Discourage rebalance, warn against stopping it

Open feorlen opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Starting point for temporary guidance while we fix issues with stopping a rebalance operation.

Staged

Warning on stop for older versions:

http://192.241.195.202:9000/staging/rebalance-stop-guidance/linux/reference/minio-mc-admin/mc-admin-rebalance.html

Discourage manual rebalance:

http://192.241.195.202:9000/staging/rebalance-stop-guidance/linux/operations/install-deploy-manage/expand-minio-deployment.html#writing-files
http://192.241.195.202:9000/staging/rebalance-stop-guidance/linux/operations/concepts.html#how-do-i-manage-object-distribution-across-a-minio-deployment

Mention unbalanced pool capacity in hardware checklist: http://192.241.195.202:9000/staging/rebalance-stop-guidance/linux/operations/checklists/hardware.html#use-consistent-drive-type-and-capacity

cc @kannappanr @harshavardhana @krisis

Aug 14 '24 22:08 feorlen

@kannappanr @harshavardhana made several edits with proposed text that is less scary about rebalance. Appreciate another look.

Left the warning about stop, but for older versions. What should we say about that?

Aug 22 '24 23:08 feorlen