docs/data/reusables/enterprise_clustering/replacing-a-cluster-node-modify-cluster-conf.md

1. To add the newly provisioned replacement node, on any node, modify the cluster.conf file to remove the failed node and add the replacement node. For example, this modified cluster.conf file replaces ghe-data-node-3 with the newly provisioned node, ghe-replacement-data-node-3:

   [cluster "ghe-replacement-data-node-3"]
     hostname = ghe-replacement-data-node-3
     ipv4 = 192.168.0.7
     # ipv6 = fd12:3456:789a:1::7
     consul-datacenter = PRIMARY-DATACENTER
     git-server = true
     pages-server = true
     mysql-server = true
     elasticsearch-server = true
     redis-server = true
     memcache-server = true
     metrics-server = true
     storage-server = true
   

   You can choose to defer database seeding of a new MySQL replica node, resulting in being able to open your appliance to traffic sooner. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.