ghost server after leaving cluster

[doctator2281]

Hey all, first time poster, long time user/lurker.

Recently I came into a situation where I had to remove a node from a cluster. This has usually gone perfectly fine for me, except for this time.

Usually, in order to remove a node, I'll do :

pvecm nodes

Locate the node I want to nuke, and do

pvecm delnode name

So when I did that this time, it seems to have worked. The "littlebiz" node is no longer in the list :

pvecm nodes



However, in the GUI, it's still there as a "ghost" .. and no matter what I do I can't make it go away. LOL



Would anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[fweber]

Hi, according to pvecm nodes the node is not part of the quorum anymore, which is fine. But most probably the directory /etc/pve/nodes/littlebiz still exists, which is why the GUI still shows the node. Make sure the node littlebiz is shut down, then you can try moving the directory out of /etc/pve/nodes on one of the two remaining nodes, e.g.:

mv /etc/pve/nodes/littlebiz /root

Afterwards, the GUI should not show the node anymore. If anything goes wrong, you can move the directory back to /etc/pve/nodes using mv.

 

[doctator2281]

That was exactly it. Thank you for your help!