Replacing an Access Appliance node
In some cases, you may need to replace a Access Appliance node. This section describes the steps to replace a Access Appliance node.
It is not recommended to delete the node where the management console is running. however, if you want to delete this node, you should first switch the management console on to other node and then attempt to the delete node.
To switch the management console node:
- Go to the Access command-line interface.
- Run the network ip addr show command and note the console IP address.
- Run the network ip addr online console_ip target_node command.
You will exit the Access command-line interface. You need to log in again.
To replace an Access Appliance node:
- Before you delete the node from the cluster, make sure that you do not remove the CVM master node. To remove the CVM master node, you need to switch the CVM master node by switching the Management Console to another node.
- Power-off the node to delete. Once the node is powered-off, run the cluster del command for the node that is to be replaced.
rvclus>cluster del node-name
- Reimage the deleted node with the same ISO as before. Upgrade the node if required to bring the deleted node to the same version as the cluster node.
- Run the cluster add command to add reimaged node to the cluster.
rvclus>cluster add node-ip