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.

You can find detailed explanations for core concepts that underpin AIStor. Understanding topics like erasure coding, distributed architecture, and data protection mechanisms provide a foundation for effectively using 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.

AIStor comes with tools to keep you ready in the event 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.

Security operations like batch key rotation help maintain your deployment’s security posture over time. Use the batch framework to rotate SSE-S3 or SSE-KMS keys for encrypted objects without disrupting ongoing operations.