RHEV - a host has gone non-responsive, and fencing has failed, how can I recover the running virtual guests?

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Issue

  • A host in the rhev environment has gone non-responsive
  • Fencing of the host has failed also (due to hardware issue, incorrect password, etc...)
  • Virtual machines on the host are in an 'unknown' state

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

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