Hi Strahil Nikolov Thank you for the suggestion but it does not help... [root@beclovkvma01 ~]# sudo gluster volume remove-brick datastore1 replica 1 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick2/brick2 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick3/brick3 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick4/brick4 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick5/brick5 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick6/brick6 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick7/brick7 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick8/brick8 force Remove-brick force will not migrate files from the removed bricks, so they will no longer be available on the volume. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y volume remove-brick commit force: failed: need 14(xN) bricks for reducing replica count of the volume from 3 to 1 [root@beclovkvma01 ~]# sudo gluster volume remove-brick datastore1 replica 1 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick2/brick2 forceRemove-brick force will not migrate files from the removed bricks, so they will no longer be available on the volume. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y volume remove-brick commit force: failed: need 14(xN) bricks for reducing replica count of the volume from 3 to 1 [root@beclovkvma01 ~]# sudo gluster volume remove-brick datastore1 replica 2 beclovkvma02.bec..net:/data/brick2/brick2 force Remove-brick force will not migrate files from the removed bricks, so they will no longer be available on the volume. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y volume remove-brick commit force: failed: need 7(xN) bricks for reducing replica count of the volume from 3 to 2