# Decommissioning

Decommissiong is a mechanism in MinIO to drain older pools (usually with old hardware) and migrate the content from such pools to a newer pools (usually better hardware). Decommissioning spreads the data across all pools - for example, if you decommission `pool1`, all the data from `pool1` spreads across `pool2` and `pool3`.

## Features

			if err != nil {
				err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Pools")
				return
			}
			if cap(z.Pools) >= int(zb0002) {
				z.Pools = (z.Pools)[:zb0002]
			} else {
				z.Pools = make([]PoolStatus, zb0002)
			}
			for za0001 := range z.Pools {
				err = z.Pools[za0001].DecodeMsg(dc)
				if err != nil {
					err = msgp.WrapError(err, "Pools", za0001)
					return
				}
			}
		default:

		p.Pools[idx].LastUpdate = UTCNow()
		p.Pools[idx].Decommission.StartTime = time.Time{}
		p.Pools[idx].Decommission.Complete = false
		p.Pools[idx].Decommission.Failed = true
		p.Pools[idx].Decommission.Canceled = false
		return true
	}
	return false
}

func (p *poolMeta) DecommissionCancel(idx int) bool {
	if p.Pools[idx].Decommission != nil && !p.Pools[idx].Decommission.Canceled {

type rebalanceAdminStatus struct {
	ID        string                // identifies the ongoing rebalance operation by a uuid
	Pools     []rebalancePoolStatus `json:"pools"` // contains all pools, including inactive
	StoppedAt time.Time             `json:"stoppedAt"`
}

func rebalanceStatus(ctx context.Context, z *erasureServerPools) (r rebalanceAdminStatus, err error) {

				t.Error("expected success, got failure", err)
			}
			if err == nil {
				if len(sctx.Layout.pools) != 2 {
					t.Error("expected parsed pools to be 2, not", len(sctx.Layout.pools))
				}
				if sctx.Layout.pools[0].cmdline != testcase.hash {
					t.Error("expected hash", testcase.hash, "got", sctx.Layout.pools[0].cmdline)
				}
			}
		})
	}
}

// Tests initializing new object layer.

    address: ":8022"
    ssh-private-key: "/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa"
```

If you are using the config `v1` YAML you should migrate your `pools:` field values to the following format

`v1` format
```yaml
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
    - "https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/"
    - "https://server{1...2}-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/"

	GetPools() []int
}

type localPeerS3Client struct {
	node  Node
	pools []int
}

func (l *localPeerS3Client) GetHost() string {
	return l.node.Host
}

func (l *localPeerS3Client) SetPools(p []int) {
	l.pools = make([]int, len(p))
	copy(l.pools, p)
}

func (l localPeerS3Client) GetPools() []int {
	return l.pools
}

version: v1
address: ':9000'
console-address: ':9001'
certs-dir: '/home/user/.minio/certs/'
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server1-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server3-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server4-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool2:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'

	setDriveCount uint64
}

// buildDisksLayoutFromConfFile supports with and without ellipses transparently.
func buildDisksLayoutFromConfFile(pools []poolArgs) (layout disksLayout, err error) {
	if len(pools) == 0 {
		return layout, errInvalidArgument
	}

	for _, list := range pools {
		var endpointsList endpointsList

		for _, arg := range list.args {
			switch {
			case ellipses.HasList(arg):

version:
address: ':9000'
console-address: ':9001'
certs-dir: '/home/user/.minio/certs/'
pools: # Specify the nodes and drives with pools
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server1-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server3-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
        - 'https://server4-pool1:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'
  -
        - 'https://server-example-pool2:9000/mnt/disk{1...4}/'