Working with hosts

The hosts are the compute nodes of the IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center. You can work with the hosts with the operations add, edit, and remove.

Adding hosts
The IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center installation is first on the management node and adds the compute node (namely host) later. When the management node is installed correctly, you can log on to the IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center with your username and password. As the UI shows, select Add Host on the Hosts page to add a host. However, before you add host, it is necessary to complete some requirements.
Editing hosts
You can update the host connection information with the IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center.
Removing hosts
To remove a host, you have two options: the common removal method or the force removal method.
Understanding schedulers and placement policies
Note for host management of multi-node cluster
a). You can do host management (add/edit/remove host), only, when all management nodes of the multi-node cluster are alive, or else it fails to manage the host (add/edit/remove the host) for the error message:

Parent topic: Administrator tasks