Identify the Service Tag of the appliance that you want to remove. For details, see the
Hardware Information Guide for PowerStore 1000, 1200, 3000, 3200, 5000, 5200, 7000, 9000, and 9200 or
Hardware Information Guide for PowerStore 500T Model
.
If the appliance that you want to remove is not functional, contact your service provider for assistance with removing the appliance.
Ensure the appliance that you want to remove is not running NAS services.
Ensure that the appliance is not the only appliance in the cluster.
Stop and remove all running or scheduled import, migration, or replication jobs on the appliance to remove, and remove all remote systems that are associated with the appliance.
Before starting the appliance removal process, migrate storage objects from the appliance that you want to remove to another appliance in the cluster. To migrate storage objects, see
Migrate storage objects from an appliance.
About this task
A factory reset is performed on an appliance when it is removed from a cluster.
NOTE:When the appliance removal process is running, do not run commands that can change the state of the cluster, such as adding external hosts or changing CHAP configurations.
Steps
If the appliance you want to remove is the primary appliance in the cluster, run the following command to move the primary appliance to another appliance:
svc_cluster_management MovePrimaryAppliance -n <ID number of new primary node>
Under
Hardware, select
Appliances, and find the appliance with the Service Tag identified in Prerequisites.
Run the
svc_appliance_provisioning script to disable resource balancing and prevent objects from being automatically created or placed on the appliance that you want to remove.
Open an SSH client, and connect to the management IP address of the appliance to remove.
NOTE:External SSH management access must be enabled on the appliance.
Type the username and password of the service account to log in to the appliance.
Run the following command to display the names of the appliances in the cluster:
svc_appliance_provisioning list
Run the following command, where
appliance_name is the name of the appliance that you want to remove:
svc_appliance_provisioning disable appliance_name
Run the following command to ensure that the provision status of the appliance is disabled:
svc_appliance_provisioning list
Ensure that Node A is the primary node on the appliance to be removed using
PowerStore Manager.
The factory reset of the appliance cannot occur unless Node A is the primary node of the appliance .
Under
Hardware, select
Appliances, and select the appliance that you want to remove.
Select the
Components card, select the
Rear View tab.
Ensure that Node A is the primary node on the appliance.
If the Node B is the primary node of the appliance, select Node B in the
Rear View tab, and select
More Actions > Reboot to reboot Node B and make Node A the primary node.
If there still are storage objects on the appliance to be removed, use
PowerStore Manager to migrate the storage objects to another appliance in the cluster or remove the storage objects from the appliance.
Remove the appliance from the cluster in
PowerStore Manager.
NOTE:The system resets the appliance to original factory settings and powers it off during the removal process.
Under
Hardware, select
Appliances.
Select the check box of the appliance to remove.
Click
Remove.
The
Removing the Appliance dialog box is displayed.
Click
Remove.
The appliance is removed from the cluster and reset to its factory default settings. The appliance can be rediscovered and deployed to a new or existing cluster after it is reset to factory default settings.
NOTE:The factory reset of the appliance can take up to 1.5 hours to complete.
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