Number of pods will need to reduce to 12 from 15 due to persistent volume, node count/VM size restraints
When deleting a Statefulset, the persistent volume claims do not auto delete themselves and thus the persistent volumes also do not auto delete. This is also the case when number of replicas are decreased eg: 12 agents down to 10. Two persistent volumes will not be deleted. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/55045
disks are using default StorageClassName using Standard SSD's