Receive error VM HostedEngine is down

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Issue

  • Hosted-engine environment with multiple hypervisors all configured as hosted-engines
  • The Hosted Engine VM (HEVM) is alive and well but there is a constant error reported in the "Events" section
  • Every hypervisor that is not hosting the Hosted Engine is giving this error:
Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: VM HostedEngine is down. 
Exit message: internal error Failed to acquire lock: error -243.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.4.0
  • ovirt-hosted-engine-setup

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