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Deleting a cluster

Deleting a cluster - Windows Server Tutorial

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Deleting a cluster

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- [Narrator] Let's cover deleting a cluster in Windows Server 2016. Sometimes, you just need to delete a cluster to start over due to corruption or due to the fact you may no longer need a cluster on your server. So, we're taking a look here at our Cluster7 cluster here at the top and any rolls that we have are going to want to stop and delete. So, you can right-click on them and choose to stop the role. Make sure any data that's associated with it gets moved as well and then we can choose to remove that role. We also want to remove any storage, so if you have any storage which we don't see here, but if you see storage, then you can just right-click on that and choose to remove it. If you have any pools or enclosures, do the same. We can leave the networks, however. There's no need to delete those first, as those will go down with the cluster itself. Now let's go to the nodes. So, if you have multiple nodes in your cluster, you'll want to right-click and choose to remove those…

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