5.4. Reinstalling an Existing Host as a Self-Hosted Engine Node
You can convert an existing, regular host in a self-hosted engine environment to a self-hosted engine node capable of hosting the Manager virtual machine.
Procedure
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Click
and select the host. -
Click
and click . -
Click
. - Click the Hosted Engine tab and select DEPLOY from the drop-down list.
- Click .
The host is reinstalled with self-hosted engine configuration, and is flagged with a crown icon in the Administration Portal.
After reinstalling the hosts as self-hosted engine nodes, you can check the status of the new environment by running the following command on one of the nodes:
hosted-engine --vm-status
# hosted-engine --vm-status
If the new environment is running without issue, you can decommission the original physical Manager machine.