You can start, stop, and restart local, remote, and multiple Windows hosts. Find information on each of these options.
By default, all hosts that join the cluster remain in the cluster, even if they become unusable.
Optionally, after a period of time in the Unavailable state, a compute host can expire from the cluster—it no longer appears in the Console, or in egosh resource list or resource view output, and it is not affected by egosh start all or restart all commands.
Host expiry is not irreversible. If you restart an expired host (for example, run egosh ego start host_name or restart the host while automatic system startup is configured), it can rejoin the cluster in the same way that a newly installed host joins the cluster.
If you want to remove a management host from the cluster, a different procedure is required.
To configure the host expiry feature, take the following steps.