI) {
	disks := er.getDisks()

	network := make(map[string]string)
	for _, ep := range endpointServerPools {
		for _, endpoint := range ep.Endpoints {
			if endpoint.IsLocal {
				poolNumbers[endpoint.PoolIdx+1] = struct{}{}
			}
			nodeName := endpoint.Host
			if nodeName == "" {
				nodeName = addr
			}
			if endpoint.IsLocal {
				// Only proceed for local endpoints
				network[nodeName] = string(madmin.ItemOnline)
				continue
			}

		return err == errDiskNotFound
	}
	return d.disk.IsOnline()
}

func (d *naughtyDisk) LastConn() time.Time {
	return d.disk.LastConn()
}

func (d *naughtyDisk) IsLocal() bool {
	return d.disk.IsLocal()
}

func (d *naughtyDisk) Endpoint() Endpoint {
	return d.disk.Endpoint()
}

func (d *naughtyDisk) Hostname() string {
	return d.disk.Hostname()
}

	// first node. The following is required to serialize (the effects of)
	// concurrent rebalance-start commands.
	if ep := globalEndpoints[0].Endpoints[0]; !ep.IsLocal {
		for nodeIdx, proxyEp := range globalProxyEndpoints {
			if proxyEp.Endpoint.Host == ep.Host {
				if proxyRequestByNodeIndex(ctx, w, r, nodeIdx) {
					return
				}
			}
		}
	}

	cleanUp     bool
	healthCheck bool
}

// Depending on the disk type network or local, initialize storage API.
func newStorageAPI(endpoint Endpoint, opts storageOpts) (storage StorageAPI, err error) {
	if endpoint.IsLocal {
		storage, err := newXLStorage(endpoint, opts.cleanUp)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
		return newXLStorageDiskIDCheck(storage, opts.healthCheck), nil
	}

	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("unexpected error %v", err)
	}
	endpointLocal, err := NewEndpoint("http://localhost:9012")
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("unexpected error %v", err)
	}
	endpointLocal.IsLocal = true

	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
	defer cancel()
	err = initGlobalLockGrid(ctx, []PoolEndpoints{{Endpoints: Endpoints{endpoint, endpointLocal}}})
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}