diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java
index a16bfdc26b..a8fe4949ae 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeStateMachine.java
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
     .CloseContainerHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine.commandhandler
     .CommandDispatcher;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine.commandhandler
-    .ContainerReportHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine.commandhandler
     .DeleteBlocksCommandHandler;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.ozoneimpl.OzoneContainer;
@@ -88,7 +86,6 @@ public DatanodeStateMachine(DatanodeDetails datanodeDetails,
      // When we add new handlers just adding a new handler here should do the
      // trick.
     commandDispatcher = CommandDispatcher.newBuilder()
-        .addHandler(new ContainerReportHandler())
         .addHandler(new CloseContainerHandler())
         .addHandler(new DeleteBlocksCommandHandler(
             container.getContainerManager(), conf))
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/commandhandler/ContainerReportHandler.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/commandhandler/ContainerReportHandler.java
deleted file mode 100644
index fbea2901ec..0000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/commandhandler/ContainerReportHandler.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with this
- * work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF
- * licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * <p>
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * <p>
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
- * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
- * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
- * the License.
- */
-package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine.commandhandler;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto
-    .StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.ContainerReportsRequestProto;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto
-    .StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine
-    .EndpointStateMachine;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine
-    .SCMConnectionManager;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine.StateContext;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.ozoneimpl.OzoneContainer;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.protocol.commands.SCMCommand;
-import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-/**
- * Container Report handler.
- */
-public class ContainerReportHandler implements CommandHandler {
-  static final Logger LOG =
-      LoggerFactory.getLogger(ContainerReportHandler.class);
-  private int invocationCount;
-  private long totalTime;
-
-  /**
-   * Constructs a ContainerReport handler.
-   */
-  public ContainerReportHandler() {
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Handles a given SCM command.
-   *
-   * @param command - SCM Command
-   * @param container - Ozone Container.
-   * @param context - Current Context.
-   * @param connectionManager - The SCMs that we are talking to.
-   */
-  @Override
-  public void handle(SCMCommand command, OzoneContainer container,
-      StateContext context, SCMConnectionManager connectionManager) {
-    LOG.debug("Processing Container Report.");
-    invocationCount++;
-    long startTime = Time.monotonicNow();
-    try {
-      ContainerReportsRequestProto containerReport =
-          container.getContainerReport();
-
-      // TODO : We send this report to all SCMs.Check if it is enough only to
-      // send to the leader once we have RAFT enabled SCMs.
-      for (EndpointStateMachine endPoint : connectionManager.getValues()) {
-        endPoint.getEndPoint().sendContainerReport(containerReport);
-      }
-    } catch (IOException ex) {
-      LOG.error("Unable to process the Container Report command.", ex);
-    } finally {
-      long endTime = Time.monotonicNow();
-      totalTime += endTime - startTime;
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Returns the command type that this command handler handles.
-   *
-   * @return Type
-   */
-  @Override
-  public SCMCmdType getCommandType() {
-    return SCMCmdType.sendContainerReport;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Returns number of times this handler has been invoked.
-   *
-   * @return int
-   */
-  @Override
-  public int getInvocationCount() {
-    return invocationCount;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Returns the average time this function takes to run.
