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Chapter 7 Managing Hosts in VirtualCenter
Thehosticonchangesandtheterm“maintenancemode”isaddedtothenamein
parentheses.
5Movethehost:
a Selectthehosticonintheinventorypanel,anddragittothenewlocation.
Thehostcanbemovedtoanotherclusteroranotherdatacenter.Whenthenew
locationisselected,a
blueboxsurroundstheclusterordatacentername.
b Releasethemousebutton.
VirtualCentermovesthehosttothenewlocation.
6 Selectthehost,andfromthepop‐upmenuchooseExitMaintenanceMode.
7Restartanyvirtualmachines,asneeded.
Removing a Host from VirtualCenter
RemovingamanagedhostfromVirtualCenterbreakstheconnectionandstopsall
monitoringandmanagingfunctionsofthatmanagedhostandofallthevirtual
machinesonthatmanagedhost.Themanagedhostanditsassociatedvirtualmachines
areremovedfromtheinventory.Historicaldataremains intheVirtualCenterdatabase.
Removing
amanagedhostdiffersfromdisconnectingthemanagedhostfrom
VirtualCenter.DisconnectingamanagedhostdoesnotremoveitfromVirtualCenter;it
temporarilysuspendsallVirtualCentermonitoringactivities.Themanagedhostandits
associatedvirtualmachinesremainintheVirtualCenterinventory.
RemovingamanagedhostfromVirtualCenterdoesnotremovethe
virtualmachines
fromthemanagedhostordatastore.ItremovesonlyVirtualCenter’saccesstothe
managedhostandvirtualmachinesonthatmanagedhost.
Thefigurebelowillustratestheprocessforremovingamanagedhostfrom
VirtualCenter.Intheexamplehere,noticethelostlinkbetweentheVirtualCenter
Serverandthe
removedmanagedhost,whilethemanagedhostfilesremainonthe
datastore.
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OTEIfatallpossible,removemanagedhostswhiletheyareconnected.Removinga
disconnectedmanagedhostdoesnotremovetheVirtualCenteragentfromthe
managedhost.