IBM General Parallel File System for AIX: Administration and Programming Reference

Deleting nodes from a GPFS cluster

You can delete nodes from a GPFS cluster by issuing the mmdelcluster command. You must follow these rules when deleting nodes:

• You may only issue the command from a node that will remain in the GPFS cluster.
• The nodes being deleted cannot be part of any nodeset. The -c option must be used on the mmdelnode command prior to deleting the nodes from the GPFS cluster to adjust the list of cluster nodes in the GPFS cluster data.
• The nodes being deleted cannot be the primary or secondary GPFS cluster data server. Verify this by issuing the mmlscluster command. If they are, issue the mmchcluster command before deleting the nodes.

To delete the nodes listed in a file called nodes_to_delete, enter:

mmdelcluster -n /tmp/nodes_to_delete

Where nodes_to_delete contains the nodes k145n06 and k145n47.

To confirm the deletion of the nodes, enter:

mmlscluster

The system displays information similar to:

GPFS cluster information                           
========================                           
  Cluster id:  gpfs0103263/15/01M03                
  Remote shell command:      /usr/bin/rsh          
  Remote file copy command:  /usr/bin/rcp          
                                                   
GPFS cluster data repository servers:              
-------------------------------------              
  Primary server:    k145n43.kgn.ibm.com        
  Secondary server:  k145n44.kgn.ibm.com        
                                                   
Nodes in nodeset set1:                                
----------------------                                
  1  k145n29  9.114.133.29  k145n29.kgn.ibm.com  
  2  k145n30  9.114.133.30  k145n30.kgn.ibm.com  
  3  k145n31  9.114.133.31  k145n31.kgn.ibm.com  
  4  k145n32  9.114.133.32  k145n32.kgn.ibm.com  
                                                   
Nodes in nodeset set2:                              
----------------------                              
  5  k145n33  9.114.133.33  k145n33.kgn.ibm.com  
  6  k145n34  9.114.133.34  k145n34.kgn.ibm.com  
  7  k145n35  9.114.133.35  k145n35.kgn.ibm.com  
  8  k145n36  9.114.133.36  k145n36.kgn.ibm.com  
  9  k145n37  9.114.133.37  k145n37.kgn.ibm.com  
  10  k145n38  9.114.133.38  k145n38.kgn.ibm.com 
  11  k145n39  9.114.133.39  k145n39.kgn.ibm.com 
  12  k145n40  9.114.133.40  k145n40.kgn.ibm.com 
  13  k145n41  9.114.133.41  k145n41.kgn.ibm.com 
  14  k145n42  9.114.133.42  k145n42.kgn.ibm.com 
  15  k145n43  9.114.133.43  k145n43.kgn.ibm.com 
  16  k145n44  9.114.133.44  k145n44.kgn.ibm.com 
  17  k145n45  9.114.133.45  k145n45.kgn.ibm.com 
  18  k145n46  9.114.133.46  k145n46.kgn.ibm.com 
                                                   
Cluster nodes that are not assigned to a nodeset:  
-------------------------------------------------  
  19  k145n08  9.114.133.08  k145n08.kgn.ibm.com
 

See the mmdelcluster Command and the mmlscluster Command for complete usage information.