diff --git a/gate/test_evacuate.sh b/gate/test_evacuate.sh
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-#!/bin/bash -x
-
-BASE=${BASE:-/opt/stack}
-# Source stackrc to determine the configured VIRT_DRIVER
-source ${BASE}/new/devstack/stackrc
-# Source tempest to determine the build timeout configuration.
-source ${BASE}/new/devstack/lib/tempest
-
-set -e
-# We need to get the admin credentials to run CLIs.
-set +x
-source ${BASE}/new/devstack/openrc admin
-set -x
-
-if [[ ${VIRT_DRIVER} != libvirt ]]; then
-   echo "Only the libvirt driver is supported by this script"
-   exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "Ensure we have at least two compute nodes"
-nodenames=$(openstack hypervisor list -f value -c 'Hypervisor Hostname')
-node_count=$(echo ${nodenames} | wc -w)
-if [[ ${node_count} -lt 2 ]]; then
-    echo "Evacuate requires at least two nodes"
-    exit 2
-fi
-
-echo "Finding the subnode"
-subnode=''
-local_hostname=$(hostname -s)
-for nodename in ${nodenames}; do
-    if [[ ${local_hostname} != ${nodename} ]]; then
-        subnode=${nodename}
-        break
-    fi
-done
-
-# Sanity check that we found the subnode.
-if [[ -z ${subnode} ]]; then
-    echo "Failed to find subnode from nodes: ${nodenames}"
-    exit 3
-fi
-
-image_id=$(openstack image list -f value -c ID | awk 'NR==1{print $1}')
-flavor_id=$(openstack flavor list -f value -c ID | awk 'NR==1{print $1}')
-network_id=$(openstack network list --no-share -f value -c ID | awk 'NR==1{print $1}')
-
-echo "Creating ephemeral test server on subnode"
-openstack server create --image ${image_id} --flavor ${flavor_id} \
---nic net-id=${network_id} --availability-zone nova:${subnode} --wait evacuate-test
-
-echo "Creating BFV test server on subnode"
-nova boot --flavor ${flavor_id} --poll \
---block-device id=${image_id},source=image,dest=volume,size=1,bootindex=0,shutdown=remove \
---nic net-id=${network_id} --availability-zone nova:${subnode} evacuate-bfv-test
-
-# Fence the subnode
-echo "Stopping n-cpu, q-agt and guest domains on subnode"
-_stop_services="devstack@n-cpu"
-if sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type service | grep -q "devstack@q-agt"; then
-    _stop_services+=" devstack@q-agt"
-fi
-$ANSIBLE subnodes --become -f 5 -i "$WORKSPACE/inventory" -m shell -a "systemctl stop $_stop_services"
-$ANSIBLE subnodes --become -f 5 -i "$WORKSPACE/inventory" -m shell -a "for domain in \$(virsh list --all --name); do  virsh destroy \$domain; done"
-
-echo "Forcing down the subnode so we can evacuate from it"
-openstack --os-compute-api-version 2.11 compute service set --down ${subnode} nova-compute
-
-count=0
-status=$(openstack compute service list --host ${subnode} --service nova-compute -f value -c State)
-while [ "${status}" != "down" ]
-do
-    sleep 1
-    count=$((count+1))
-    if [ ${count} -eq 30 ]; then
-        echo "Timed out waiting for subnode compute service to be marked as down"
-        exit 5
-    fi
-    status=$(openstack compute service list --host ${subnode} --service nova-compute -f value -c State)
-done
-
-echo "Stopping libvirt on the localhost before evacuating to trigger failure"
-sudo systemctl stop libvirtd
-
-# Now force the evacuation to *this* host; we have to force to bypass the
-# scheduler since we killed libvirtd which will trigger the libvirt compute
-# driver to auto-disable the nova-compute service and then the ComputeFilter
-# would filter out this host and we'd get NoValidHost. Normally forcing a host
-# during evacuate and bypassing the scheduler is a very bad idea, but we're
-# doing a negative test here.
-
-function evacuate_and_wait_for_error() {
-    local server="$1"
-
-    echo "Forcing evacuate of ${server} to local host"
-    # TODO(mriedem): Use OSC when it supports evacuate.
-    nova --os-compute-api-version "2.67" evacuate --force ${server} ${local_hostname}
-    # Wait for the instance to go into ERROR state from the failed evacuate.
-    count=0
-    status=$(openstack server show ${server} -f value -c status)
-    while [ "${status}" != "ERROR" ]
-    do
-        sleep 1
-        count=$((count+1))
-        if [ ${count} -eq ${BUILD_TIMEOUT} ]; then
-            echo "Timed out waiting for server ${server} to go to ERROR status"
-            exit 4
-        fi
-        status=$(openstack server show ${server} -f value -c status)
-    done
-}
-
-evacuate_and_wait_for_error evacuate-test
-evacuate_and_wait_for_error evacuate-bfv-test
-
-echo "Now restart libvirt and perform a successful evacuation"
-sudo systemctl start libvirtd
-sleep 10
-
-# Wait for the compute service to be enabled.
-count=0
-status=$(openstack compute service list --host ${local_hostname} --service nova-compute -f value -c Status)
-while [ "${status}" != "enabled" ]
-do
-    sleep 1
-    count=$((count+1))
-    if [ ${count} -eq 30 ]; then
-        echo "Timed out waiting for local compute service to be enabled"
-        exit 5
-    fi
-    status=$(openstack compute service list --host ${local_hostname} --service nova-compute -f value -c Status)
-done
-
-function evacuate_and_wait_for_active() {
-    local server="$1"
-
-    nova evacuate ${server}
-    # Wait for the instance to go into ACTIVE state from the evacuate.
-    count=0
-    status=$(openstack server show ${server} -f value -c status)
-    while [ "${status}" != "ACTIVE" ]
-    do
-        sleep 1
-        count=$((count+1))
-        if [ ${count} -eq ${BUILD_TIMEOUT} ]; then
-            echo "Timed out waiting for server ${server} to go to ACTIVE status"
-            exit 6
-        fi
-        status=$(openstack server show ${server} -f value -c status)
-    done
-}
-
-evacuate_and_wait_for_active evacuate-test
-evacuate_and_wait_for_active evacuate-bfv-test
-
-# Make sure the servers moved.
-for server in evacuate-test evacuate-bfv-test; do
-    host=$(openstack server show ${server} -f value -c OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:host)
-    if [[ ${host} != ${local_hostname} ]]; then
-        echo "Unexpected host ${host} for server ${server} after evacuate."
-        exit 7
-    fi
-done
-
-# Cleanup test servers
-openstack server delete --wait evacuate-test
-openstack server delete --wait evacuate-bfv-test