Hi, I understood we have to put hosted-engine into maintenance mode and shutdown the VMs if we want to power off the host (otherwise it will reboot). I'm setting up a process to - put the HestedEngine in global maintenance mode (*hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global*) - shutdown the HostedEngine (*hosted-engine --vm-shutdown*) - PowerOff the HostedEngine (*hosted-engine --vm-poweroff*) - Power off the server (*shutdown -P*) Everything works fine and I can start the server back up, remove the HostedEngine from maintenance mode, and it will start automatically running. The issue is when bringing up hosted-engine: all VMs come up but one (*BigIP*) and I am trying to see if there is way to bring it up without having to store the engine password (using the *ovirt_vm* API). At the moment, I am having to look for the BigIP VM and then use credentials to bring it up: it will not come up with 'hosted-engine --vm-start' Is there to make this specific VM start the same time as the others VM automatically when HostedEngine starts? Thanks for your help. Regards, Eugène NG -- LesCDN <http://lescdn.com> engontang@lescdn.com ------------------------------------------------------------ *Aux hommes il faut un chef, et au* * chef il faut des hommes!L'habit ne fait pas le moine, mais lorsqu'on te voit on te juge!*