Red Hat 3.0 Virtualization Platform Evaluation Guide
जाहिरात
जाहिरात
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
3.0
Evaluation Guide
Evaluation Tutorials for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Edition 1
Cheryn Tan
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Evaluation Guide
Evaluation Tutorials for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Edition 1
Cheryn Tan
Red Hat Engineering Co ntent Services [email protected] m
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Abstract
This document is a step-by-step evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. It shows you how to use your existing resources to quickly deploy a scalable cloud solution for your enterprise.
Table of Contents
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
2. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
3. Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
3.1. The Administration Portal Graphical User Interface
4. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
6.1. Create an NFS Data Domain
6.2. Create an iSCSI Data Domain
6.3. Create an FCP Data Domain
7. Attach and Populate ISO Domain
1. Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
2. Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Template
3. Clone a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
1.1. Add New Users in the IPA Directory
2. Assign PowerUserRole Permissions
3. Log in to the Power User Portal
4. Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
6. Create a Virtual Machine Template
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1. Define Storage Administrator
2. Define Virtual Machine Administrator
2. Configure Virtual Machine High Availability
3. High Availability - Host Initiated Reboot
4. High Availability - Virtual Machine Interruption
5. High Availability - Non-Operational Host
6. High Availability - Non-Responsive Host
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts
4. Attach New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts
6.1. Create an NFS Data Domain
6.2. Create an iSCSI Data Domain
6.3. Create an FCP Data Domain
1. Add Active Directory Domain
2. Create a Windows Virtual Machine
4. Create a Windows Virtual Machine from a Template
5. Assign Virtual Machine User Permissions
6. Connect to a Virtual Machine
7.2. Assign Pool User Permissions
7.4. Deallocate Virtual Desktop
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
2. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
3. Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
3.1. The Administration Portal Graphical User Interface
4. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
6. Attach and Populate ISO Domain
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Preface
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform provides fully integrated management across virtual machines on an enterprise scale. It is based on the leading open source virtualization platform and provides advanced technical capabilities.
1. About this Guide
This document is specially designed for potential users to evaluate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is supported by a complete and detailed documentation suite and online help.
This guide consists of nine specific tutorials which demonstrate the functionality and features of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, including the centralized management interface, the multi-level permission administration system, the virtual desktop end user experience, highly available clusters and virtual machine live migration.
The tutorials are organized into two tracks, reflecting the hardware availability of common enterprise environments. Track A consists of four basic labs and four advanced labs, while Track B consists of three basic labs and two advanced labs. Select a track that matches your hardware environment, and follow the labs to make an independent and in depth assessment of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
1.1. Audience
This document has been written for potential users to evaluate the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform. To complete the tracks a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization evaluation license is required. If you do not have an evaluation license, please contact your sales representative.
This document is intended for Linux or Windows system administrators with an advanced level of system administration, preferably including familiarity with virtual machine operations.
2. Document Conventions
This manual uses several conventions to highlight certain words and phrases and draw attention to specific pieces of information.
In PDF and paper editions, this manual uses typefaces drawn from the Liberation Fonts set. The
Liberation Fonts set is also used in HTML editions if the set is installed on your system. If not, alternative but equivalent typefaces are displayed. Note: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later include the Liberation
Fonts set by default.
2.1. Typographic Conventions
Four typographic conventions are used to call attention to specific words and phrases. These
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Preface conventions, and the circumstances they apply to, are as follows.
Mono-spaced Bold
Used to highlight system input, including shell commands, file names and paths. Also used to highlight keys and key combinations. For example:
To see the contents of the file my_next_bestselling_novel in your current working directory, enter the cat my_next_bestselling_novel command at the shell prompt and press Enter to execute the command.
The above includes a file name, a shell command and a key, all presented in mono-spaced bold and all distinguishable thanks to context.
Key combinations can be distinguished from an individual key by the plus sign that connects each part of a key combination. For example:
Press Enter to execute the command.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to a virtual terminal.
The first example highlights a particular key to press. The second example highlights a key combination: a set of three keys pressed simultaneously.
If source code is discussed, class names, methods, functions, variable names and returned values mentioned within a paragraph will be presented as above, in mono-spaced bold. For example:
File-related classes include filesystem for file systems, file for files, and dir for directories. Each class has its own associated set of permissions.
