Scale Down an Appliance

Scale down an appliance by removing the unused hardware resources.

1. Launch NavOps.
   The list of appliances is displayed.

   
   
   Figure 1. Appliances

   The list displays the Appliance Name, Model Name that is selected for this appliance, Cloud Provider of the appliance, Appliance State, Nodes Count and Uptime (number of days the appliance is up and running).

   Note: Click to change the column list that is displayed.
2. Click the appliance name from the Appliances list.
   The Cloud tab displays the appliance details.
3. Click Scale in the left pane.
   The Scale tab is displayed.
4. Click Scale DOWN .
   The Nodes table displays the number of deployed nodes and its statuses.
5. Select the check box of an additional node that you deployed while scaling up an appliance.

   
   
   Figure 2. Select a Node to Scale Down

6. Click Undeploy.
   A confirmation message to undelpoy the node from the appliance is displayed.

   
   
   Figure 3. Undeploy Nodes

7. Click Yes.
   The selected node starts undeploying.

   The Activity tab displays the undeploying progress of the node.

   The Scale tab displays the undeploying status of the selected node.

   
   
   Figure 4. Node Undeploying

   
   
   Figure 5. Available nodes and its status

   Once it is undeployed, the selected node is removed from the list.