Break a Server 2012 r2 2 node cluster

RSprott 1 Reputation point
2020-09-14T17:15:10.497+00:00

I have a Windows 2012 r2 two node file server failover cluster that has a iSCSI volume attached with file shares. I was wanting to get rid of the cluster and just have one server take care of this.
Are the steps simply, destroy the cluster and take one of the servers to run the file shares? Or is there another method that I should take?

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  1. Xiaowei He 9,871 Reputation points
    2020-09-15T06:15:51.69+00:00

    Hi,

    As far as I'm concerned, you may simply remove one node from the Cluster, leave the Cluster to be a just one node cluster, if you leave the cluster to be one node, please configure a witness for the cluster.

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    Thanks for your time!
    Best Regards,
    Anne

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  2. Shashank Singh 6,246 Reputation points
    2020-09-15T06:26:15.493+00:00

    You can simply remove the node from cluster. First on the node please go and stop cluster service and then evict the node. The details are given in this blog.

    If somehow you are not able to remove you also have option to force remove node from cluster 

    C:\>cluster node node_name /forcecleanup

    After destroying the cluster build a new standalone machine and create new fileshare again.

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