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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node


You may find that you want to permanently remove a host from your VSAN cluster. The equipment might age out and get replaced or fail, or you may find that you don't need as much VSAN capacity and that the server could be more efficiently used elsewhere in the infrastructure. To avoid legacy information from lingering in the VSAN configuration and on the host, the host should be fully decommissioned before removal from the VSAN cluster.

Getting ready

You should be logged into vSphere Client as an administrator.

How to do it…

  1. In vSphere Web Client, navigate to Home | Hosts and Clusters | Datacenter | VSAN Cluster | Host.

  2. Place the host that you wish to decommission into the maintenance mode.

    Tip

    As this is a permanent removal, please select the Full data migration option for the maintenance mode. If this is not possible due to inadequate capacity or very few nodes, choose the Ensure accessibility mode and immediately replace the node.

  3. Destroy all disk groups...