diff --git a/gate/test_evacuate.sh b/gate/test_evacuate.sh
index 1dfbc8a12c5f..19c339342a20 100755
--- a/gate/test_evacuate.sh
+++ b/gate/test_evacuate.sh
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ 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 all services and guest domains on subnode"
+$ANSIBLE subnodes --become -f 5 -i "$WORKSPACE/inventory" -m shell -a "systemctl stop devstack@*"
+$ANSIBLE subnodes --become -f 5 -i "$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