How to remove Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster nodes from an existing cluster without losing quorum?

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Issue

  • How to remove some nodes from existing cluster without losing cluster quorum?
  • Procedure to remove some nodes from existing cluster

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • Red Hat Cluster Suite
    • 3 or more nodes in cluster
    • Permanently or temporarily removing nodes from the cluster which will cause it to lose quorum.

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