Wiped and reloaded node hardware prior to removing from cluster - no quorum to remove it.

[toben88]

Hello,

I wanted to fix a hard drive issue so I deleted all VMs from a node and reformatted all the drives and created a new server with a new IP and name.

However now when following the instructions to remove the old node from the cluster, I no longer have a quorum.

There are only 2 physical machines. How do I delete one and add another without a quorum?

1. pve1 was reformated and needs to be removed from cluster
2. pve2 works and stays and is up
3. pve3 was built on the hardware from pve1 but it has a different ip and name. It needs to be added to cluster

How do I fix this without a quorum? I can't seem to add or delete.

 

[fiona]

Hi,
if pve2 is the only remaining node in the cluster, you need to use pvecm expected 1 to set the number of expected votes to 1. This command is intended exactly for this scenario where you can't reach quorum otherwise. After that, you should be able to remove pve1 with the pvecm delnode command and then add pve3.