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Deleting a cluster

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Deleting a cluster

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- [Instructor] When we're all done with our cluster, or if our cluster has become corrupt or has other issues, we can destroy that cluster by deleting it. The first thing we need to do is to make sure that any roles that we have installed are removed. So we'll right-click and remove the BrokerServer role. Any other roles that are in there need to also go. We'll see that it stops, and then it deletes. Next thing we need to do is go to our Disks and right-click and choose to Remove From Cluster Shared Volumes. Click Yes, and then we'll right-click again and we'll remove it from our disk storage. This does not delete any data off of that disk storage. It's still available, it will switch from being a cluster shared volume to being a drive letter that shows up in your Windows Explorer. Next we'll go into our Nodes, go to More Actions, and choose Evict. That deleted our second host, and now we go to our first host, and we'll right-click, go to More Actions, and choose to stop the cluster…

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