Hi Strahil and Yedidyah, As agreed, short summary: Deploy new HE host fails Pre Deploy state: * Host1 and Host3 are current HE HA pool * Host1 and Host3 are unaware of Host2 (check below) * I am trying to add Host2 to HE HA pool * Host2 is fully reinstalled – clean OS * Host2 is added to oVirt as regular Host * Host2 is currently in Maintenance mode (waiting for Reinstall with HE Deploy) [root@ovirt-sj-03 ~]# hosted-engine --vm-status --== Host ovirt-sj-01.ictv.com (id: 1) status ==-- conf_on_shared_storage : True Status up-to-date : True Hostname : ovirt-sj-01.ictv.com Host ID : 1 Engine status : {"reason": "vm not running on this host", "health": "bad", "vm": "down", "detail": "unknown"} Score : 3400 stopped : False Local maintenance : False crc32 : d15bb877 local_conf_timestamp : 3103909 Host timestamp : 3103909 Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=3103909 (Thu May 6 01:42:06 2021) host-id=1 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=3103909 (Thu May 6 01:42:06 2021) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineDown stopped=False --== Host ovirt-sj-03.ictv.com (id: 3) status ==-- conf_on_shared_storage : True Status up-to-date : True Hostname : ovirt-sj-03.ictv.com Host ID : 3 Engine status : {"health": "good", "vm": "up", "detail": "Up"} Score : 3400 stopped : False Local maintenance : False crc32 : 15801717 local_conf_timestamp : 3106395 Host timestamp : 3106395 Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=3106395 (Thu May 6 01:42:13 2021) host-id=3 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=3106395 (Thu May 6 01:42:13 2021) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=EngineUp stopped=False Deployment: I have attached logs from Host2 and Engine – if anything is missing, please let me know. Kindly awaiting your reply. You might notice slight time change on Host2 logs – that’s after re-provisioning I did not set correct timezone ----- kind regards/met vriendelijke groeten Marko Vrgotic Sr. System Engineer @ System Administration ActiveVideo o: +31 (35) 6774131 m: +31 (65) 5734174 e: m.vrgotic@activevideo.com<mailto:m.vrgotic@activevideo.com> w: www.activevideo.com<http://www.activevideo.com> ActiveVideo Networks BV. Mediacentrum 3745 Joop van den Endeplein 1.1217 WJ Hilversum, The Netherlands. The information contained in this message may be legally privileged and confidential. It is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or ActiveVideo Networks, LLC by telephone at +1 408.931.9200 and delete or destroy any copy of this message.