Operations

This section provides documentation for operating and maintaining AIStor Object Store deployments. Use this documentation for Day 2 and ongoing operational tasks in production environments, including monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting, and managing production AIStor deployments.

Core concepts explain the foundational technologies that underpin AIStor. Understanding topics like erasure coding, distributed architecture, and data protection mechanisms provides a foundation for effectively operating your cluster.

AIStor provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities to maintain reliability and performance. Use metrics, logging, audit trails, and healthcheck endpoints to track deployment health and identify performance bottlenecks.

As storage needs grow or change, you can scale your AIStor deployment by adding server pools to expand capacity or decommissioning pools to remove aging hardware.

For planned maintenance tasks, node maintenance tools allow you to gracefully take nodes offline without disrupting cluster operations. Cordon nodes before hardware maintenance, OS updates, or rolling upgrades.

AIStor includes tools to help you be ready in the event of hardware and software failures. The failure and recovery documentation covers handling drive failures, node failures, and disaster recovery scenarios.

AIStor requires valid enterprise licenses. The license management documentation covers the registration and renewal of the MinIO Commercial License used by AIStor.

Use batch key rotation to rotate encryption keys without disrupting ongoing operations.