Proportional Bold
This denotes words or phrases encountered on a system, including application names; dialog box text; labeled buttons; check-box and radio button labels; menu titles and sub-menu titles. For example:
Choose System → Preferences → Mouse from the main menu bar to launch Mouse
Preferences. In the Buttons tab, select the Left-handed mouse check box and click
Close to switch the primary mouse button from the left to the right (making the mouse suitable for use in the left hand).
To insert a special character into a gedit file, choose Applications → Accessories →
Character Map from the main menu bar. Next, choose Search → Find… from the
Character Map menu bar, type the name of the character in the Search field and click
Next. The character you sought will be highlighted in the Character T able. Double-click this highlighted character to place it in the Text to copy field and then click the Copy button. Now switch back to your document and choose Edit → Paste from the gedit menu bar.
The above text includes application names; system-wide menu names and items; application-specific menu names; and buttons and text found within a GUI interface, all presented in proportional bold and all distinguishable by context.
Mono-spaced Bold Italic or Proportional Bold Italic
Whether mono-spaced bold or proportional bold, the addition of italics indicates replaceable or variable text. Italics denotes text you do not input literally or displayed text that changes depending on
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To connect to a remote machine using ssh, type ssh username@domain.name at a shell prompt. If the remote machine is example.com and your username on that machine is john, type ssh [email protected].
The mount -o remount file-system command remounts the named file system. For example, to remount the /home file system, the command is mount -o remount /home.
To see the version of a currently installed package, use the rpm -q package command. It will return a result as follows: package-version-release.
Note the words in bold italics above — username, domain.name, file-system, package, version and release. Each word is a placeholder, either for text you enter when issuing a command or for text displayed by the system.
Aside from standard usage for presenting the title of a work, italics denotes the first use of a new and important term. For example:
Publican is a DocBook publishing system.
2.2. Pull-quote Conventions
Terminal output and source code listings are set off visually from the surrounding text.
Output sent to a terminal is set in mono-spaced roman and presented thus: books Desktop documentation drafts mss photos stuff svn books_tests Desktop1 downloads images notes scripts svgs
Source-code listings are also set in mono-spaced roman but add syntax highlighting as follows: static int kvm_vm_ioctl_deassign_device( struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_assigned_pci_dev *assigned_dev)
{ int r = 0; struct kvm_assigned_dev_kernel *match;
mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
match = kvm_find_assigned_dev(&kvm->arch.assigned_dev_head,
assigned_dev->assigned_dev_id); if (!match) {
printk(KERN_INFO "%s: device hasn't been assigned before, "
"so cannot be deassigned \n " , __func__);
r = -EINVAL; goto out;
}
kvm_deassign_device(kvm, match);
kvm_free_assigned_device(kvm, match); out:
mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); return r;
}
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2.3. Notes and Warnings
Finally, we use three visual styles to draw attention to information that might otherwise be overlooked.
Note
Notes are tips, shortcuts or alternative approaches to the task at hand. Ignoring a note should have no negative consequences, but you might miss out on a trick that makes your life easier.
Important
Important boxes detail things that are easily missed: configuration changes that only apply to the current session, or services that need restarting before an update will apply. Ignoring a box labeled 'Important' will not cause data loss but may cause irritation and frustration.
Warning
Warnings should not be ignored. Ignoring warnings will most likely cause data loss.
3. We Need Feedback!
If you find a typographical error in this manual, or if you have thought of a way to make this manual better, we would love to hear from you! Please submit a report in Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ against the product Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
When submitting a bug report, be sure to mention the manual's identifier: Guides-Evaluation.
If you have a suggestion for improving the documentation, try to be as specific as possible when describing it. If you have found an error, include the section number and some of the surrounding text so we can find it easily.
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Introduction
This guide gets you started on a full featured Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization deployment using your existing resources. From installing a hypervisor, setting up shared storage and running a fully functional virtual machine, see how you can implement virtualization in your own organization. The tutorials are organized to reflect typical deployments from a small office with a few hosts, to a large enterprise with multiple data centers, and you can even test out a single host version at home. The tracks and tutorials are color coded to provide clear paths through this guide.
Once you have completed the tutorials (labs), arrange your own tracks for further evaluation or training.
The tracks are suggested examples only. Use them to understand how to deploy Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, and then work with our Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization solution architects to build your own unique environments.
Depending on your needs, use one of these tracks to evaluate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for your organization:
Evaluation Tracks
If you have shared storage, and two physical servers to install hosts, use Section 1, “Track A:
If you have one physical server to install a host, use Section 2, “Track B: Minimal Setup”
.
