How to force remove a not responding hypervisor from a Hosted Engine environment

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Issue

  • The host has been physically removed but it is still on the RHEV-M Portal. When trying to put it in Maintenance mode it fails with the below error message:
Error while executing action: Cannot switch Host to Maintenance mode.
Host still has running VMs on it and is in Non Responsive state.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.4
  • Hosted Engine

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