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		})
		metrics = append(metrics, MetricV2{
			Description:    getClusterTransitionedObjectsMD(),
			Value:          float64(st.NumObjects),
			VariableLabels: map[string]string{"tier": tier},
		})
		metrics = append(metrics, MetricV2{
			Description:    getClusterTransitionedVersionsMD(),
			Value:          float64(st.NumVersions),
			VariableLabels: map[string]string{"tier": tier},
		})
	}

Transition tiers can be added to MinIO using `mc admin tier add` command to associate a `gcs`, `s3` or `azure` bucket or prefix path on a bucket to the tier name.
Lifecycle transition rules can be applied to buckets (both versioned and un-versioned) by specifying the tier name defined above as the transition storage class for the lifecycle rule.

## Implementation

	case madmin.Azure:
		d, err = newWarmBackendAzure(*tier.Azure, tier.Name)
	case madmin.GCS:
		d, err = newWarmBackendGCS(*tier.GCS, tier.Name)
	case madmin.MinIO:
		d, err = newWarmBackendMinIO(*tier.MinIO, tier.Name)
	default:
		return nil, errTierTypeUnsupported
	}
	if err != nil {
		return nil, errTierTypeUnsupported
	}

	if probe {
		if err = checkWarmBackend(ctx, d); err != nil {
			return nil, err

			return
		}

		op := auditTierOp{
			Tier:        tier,
			OutputBytes: bytes,
		}

		if err == nil {
			since := time.Since(startTime)
			op.TimeToResponseNS = since.Nanoseconds()
			globalTierMetrics.Observe(tier, since)
			globalTierMetrics.logSuccess(tier)
		} else {
			op.Error = err.Error()
			globalTierMetrics.logFailure(tier)
		}

policy_count=$(./mc admin policy list myminio/ | wc -l)

## create a warm tier instance
(minio server /tmp/xltier/{1...4}/disk{0...1} --address :9002 2>&1 >/dev/null) &
sleep 30

export MC_HOST_mytier="http://minioadmin:minioadmin@localhost:9002/"

./mc mb -l myminio/bucket2
./mc mb -l mytier/tiered

## create a tier and set up ilm policy to tier immediately

> To create a transition tier for transitioning objects to a prefix `testprefix` in `azurebucket` on Azure blob using `mc`:

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