Installation Manual

Maintaining Your Cluster 53
To remove the last node from a cluster:
1
Right-click the node you want to remove and click Evict Node , as shown
in Figure 10-1. This returns the cluster to its original state. You can add it
again later to the same cluster or to a different cluster.
Figure 10-1. Cluster Administrator- Evict Node
If you cannot start the cluster service or if you have trouble removing the
node, you can manually un-configure the cluster service on a node as follows:
1
On the node you want to remove, open a command prompt. Click Start →
Run and enter cmd .
2 At the command prompt, enter cluster node <nodename>
/forcecleanup
.
NOTE: If the cluster service does not exist in the registry, the command does not
respond. To create a place holder, enter
sc create clussvc at the
command line.
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