[Users] Remove host from hosted-engine setup

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Wall" <fw at moov.de>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org, "Greg Padgett" <gpadgett at redhat.com>, "Jiri Moskovcak" <jmoskovc at redhat.com>, "Martin Sivak"
> <msivak at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:05:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Remove host from hosted-engine setup
> 
> Hi Doron,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:49:30AM -0500, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> > This is still in the works, but the right way to retire a host
> > is first to put it into local maintenance (there's CLI for it
> > and hopefully by 3.4 GA we will do it when you use the UI to put
> > a host into maintenance).
> > Once the host is in local HA maintenance, stale data is no longer
> > reported, which should give you a valid status report.
> > 
> > Just FYI, we prefer to keep the original data for forensics, as
> > HA behavior is sensitive and we'd like to be able to trace back
> > in case of a failure.
> 
> thanks for this clarification. Would it be possible to "overwrite"
> a retired host by choosing the same Host ID for a new host?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> - Frank
> 

Hi Frank,
yes. I'm assuming you're going to assign a new host with the
retired's host ID. In this case the data will be overwritten.
If you have any issues, please report.

Thanks!
Doron