# Using MinIO with Veeam

When using Veeam Backup and Replication, you can use S3 compatible object storage such as MinIO as a capacity tier for backups.  This disaggregates storage for the Veeam infrastructure and allows you to retain control of your data. With the ease of use of setup and administration of MinIO, it allows a Veeam backup admin to easily deploy their own object store for capacity tiering.

## Prerequisites

In a typical modern infrastructure deployment, application, database, key-store, etc. already live in containers and are managed by orchestration platforms. MinIO brings robust, scalable, AWS S3 compatible object storage to the lot.

[![MinIO](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minio/master/.github/logo.svg?sanitize=true)](https://min.io)

MinIO is a High Performance Object Storage released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. It is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Use MinIO to build high performance infrastructure for machine learning, analytics and application data workloads.

Guava's Maven group ID is `com.google.guava`, and its artifact ID is `guava`.
Guava provides two different "flavors": one for use on a (Java 8+) JRE and one
for use on Android or by any library that wants to be compatible with Android.
These flavors are specified in the Maven version field as either `33.1.0-jre` or
`33.1.0-android`. For more about depending on Guava, see
[using Guava in your build].

Additionally, it does not require any network rules/routing/config in the host network namespace, which greatly increases ambient mode compatibility with 3rd-party CNIs. In virtually all cases, this "in-pod" ambient CNI is exactly as compatible with 3rd-party CNIs as sidecars are/were.

### Notable Env Vars

| [**WebIdentity**](https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/docs/sts/web-identity.md) | Let users request temporary credentials using any OpenID(OIDC) compatible web identity providers such as KeyCloak, Dex, Facebook, Google etc. |

mapreduce.task.io.sort.factor=999 # Threshold before writing to disk
mapreduce.task.sort.spill.percent=0.9 # Minimum % before spilling to disk
```

kind: IstioOperator
spec:
  components:
    cni:
      enabled: true
```

The operator validates the configuration and automatically detects syntax errors. If you are
using Helm values that are incompatible, the schema validation used in the operator may reject input that is valid for
Helm.
Each Istio component has K8s settings, and these can be overridden from the defaults using official K8s APIs rather than

## List of metrics exposed by MinIO

- MinIO exports Prometheus compatible data by default as an authorized endpoint at `/minio/v2/metrics/cluster`. 
- MinIO exports Prometheus compatible data by default which is bucket centric as an authorized endpoint at `/minio/v2/metrics/bucket`.
- MinIO exports Prometheus compatible data by default which is node centric as an authorized endpoint at `/minio/v2/metrics/node`.

## Monitoring MinIO in Kubernetes

MinIO server exposes un-authenticated liveness endpoints so Kubernetes can natively identify unhealthy MinIO containers. MinIO also exposes Prometheus compatible data on a different endpoint to enable Prometheus users to natively monitor their MinIO deployments.

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