Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)

Removing a node from

Storage Foundation Cluster

File System clusters

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About removing a node from a cluster

■ Removing a node from a cluster

■ Modifying the VCS configuration files on existing nodes

■ Removing the node configuration from the CP server

■ Removing security credentials from the leaving node

■ Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after

removing a node

■ Sample configuration file for removing a node from the cluster

About removing a node from a cluster

You can remove one or more nodes from an SFCFS cluster if the node no longer

needs to be part of the cluster.

Removing a node from a cluster requires:

■ Stopping applications that use File System or Cluster File System mount points

not configured under VCS.

■ Stopping VCS on the node to be removed.

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