Quiescing a CephStorage Node¶

Take the OSDs out of the cluster¶

Before you remove an OSD, you need to take it out of the cluster so that Ceph can begin rebalancing and copying its data to other OSDs. Running the following commands on a given cephstorage node will take all data out of the OSDs hosted on it:

OSD_IDS=$(ls /var/lib/ceph/osd | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "-" } ; { print $2 }')
for OSD_ID in $OSD_IDS; do ceph crush reweight osd.$OSD_ID 0.0; done

Ceph will begin rebalancing the cluster by migrating placement groups out of the OSDs. You can observe this process with the ceph tool:

ceph -w

You should see the placement group states change from active+clean to active, some degraded objects, and finally active+clean when migration completes.

Removing the OSDs¶

After the rebalancing, the OSDs will still be running. Running the following on that same cephstorage node will stop all OSDs hosted on it, remove them from the CRUSH map, from the OSDs map and delete the authentication keys:

OSD_IDS=$(ls /var/lib/ceph/osd | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "-" } ; { print $2 }')
for OSD_ID in $OSD_IDS; do
  ceph osd out $OSD_ID
  systemctl stop ceph-osd@$OSD_ID
  ceph osd crush remove osd.$OSD_ID
  ceph auth del osd.$OSD_ID
  ceph osd rm $OSD_ID
done

You are now free to reboot or shut down the node (using the Ironic API), or even remove it from the overcloud altogether by scaling down the overcloud deployment, see Deleting Overcloud Nodes.