Cluster shrinking can involve either the removal of some of the assigned SSDs or the removal of hosts from the system. The following operations are available:
- Listing all the drives and their states, in order to receive a view of currently-allocated resources and their status.
- Deactivating drives as the first step before removing a host.
- Removing (a subset of) SSD drives allocated for the cluster.
- Deactivating hosts, which can be used after deactivating drives in preparation for the removal of the host.
- Removing hosts in order to complete the cluster shrinking.