You can decommission a compute node.
- On the Edit Hardware Profile dialog box, you must select the Reinitialize Drives check box to perform a secure erase on all drives.
- SD cards, if present, are not erased when you select Reinitialize Drives.
Using a server, you must decommission it and put it in a clean state before returning it to the unassigned resources pool. Reinitialize the disks to put the server in a clean state. This process reverts the BMC settings, BIOS settings, RAID configuration, and so on, back to their baseline values.
- Edit the baseline profile (baseline-profile) with the instructions in Edit a hardware profile.
- Select and apply the baseline-profile to the server you want to decommission, with the instructions in Apply a hardware profile to compute nodes.