Reference Guide

Maintaining Your Cluster 57
Removing Nodes From Clusters Running
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
1 Move all resource groups to another cluster node.
2 Click the Start button, select Programs → Administrative Tools → Cluster
Administrator
.
3 In Cluster Administrator, right-click the icon of the node you want to
uninstall and then select
Stop Cluster Service .
4 In Cluster Administrator, right-click the icon of the node you want to
uninstall and then select
Evict Node .
If you cannot evict the node or the node is the last node in the cluster:
a Open a command prompt.
b Ty p e cluster node <node_name> /force
where <node_name> is the cluster node you are evicting from the
cluster.
5 Close Cluster Administrator.
Running chkdsk /f on a Quorum Resource
NOTE: You cannot run the chkdsk command with the /f (fix) option on a device that
has an open file handle active. Because MSCS maintains an open file handle on the
quorum resource, you cannot run chkdsk /f on the hard drive that contains the
quorum resource.
1 Move the quorum resource temporarily to another drive.
2 Right-click the cluster name and select Properties .
3 Click the Quorum tab.
4 Select another disk as the quorum resource and press <Enter>.
5 Run chkdsk /f on the drive that previously stored the quorum resource.
6 Move the quorum resource back to the original drive.