For both the tracks you need an evaluation license and a valid Red Hat Network subscription to the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux channels. Contact your sales representative if you do not have both of the above.
1. Track A: Standard Setup
Use Track A to install and configure a basic working Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment on several hosts using shared storage.
Track A consists of four basic labs and four advanced (optional) labs. In the basic labs, you learn how to create virtual machines and assign them to users. After you have completed the basic labs, you can do the advanced labs, if you wish.
The advanced labs describe how to apply Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to real-life enterprise operations. For example, protect against hardware failure for mission-critical operations by using high availability. If you have employees with different responsibilities, assign different levels of user permissions to virtual machines, storage and servers. If you have a number of existing hosts, you can learn how to reconfigure Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to be used as virtual machine hosts. You will also learn how to provision virtual desktops for end users.
If you have three to four physical servers and one shared storage resource, set up a Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environment by following the labs in Track A - Standard Setup. The labs in this track are color coded red, so to determine if a lab is part of Track A, look for a red square in the diagram at the start of each lab.
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Figure 1. Evaluation Track A
After you complete Track A, you will have the following environment with two virtual machines hosts, shared storage, a network, two portals, end-user clients and a host running the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager.
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Figure 2. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Standard Setup
Track A - Standard Setup Labs
Lab 1 - Install and Configure Basic Setup
— Install the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, configure storage and define networks (75 minutes).
Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
— Create virtual machines and templates from the administration portal (25 minutes).
Lab 3 - Live Migration Scenarios
— Configure automatic virtual machine live migration during hardware downtime (10 minutes).
— Create and manage virtual machines from the power user portal (35 minutes).
While the basic labs allow you to evaluate how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization can be deployed in your environment, the advanced labs show you how to optimize your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization setup.
Note that the advanced labs have additional hardware requirements, which are listed at the start of each advanced lab.
Track A - Advanced Labs (optional)
Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level Administrators
— Manage administrators for each component of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization (10 minutes).
Lab 6 - High Availability Scenarios
— Configure power management and high availability (30 minutes).
Lab 7 - Add Additional Data Center
— Create an additional data center with Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts. (35 minutes)
— Access desktop pools using the SPICE connection protocol (50 minutes).
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1.1. Track A Requirements
Both the tracks assume that you have an evaluation license and a valid Red Hat Network subscription to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux channels. Contact your sales representative if you do not have both of the above. Before you begin Track A, ensure that you have the following with the recommended values:
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Minimum - Dual core server with 4 GB RAM, 25 GB free disk space and 1 Gbps network interface.
Recommended - Dual Sockets/Quad core server with 16 GB RAM, 50 GB free disk space on multiple disk spindles and 1 Gbps network interface.
The breakdown of the server requirements is:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system: 1 GB RAM and 5 GB local disk space
Manager: 3 GB RAM, 3 GB local disk space and 1 Gbps network controller bandwidth
Local ISO domain: 15 GB disk space
Important — Supported Locales
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager setup script, rhevm-setup, supports the
en_US.UT F-8, en_US.utf8, and en_US.utf-8 locales. Ensure that you install the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager on a system where the locale in use is one of these supported values.
A valid Red Hat Network subscription to the following channels:
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (v.3 x86_64) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3, which provides Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager.
The JBoss Application Platform (v 5) for 6Server x86_64 channel, also referred to as jbappplatform-5-x86_64-server-6-rpm, which provides the supported release of the application platform on which the manager runs.
The RHEL Server Supplementary (v. 6 64-bit x86_64) channel, also referred to as
rhel-x86_64 -server-supplem entary-6, which provides the supported version of the Java
Runtime Environment (JRE).
A client to connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager with:
Microsoft Windows (7, XP, 2003 or 2008) with Internet Explorer 7 and above
Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hosts
Minimum - Dual Core server, 10 GB RAM and 10 GB Storage, 1 Gbps network interface
Recommended - Dual socket server, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB storage, two 1 Gbps network interfaces
The breakdown of the server requirements is:
For each host: AMD-V or Intel VT enabled, AMD64 or Intel 64 extensions, minimum 1 GB RAM, 3
GB free storage and 1 Gbps network interface.
For virtual machines running on each host: 8 GB RAM to run four virtual machines.
A valid Red Hat Network subscription to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor (v.6 x86-64 ) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64 -server-6-rhevh.
