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6.4. Removing a Host from a Self-Hosted Engine Environment
If you wish to remove a self-hosted engine host from your environment, you will need to place the host into maintenance, disable the HA services, and remove the self-hosted engine configuration file.
Procedure 6.14. Removing a Host from a Self-Hosted Engine Environment
- In the Administration Portal, click the Hosts tab. Select the host and click Maintenance to set the host to the local maintenance mode. This action stops the
ovirt-ha-agentandovirt-ha-brokerservices. - Log in to the host and disable the HA services so the services are not started upon a reboot:
# systemctl disable ovirt-ha-agent # systemctl disable ovirt-ha-broker
- Remove the self-hosted engine configuration file:
- RHEL-based hypervisor:
# rm /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf
- RHEV-H:
# unpersist /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf # rm /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf
- In the Administration Portal, select the same host, and click Remove to open the Remove Host(s) confirmation window. Click .

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