I've realized that moving an HE host to another DC/CL is not prevented, leading to an awkward situation for which the host is UP in the new CL but still retains the "silver crown". Moreover, "hosted-engine --vm-status" on another HE host still show the departed host with score 0. The same situation can be achieved removing an HE host that was previously set in Maintenance. I think those operations should be prevented for HE hosts and a warning message like "Please undeploy HE first" should be displayed. Otherwise trigger the HE undeployment on host move/remove. B.R., Stefano Stagnaro