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Your Data Center license is based on the number of users in your cluster, rather than the number of nodes. This means you can add and remove nodes from your Data Center cluster at any time.
To add a node:
To remove a node, stop Confluence on that node. You can then remove the installation and local home directory as required.
To see the number of nodes remaining go to > General Configuration > Clustering.