# 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:

import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * An iterator that supports a one-element lookahead while iterating.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CollectionHelpersExplained#peekingiterator">{@code
 * PeekingIterator}</a>.
 *
 * @author Mick Killianey
 * @since 2.0
 */

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...

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...