[SOLVED] ID already exist on a removed host

[grobs]

Hello,

I recently removed a node from my Proxmox 4 cluster.
Now, I'm having toubles trying to create containers reusing ID that already existed in the recently removed node ("proxmox-07'").

# pct create 131 [...]
CT 131 already exists on node 'proxmox-07'

But pvecm nodes confirms that this node is not existing any more in the cluster:

# pvecm nodes
Membership information
----------------------
    Nodeid      Votes Name
         1          1 proxmox-01 (local)
         2          1 proxmox-02
         3          1 proxmox-03
         4          1 proxmox-04
         7          1 proxmox-05
         5          1 proxmox-06

Note: I still see the previously removed "proxmox-07" node in the Proxmox web interface.

What can I do to properly remove the old node and reuse those falsy existing IDs?

Regards

 

[Alwin]

ls /etc/pve/nodes/*/lxc/

Please check if you find any vmid.conf there.

 

[grobs]

Thanks for your quick reply.

Yes, the configuration files are there, in a "proxmox-07" directory.
Can I safely remove this directory?

 

[Alwin]

If the CT/VM disks of those machines don't exist, then there should be no problem to remove them. But if the disks exist, then a move of the config file to the a host with access to those disks might quicker and keeps any leftovers disks away.

 

[grobs]

Thank you Alwin, it worked as expected.