6.20.1 Removing a Guest from an Oracle RAC Cluster Using OEDACLI

You can use OEDACLI to remove a guest from a cluster.

The following procedure removes a guest from a cluster. If the guest is not part of a cluster, then you can skip the cluster-related commands.

1. Load the XML configuration file (es.xml for example) into OEDACLI.

   ./oedacli -c full_path_to_XML_file

2. Use the following OEDACLI commands to delete the database instance from the cluster node.

   DELETE GUEST WHERE srcname=guest_FQDN stepname=ADD_INSTANCE
   SAVE ACTION
   MERGE ACTIONS
   DEPLOY ACTIONS

3. Use the following OEDACLI commands to delete the Oracle Database home from the cluster.

   DELETE GUEST WHERE srcname=guest_FQDN stepname=EXTEND_DBHOME
   SAVE ACTION
   MERGE ACTIONS
   DEPLOY ACTIONS

4. Use the following OEDACLI commands to delete the guest node from the cluster.

   DELETE GUEST WHERE srcname=guest_FQDN stepname=ADD_NODE
   SAVE ACTION
   MERGE ACTIONS
   DEPLOY ACTIONS

5. Use the following OEDACLI commands to remove connectivity to the storage servers and delete the users on the guest.

   DELETE GUEST WHERE srcname=guest_FQDN stepname=CELL_CONNECTIVITY
   SAVE ACTION
   DELETE GUEST WHERE srcname=guest_FQDN stepname=CREATE_USERS
   SAVE ACTION
   MERGE ACTIONS
   DEPLOY ACTIONS

6. Use the following OEDACLI commands to remove the guest.

   DELETE GUEST WHERE srcname=guest_FQDN stepname=CREATE_GUEST
   SAVE ACTION
   MERGE ACTIONS
   DEPLOY ACTIONS

7. Save the updated configuration information.
   Specify the full path to a directory where the updated configuration information will be saved.

   SAVE FILES LOCATION=output_directory

8. View the list of existing guests on the KVM host.

   # /opt/exadata_ovm/vm_maker --list-domains

   The guest you just removed should not be listed.