[ovirt-users] hosted-engine : how to shutdown hosts?

[Doron Fediuck]

On 02/03/15 12:25, Frank Wall wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 02:26:12AM -0500, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
>> You wrote '"shutdown -h now" on the hosts'. What happens if you shutdown
>> just one of them and then wait a bit? Does it get started too?
>>
>> Are you certain that 'shutdown -h now' worked on these hosts before the
>> setup - that it's not some kernel/bios/etc issue?
> 
> I've seen similar issues on some CentOS 7 hosts running on desktop-class
> hardware. I haven't got time for extensive debugging, but I'd bet it's a
> kernel or hardware-related issue (or a combination of both). There's
> nothing indicating that this is related to oVirt, at least in my case.
> 
> 
> Regards
> - Frank

Indeed so; there's no hardware level interaction in hosted engine.
Once you put the setup in global maintenance the nodes will only monitor
that state. So nothing is expected from the HA agent in case the VM or a
node goes down.