Remove Bricks

You can shrink volumes, as needed, while the cluster is online and available. For example, you might need to remove a brick that has become inaccessible in a distributed volume due to hardware or network failure.

Note: Data residing on the brick that you are removing will no longer be accessible; only the configuration information is removed - you can continue to access the data directly from the brick, as necessary.

To remove bricks from an existing volume, perform the following steps.

Choose from the menu, toolbar, or right click and select the Volume and select Remove Bricks.
If the volume is currently running, you are asked to confirm before deleting a brick.
If you wish to remove the brick permanently, click Remove Bricks, Delete Data.
If you wish to keep the data but remove the brick, click Remove Bricks, Keep Data.
The Remove Brick from Volume window is displayed indicating that the volume was deleted successfully.
Click OK.