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  2. NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
  3. Section IV. Maintenance
  4. Uninstalling
  5. Uninstalling MSDP Scalout from Kubernetes cluster
  6. Cleaning up MSDP Scaleout
NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters

Cleaning up MSDP Scaleout

When you uninstall the MSDP Scaleout deployment from AKS or EKS, the MSDP engines, MSDP MDS servers, and the data is deleted from the cluster. The data is lost and cannot be recovered.

To clean up MSDP Scaleout from AKS or EKS

  1. Delete the MSDP Scaleout CR.

    kubectl delete -f <sample-cr-yaml>

    When an MSDP Scaleout CR is deleted, the critical MSDP data and metadata is not deleted. You must delete it manually. If you delete the CR without cleaning up the data and metadata, you can re-apply the same CR YAML file to restart MSDP Scaleout again by reusing the existing data.

  2. If your storage class is with the Retain policy, you must write down the PVs that are associated with the CR PVCs for deletion in the Kubernetes cluster level.

    kubectl get pod,svc,deploy,rs,ds,pvc,secrets,certificates,issuers,cm,sa,role,rolebinding -n <sample-namespace> -o wide

    kubectl get clusterroles,clusterrolebindings,pv -o wide --show-labels|grep <sample-cr-name>

  3. Delete all resources under the namespace where MSDP CR is deployed.

    kubectl delete namespace <namespace>

  4. If your storage class is with the Retain policy, you must delete the Azure disks using Azure portal or delete the EBS volumes using Amazon console. You can also use the Azure or AWS CLI.

    AKS: az disk delete -g $RESOURCE_GROUP --name $AZURE_DISK --yes

    EKS: aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id <value>

See Deploying MSDP Scaleout.

See Reinstalling MSDP Scaleout operator.

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