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How to remove a host from your Virtual SAN cluster

Duncan Epping · Jan 14, 2014 ·

The question “How to remove a host from your Virtual SAN cluster” has now popped up various times, so I figured I would write a short article around what the current procedure is. It is fairly straight forward to be honest, here we go:

  1. Place host in maintenance mode
  2. Delete disk group when “maintenance mode” is completed
  3. Move host out of the cluster
  4. Remove the VSAN VMkernel (not a requirement, but I prefer to clean things up)

That is it, now you can re-purpose the host for anything else.

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Server, Software Defined, Storage, vSAN 5.5, virtual san, VMware, vsan, vSphere

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  1. Rawlinson says

    14 January, 2014 at 18:00

    One thing to add Duncan. If VSAN is setup to automatic mode you have to change the setting to manual in order to be able to have the delete disk group icon available.

    • Duncan Epping says

      14 January, 2014 at 19:04

      good point

  2. ray says

    7 May, 2014 at 05:16

    My host is totally dead, I can’t manage it anymore. In this way, How could I remove it from vSan?

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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