# Distributed Server Design Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io)

This document explains the design, architecture and advanced use cases of the MinIO distributed server.

## Command-line

```
NAME:
  minio server - start object storage server

USAGE:
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR1 [DIR2..]
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR{1...64}
  minio server [FLAGS] DIR{1...64} DIR{65...128}

DIR:

d'ivoire","croatia","cuba","curaçao","cyprus","czechia","denmark","djibouti","dominica","dominican republic","ecuador","egypt","el salvador","equatorial guinea","eritrea","estonia","ethiopia","falkland islands","faroe islands","fiji","finland","france","french guiana","french polynesia","french southern territories","gabon","gambia","georgia","germany","ghana","gibraltar","greece","greenland","grenada","guadeloupe","guam","guatemala","guernsey","guinea","guinea-bissau","guyana","haiti","heard island and mcdonald...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

Configure resource requests and limits ## ref: http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/compute-resources/ ## resources: requests: memory: 16Gi ## List of users to be created after minio install ## users: ## Username, password and policy to be assigned to the user ## Default policies are [readonly|readwrite|writeonly|consoleAdmin|diagnostics] ## Add new policies as explained here https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-multi-user-quickstart-guide.html ## NOTE: this will fail if LDAP is enabled in your MinIO deployment...

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 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
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 * @author Mike Bostock
 * @since 1.0
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  /**

 * Otherwise, at least reduce <i>explicit</i> dependencies on this type by using lambda expressions
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 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
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 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
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