-   *
-   * @return long
-   */
-  @Override
-  public long getAverageRunTime() {
-    if (invocationCount > 0) {
-      return totalTime / invocationCount;
-    }
-    return 0;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/states/endpoint/HeartbeatEndpointTask.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/states/endpoint/HeartbeatEndpointTask.java
index 2f1db391ed..01b4c72428 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/states/endpoint/HeartbeatEndpointTask.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/states/endpoint/HeartbeatEndpointTask.java
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.container.common.statemachine.StateContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.protocol.commands.CloseContainerCommand;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.protocol.commands.DeleteBlocksCommand;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.protocol.commands.SendContainerCommand;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -133,10 +132,6 @@ private void processResponse(SCMHeartbeatResponseProto response,
           .equalsIgnoreCase(datanodeDetails.getUuid()),
           "Unexpected datanode ID in the response.");
       switch (commandResponseProto.getCmdType()) {
-      case sendContainerReport:
-        this.context.addCommand(SendContainerCommand.getFromProtobuf(
-            commandResponseProto.getSendReport()));
-        break;
       case reregisterCommand:
         if (rpcEndpoint.getState() == EndPointStates.HEARTBEAT) {
           if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/protocol/commands/SendContainerCommand.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/protocol/commands/SendContainerCommand.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 84317526e7..0000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/protocol/commands/SendContainerCommand.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * <p>
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * <p>
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.protocol.commands;
-
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto
-    .StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto
-    .StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SendContainerReportProto;
-
-/**
- * Allows a Datanode to send in the container report.
- */
-public class SendContainerCommand extends SCMCommand<SendContainerReportProto> {
-  /**
-   * Returns a NullCommand class from NullCommandResponse Proto.
-   * @param unused  - unused
-   * @return NullCommand
-   */
-  public static SendContainerCommand getFromProtobuf(
-      final SendContainerReportProto unused) {
-    return new SendContainerCommand();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * returns a new builder.
-   * @return Builder
-   */
-  public static SendContainerCommand.Builder newBuilder() {
-    return new SendContainerCommand.Builder();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Returns the type of this command.
-   *
-   * @return Type
-   */
-  @Override
-  public SCMCmdType getType() {
-    return SCMCmdType.sendContainerReport;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Gets the protobuf message of this object.
-   *
-   * @return A protobuf message.
-   */
-  @Override
-  public byte[] getProtoBufMessage() {
-    return SendContainerReportProto.newBuilder().build().toByteArray();
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A Builder class this is the standard pattern we are using for all commands.
-   */
-  public static class Builder {
-    /**
-     * Return a null command.
-     * @return - NullCommand.
-     */
-    public SendContainerCommand build() {
-      return new SendContainerCommand();
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/proto/StorageContainerDatanodeProtocol.proto b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/proto/StorageContainerDatanodeProtocol.proto
index 91070b373a..20e6af8c36 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/proto/StorageContainerDatanodeProtocol.proto
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/proto/StorageContainerDatanodeProtocol.proto
@@ -186,10 +186,9 @@ Type of commands supported by SCM to datanode protocol.
 enum SCMCmdType {
   versionCommand = 2;
   registeredCommand = 3;
-  sendContainerReport = 4;
-  reregisterCommand = 5;
-  deleteBlocksCommand = 6;
-  closeContainerCommand = 7;
+  reregisterCommand = 4;
+  deleteBlocksCommand = 5;
+  closeContainerCommand = 6;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -199,11 +198,10 @@ message SCMCommandResponseProto {
   required SCMCmdType cmdType = 2; // Type of the command
   optional SCMRegisteredCmdResponseProto registeredProto = 3;
   optional SCMVersionResponseProto versionProto = 4;
-  optional SendContainerReportProto sendReport = 5;
-  optional SCMReregisterCmdResponseProto reregisterProto = 6;
-  optional SCMDeleteBlocksCmdResponseProto deleteBlocksProto = 7;
-  required string datanodeUUID = 8;
-  optional SCMCloseContainerCmdResponseProto closeContainerProto = 9;
+  optional SCMReregisterCmdResponseProto reregisterProto = 5;
+  optional SCMDeleteBlocksCmdResponseProto deleteBlocksProto = 6;
+  required string datanodeUUID = 7;
+  optional SCMCloseContainerCmdResponseProto closeContainerProto = 8;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/container/replication/InProgressPool.java b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/container/replication/InProgressPool.java
index af878bf97f..c444e904d7 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/container/replication/InProgressPool.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/container/replication/InProgressPool.java
@@ -21,12 +21,10 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.node.NodeManager;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.scm.node.NodePoolManager;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.DatanodeDetails;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.HddsProtos.NodeState;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto
     .StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.ContainerInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto
     .StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.ContainerReportsRequestProto;
-import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.protocol.commands.SendContainerCommand;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -36,19 +34,10 @@
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-import static com.google.common.util.concurrent.Uninterruptibles
-    .sleepUninterruptibly;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.HddsProtos.NodeState
-    .HEALTHY;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.HddsProtos.NodeState
-    .INVALID;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.HddsProtos.NodeState.STALE;
-
 /**
  * These are pools that are actively checking for replication status of the
  * containers.
@@ -177,56 +166,10 @@ public void startReconciliation() {
     nodeProcessed = new AtomicInteger(0);
     containerProcessedCount = new AtomicInteger(0);
     nodeCount = new AtomicInteger(0);
-    /*
-       Ask each datanode to send us commands.
-     */
-    SendContainerCommand cmd = SendContainerCommand.newBuilder().build();
-    for (DatanodeDetails dd : datanodeDetailsList) {
-      NodeState currentState = getNodestate(dd);
-      if (currentState == HEALTHY || currentState == STALE) {
-        nodeCount.incrementAndGet();
-        // Queue commands to all datanodes in this pool to send us container
-        // report. Since we ignore dead nodes, it is possible that we would have
-        // over replicated the container if the node comes back.
-        nodeManager.addDatanodeCommand(dd.getUuid(), cmd);
-      }
-    }
     this.status = ProgressStatus.InProgress;
     this.getPool().setLastProcessedTime(Time.monotonicNow());
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Gets the node state.
-   *
-   * @param datanode - datanode information.
-   * @return NodeState.
-   */
-  private NodeState getNodestate(DatanodeDetails datanode) {
-    NodeState  currentState = INVALID;
-    int maxTry = 100;
-    // We need to loop to make sure that we will retry if we get
-    // node state unknown. This can lead to infinite loop if we send
-    // in unknown node ID. So max try count is used to prevent it.
-
-    int currentTry = 0;
-    while (currentState == INVALID && currentTry < maxTry) {
-      // Retry to make sure that we deal with the case of node state not
-      // known.
-      currentState = nodeManager.getNodeState(datanode);
-      currentTry++;
-      if (currentState == INVALID) {
-        // Sleep to make sure that this is not a tight loop.
-        sleepUninterruptibly(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
-      }
-    }
-    if (currentState == INVALID) {
-      LOG.error("Not able to determine the state of Node: {}, Exceeded max " +
-          "try and node manager returns INVALID state. This indicates we " +
-          "are dealing with a node that we don't know about.", datanode);
-    }
-    return currentState;
-  }
-
   /**
    * Queues a container Report for handling. This is done in a worker thread
    * since decoding a container report might be compute intensive . We don't
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMDatanodeProtocolServer.java b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMDatanodeProtocolServer.java
index 58b8c82840..6e5b7debe5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMDatanodeProtocolServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/server-scm/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/scm/server/SCMDatanodeProtocolServer.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMVersionRequestProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMVersionResponseProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMRegisteredCmdResponseProto;
-import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SendContainerReportProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMReregisterCmdResponseProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCommandResponseProto;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType;
@@ -46,7 +45,6 @@
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType.versionCommand;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType.registeredCommand;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType.sendContainerReport;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType.reregisterCommand;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType.deleteBlocksCommand;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.hdds.protocol.proto.StorageContainerDatanodeProtocolProtos.SCMCmdType.closeContainerCommand;
@@ -318,11 +316,6 @@ public void join() throws InterruptedException {
           .setCmdType(versionCommand)
           .setVersionProto(SCMVersionResponseProto.getDefaultInstance())
           .build();
-    case sendContainerReport:
-      return builder
-          .setCmdType(sendContainerReport)
-          .setSendReport(SendContainerReportProto.getDefaultInstance())
-          .build();
     case reregisterCommand:
       return builder
           .setCmdType(reregisterCommand)