Re: [Users] Remove host from hosted-engine setup

From: "Frank Wall" <fw(a)moov.de&gt; To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org, "Greg Padgett" <gpadgett(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Jiri Moskovcak" <jmoskovc(a)redhat.com&gt;, "Martin Sivak" <msivak(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:05:49 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Remove host from hosted-engine setup Hi Doron, On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:49:30AM -0500, Doron Fediuck wrote: > This is still in the works, but the right way to retire a host > is first to put it into local maintenance (there's CLI for it > and hopefully by 3.4 GA we will do it when you use the UI to put > a host into maintenance). > Once the host is in local HA maintenance, stale data is no longer > reported, which should give you a valid status report. > > Just FYI, we prefer to keep the original data for forensics, as > HA behavior is sensitive and we'd like to be able to trace back > in case of a failure. thanks for this clarification. Would it be possible to "overwrite" a retired host by choosing the same Host ID for a new host? Thanks - Frank