expNames  []string
	}{
		// Test1: missing some sites in replicated setup
		{
			[]madmin.PeerInfo{
				{Endpoint: "minio1:9000", Name: "minio1", DeploymentID: "dep1"},
				{Endpoint: "minio2:9000", Name: "minio2", DeploymentID: "dep2"},
				{Endpoint: "minio3:9000", Name: "minio3", DeploymentID: "dep3"},
			},
			set.CreateStringSet("dep1", "dep2", "dep3"),
			set.CreateStringSet("dep1"),
			[]string{"minio2", "minio3"},
		},

			}
			if info.DeploymentID != v.DeploymentID {
				return madmin.ReplicateEditStatus{}, errSRInvalidRequest(fmt.Errorf("Endpoint %s does not belong to deployment expected: %s (found %s) ", peer.Endpoint, v.DeploymentID, info.DeploymentID))
			}
		}
	}

	// if disable/enable ILM expiry replication, deployment id not needed.

	}

	if format.ID == "" {
		return nil, errors.New("deployment ID missing from disk format, unable to start the server")
	}

	return format, nil
}

// Format disks before initialization of object layer.
func waitForFormatErasure(firstDisk bool, endpoints Endpoints, poolCount, setCount, setDriveCount int, deploymentID string) (storageDisks []StorageAPI, format *formatErasureV3, err error) {

		format := newFormatErasureV3(setCount, setDriveCount)
		format.ID = deploymentID
		for i := range setCount { // for each erasure set
			for j := range setDriveCount {
				newFormat := format.Clone()
				newFormat.Erasure.This = format.Erasure.Sets[i][j]
				if deploymentID != "" {
					newFormat.ID = deploymentID
				}
				drive := pool.Endpoints[i*setDriveCount+j]

	flag.StringVar(&deploymentID, "deployment-id", "", "MinIO deployment ID, obtained from 'format.json'")
	flag.IntVar(&setCount, "set-count", 0, "Total set count")
	flag.IntVar(&shards, "shards", 0, "Total shards count")
	flag.BoolVar(&verbose, "v", false, "Display all objects")

	flag.Parse()

	if deploymentID == "" {
		log.Fatalln("deployment ID is mandatory")
	}

	if setCount == 0 {

		// skip self
		if globalDeploymentID() == info.DeploymentID {
			continue
		}
		info := info
		wg.Add(connectionsPerPeer)
		for range connectionsPerPeer {
			go func() {
				defer wg.Done()
				ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, duration+10*time.Second)
				defer cancel()
				perfNetRequest(
					ctx,
					info.DeploymentID,

		return nil
	}
	for _, peer := range info.Sites {
		if peer.DeploymentID == globalDeploymentID() {
			continue
		}
		rs, err := loadSiteResyncMetadata(ctx, objAPI, peer.DeploymentID)
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		sm.Lock()
		if _, ok := sm.peerResyncMap[peer.DeploymentID]; !ok {
			sm.peerResyncMap[peer.DeploymentID] = resyncState{resyncID: rs.ResyncID, LastSaved: time.Time{}}

		field, err = dc.ReadMapKeyPtr()
		if err != nil {
			err = msgp.WrapError(err)
			return
		}
		switch msgp.UnsafeString(field) {
		case "DeploymentID":
			z.DeploymentID, err = dc.ReadString()
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "DeploymentID")
				return
			}
		case "Endpoint":
			z.Endpoint, err = dc.ReadString()
			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Endpoint")
				return

		s.XferRateSml.measure.updateExponentialMovingAverage(time.Now())
	}
}

// SRMetric captures replication metrics for a deployment
type SRMetric struct {
	DeploymentID  string             `json:"deploymentID"`
	Endpoint      string             `json:"endpoint"`
	TotalDowntime time.Duration      `json:"totalDowntime"`
	LastOnline    time.Time          `json:"lastOnline"`

			return 0, err
		}

		// Decrement output size.
		write -= int64(n)

		// Increment written.
		totalWritten += int64(n)
	}

	// Success.
	return totalWritten, nil
}

// returns deploymentID from uploadID
func getDeplIDFromUpload(uploadID string) (string, error) {
	uploadBytes, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(uploadID)
	if err != nil {