Removing Hosts
==============
-A host can safely be removed from a the cluster after all daemons are removed
+A host can safely be removed from the cluster after all daemons are removed
from it.
To drain all daemons from a host, run a command of the following form:
ceph orch host drain *<host>*
-The '_no_schedule' label will be applied to the host. See :ref:`cephadm-special-host-labels`
+The ``_no_schedule`` label will be applied to the host. See
+:ref:`cephadm-special-host-labels`.
-All osds on the host will be scheduled to be removed. You can check osd removal progress with the following:
+All osds on the host will be scheduled to be removed. You can check the progress of the osd removal operation with the following command:
.. prompt:: bash #
ceph orch osd rm status
-see :ref:`cephadm-osd-removal` for more details about osd removal
+See :ref:`cephadm-osd-removal` for more details about osd removal.
-You can check if there are no deamons left on the host with the following:
+Use the following command to determine whether any daemons are still on the
+host:
.. prompt:: bash #
ceph orch ps <host>
-Once all daemons are removed you can remove the host with the following:
+After all daemons have been removed from the host, remove the host from the
+cluster by running the following command:
.. prompt:: bash #
Offline host removal
--------------------
-If a host is offline and can not be recovered it can still be removed from the cluster with the following:
+Even if a host is offline and can not be recovered, it can be removed from the
+cluster by running a command of the following form:
.. prompt:: bash #
ceph orch host rm <host> --offline --force
-This can potentially cause data loss as osds will be forcefully purged from the cluster by calling ``osd purge-actual`` for each osd.
-Service specs that still contain this host should be manually updated.
+.. warning:: This can potentially cause data loss. This command forcefully
+ purges OSDs from the cluster by calling ``osd purge-actual`` for each OSD.
+ Any service specs that still contain this host should be manually updated.
.. _orchestrator-host-labels: