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# Reducing a Tenant's Resources

Tenant compute resources can be reduced on-the-fly, by:

* deleting a tenant node, or
* reducing the cores/RAM assigned to tenant nodes.

## Reduce cores/RAM provisioned to a Tenant Node

The tenant node does not need to be powered off to reduce resource settings; however, if those resources are currently in use by tenant workloads, they will not actually be reclaimed until VMs are shut down. Example: if you reduce a tenant node's RAM resources to 28GB while 32GB is in use by its VMs; the change can be made, but it does not automatically shut down or reclaim any RAM from running VMs.

## Delete a Tenant Node

In order to delete a tenant node, it must first be powered off.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**Do not delete the original tenant node; each tenant needs at least one node.**
{% endhint %}

1. Navigate to the **tenant dashboard**.
2. Click **Nodes** on the left menu.
3. **Double-click the desired node** in the list.
4. **If needed, migrate or power off VMs and Power off** the node, then return to the tenant node list. (Use the browser back button or the "Tenant Nodes" breadcrumb.)
5. **Select** the **node**.
6. Click **Delete** on the left menu.


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