[Gluster-users] Best practice: Scaling down / Removing Servers

Brian Candler
2012-04-14T19:41:36Z

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:36:41AM +0200, Philip wrote:
>    We have some issues with the RAID-Controller of our gluster servers. We
>    decided to buy complete new servers to replace the others but it is
>    quite unclear how to perform this task without downtime.
>    It is possible to add the new servers to the volume, rebalance it and
>    then get all the data off the old servers and remove them after this?

I'm no expert, but isn't that what replace-brick does?