Thursday, November 15, 2018

Evict and Destroy a Cluster

In powershell,

get-clusternode

#Please do the following steps first.
# Step 1. Pause and Drain Role on a secondary node
# Step 2. Stop Cluster service on the node to be evicted

#Now proceed to remove a secondary cluster Node

Remove-ClusterNode -Name ServerName

#Now on the last node, Remove the cluster and cleanup

Get-Cluster ClusterName | Remove-Cluster -Force -CleanupAD

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