On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:33 AM Louis Bohm <louisbohm(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: No. To shut down a host you should do: In oVirt UI (or via the API): 1. Shut down vms running on host 2. Put host to maintenance 3. Shut down the host If you have more than one host, you can simply do: 1. Put host to maintenance 2. Shut down the host oVirt will migrate the VMs to other hosts. More hosts are useful but not required. You can automate this using the oVirt API, SDK, or ansible, and add a service that runs at shutdown and does what you want. Nir