Operate Portworx on VMware Tanzu

This page describes operations for Portworx clusters on VMWare Tanzu.

Scale down clusters

A Portworx cluster on Tanzu can contain a mixture of storage and storageless nodes.

When scaling down a Tanzu cluster, do not scale down the cluster size lower than the total number of storage nodes in the Portworx cluster.

You can find out the number of storage nodes by running pxctl status on any Portworx node. This will list all nodes in the cluster and mention which ones are storage nodes.

To control the number of storage nodes in the cluster, use the spec.cloudStorage.maxStorageNodesPerZone or spec.cloudStorage.maxStorageNodes configuration in StorageCluster.