Re-deployment of the hosted engine with a backup file fails with "Cannot add Host. Host with the same address already exists."

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • When trying to re-deploy a self-hosted engine.
  • The deploy host is an existing host that has been reinstalled.
  • The deployment host fails with the error:
Cannot add Host. Host with the same address already exists.

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.4 SP1
  • Self-hosted engine
  • ovirt-ansible-collection-2.4.2-1.el8ev.noarch

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