Thank you for all the information provided. For OLVM (i dont know if only for them) this helped me: # touch /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh # chown root:root /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh # chmod 644 /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh # vi /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh --- ###########proxy export http_proxy=http://<PROXY_FQDN/IP>:<port> export HTTPS_PROXY=http://<PROXY_FQDN/IP>:<port> export https_proxy=http://<PROXY_FQDN/IP>:<port> export HTTP_PROXY=http://<PROXY_FQDN/IP>:<port> export no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1,<Self_Hosted_Engine_FQDN> --- # source /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh (Load configuration for current session) Make sure you have set proxy in /etc/yum.conf and/or /etc/dnf/dnf.conf Add extra vars to the deployment command: # touch /root/extra-vars.yml # vi /root/extra-vars.yml --- he_pause_host: true he_proxy: http://<PROXY_FQDN/IP>:<port> --- # hosted-engine --deploy --restore-from-file=backup_file --ansible-extra-vars="@/root/extra-vars.yml" Best regards, Rok