1. Ensure state of your cluster can support the decommissioning of the target bookie. Check if stays true with one less bookie

Process of Decommissioning

1. Log on to the bookie node, check if there are underreplicated ledgers.

If there are, the decommission command will force them to be replicated. $ bin/bookkeeper shell listunderreplicated

2. Validate that there are no ledgers on decommissioned bookie $ bin/bookkeeper shell listledgers -bookieid <target bookieid>

Last step to verify is you could run this command to check if the bookie you decommissioned doesn’t show up in list bookies: