1. Maintenance Guide
  2. Maintaining Exadata Database Servers
  3. Changing Existing Elastic Configurations for Database Servers
  4. Dropping a Database Server from an Oracle RAC Cluster

2.13.3 Dropping a Database Server from an Oracle RAC Cluster

You can remove a database server that is a member of an Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) cluster.

  1. Stop Oracle Grid Infrastructure on the database server to be removed.
    $ Grid_home/bin/crsctl stop crs
  2. Remove the database server from the cluster by completing the steps in Remove the Database Server from the Cluster.
  3. Download and run the latest Exachk to ensure that the resulting configuration implements the latest best practices for Oracle Exadata.

Parent topic: Changing Existing Elastic Configurations for Database Servers