Previously, site replication required the root credentials of peer sites to be identical. This is no longer necessary because STS tokens are now signed with the site replicator service account credentials, thus allowing flexibility in the independent management of root accounts across sites and the ability to disable root accounts eventually.

```
 mc admin tier add azure source AZURETIER --endpoint https://blob.core.windows.net --access-key AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME --secret-key AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY  --bucket azurebucket --prefix testprefix1/
```

> The admin user running this command needs the "admin:SetTier" and "admin:ListTier" permissions if not running as root.

  login credentials.

- Allows authentication and access for all
  - Built-in IDP users and their respective service accounts
  - LDAP/AD users and their respective service accounts
  - OpenID/OIDC service accounts

- On versioned buckets, FTP/SFTP only operates on latest objects, if you need to retrieve

      - "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}/"
    set-drive-count: 4 # Advanced option, must be used under guidance from MinIO team.
```

### Things to know

- Fields such as `version` and `pools` are mandatory, however all other fields are optional.

Refer to the sizing guide with details on the default parity count chosen for different erasure stripe sizes [here](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/distributed/SIZING.md)

```

For example:

```
minio server http://host{1...4}/export{1...16} http://host{5...12}/export{1...16}
```

| Minimum number of servers                                       | 02            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 1      | 02            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 2 or 3 | 01            |
| Minimum number of drives per server when server count is 4      | 01            |
| Maximum number of drives per server                             | no-limit      |