Originally from the User Slack
@Shivaprasad_Bhat: Hi team!
We had a Scylla cluster with 3 nodes containing a keyspace with RF=3 (NetworkTopolgyStrategy)..
We removed one node due to some cost reasons (in a dev environment). The node status was showing as DN on sctool. What is the process to remove the node from this? Do we need to reduce RF first?
@Piotr_Smaroń: down scale procedure is summarized here https://opensource.docs.scylladb.com/stable/operating-scylla/procedures/cluster-management/remove-node.html
Remove a Node from a ScyllaDB Cluster (Down Scale) | ScyllaDB Docs