Storage and Networking
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At least one of the supported storage types (NFS, iSCSI or FCP).
At least three static IP addresses: One for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server and one for each server running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.
DNS service which can resolve (forward and reverse) all the IP addresses.
An existing DHCP server which can allocate network addresses for the virtual machines.
Display subnet (extra Network Interface Card on both servers) to create a new display network in addition to the default existing management network.
Virtual Machines
Installation images for creating virtual machines, depending on which operating system you wish to use.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 or 6.
Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 2003 or 2008.
Valid licenses or subscription entitlements for each operating system.
At least one valid user account in the IPA directory or Active Directory.
2. Track B: Minimal Setup
Track B enables you to install and configure a minimal Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization setup on a single host using local storage. It consists of three basic labs and two optional advanced labs. In the basic labs, you learn how to create virtual machines and assign them to users.
After you have completed the minimal setup, do the advanced labs, if you wish. In the advanced labs, you can use the multi-level administration system to assign different levels of user permissions, which is ideal for a company with diverse employee roles. You will also learn how to provision virtual desktops for end users.
If you have two physical servers and no shared storage, set up a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment by following the labs in Track B - Minimal Setup. The labs in this track are color coded blue, so to determine if a lab is part of Track B, look for a blue square in the diagram at the start of each lab.
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Figure 3. Workflow for Evaluation Track B
After you complete Track B, you will have the following environment with one virtual machine host, local storage, a network, two portals, end-user clients and a host running the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager.
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Figure 4 . Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Minimal Setup
Track B - Minimal Setup Labs
Lab 9 - Install and Configure Minimal Setup
— Install the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor using minimal hardware (60 minutes).
Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
— Create virtual machines and templates from the administration portal (25 minutes).
— Create and manage virtual machines from the power user portal (35 minutes).
Track B - Advanced Lab (optional)
Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level Administrators
— Manage administrators for each component of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization (10 minutes).
— Access desktop pools using the SPICE connection protocol (50 minutes).
2.1. Track B Requirements
Both the tracks assume that you have an evaluation license and a valid Red Hat Network subscription to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux channels. Contact your sales representative if you do not have both of the above. Before you begin Track B, ensure that you have the following requirements with the recommended values:
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Minimum - Dual core server with 4 GB RAM, with 25 GB free disk space and 1 Gbps network interface.
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Recommended - Dual Sockets/Quad core server with 16 GB RAM, 50 GB free disk space on multiple disk spindles and 1 Gbps network interface.
The breakdown of the server requirements are as below:
For the Manager: 3 GB memory, 3 GB local disk space, 1 Gbps network controller bandwidth
For the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system: 1 GB memory, 5 GB local disk space
For the local ISO domain: 15 GB disk space
Important — Supported Locales
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager setup script, rhevm-setup, supports the
en_US.UT F-8, en_US.utf8, and en_US.utf-8 locales. Ensure that you install the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager on a system where the locale in use is one of these supported values.
A valid Red Hat Network subscription to the following channels:
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (v.3 x86_64) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3, which provides Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager.
The JBoss Application Platform (v 5) for 6Server x86_64 channel, also referred to as jbappplatform-5-x86_64-server-6-rpm, which provides the supported release of the application platform on which the manager runs.
The RHEL Server Supplementary (v. 6 64-bit x86_64) channel, also referred to as
rhel-x86_64 -server-supplem entary-6, which provides the supported version of the Java
Runtime Environment (JRE).
One client for connecting to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
Microsoft Windows (7, XP, 2003 or 2008) with Internet Explorer 7 and above
Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Host
Minimum - Dual Core server, 10 GB RAM and 10 GB Storage, 1 Gbps network interface.
Recommended - Dual socket server, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB storage, two 1 Gbps network interfaces.
The breakdown of the server requirements is:
For each host: AMD-V or Intel VT enabled, AMD64 or Intel 64 extensions, minimum 1 GB RAM, 3
GB free storage and 1 Gbps network interface.
For virtual machines running on the host: 8 GB RAM to run four virtual machines.
A valid Red Hat Network subscription to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor (v.6 x86-64 ) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64 -server-6-rhevh.
Storage and Networking
Two static IP addresses: One for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server and one for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.
One name (DNS) Server which can resolve (forward and reverse) all the IP addresses.
A DHCP server for the virtual machines.
Virtual Machines
Installation images for creating virtual machines, depending on which operating system you wish to use.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 or 6.
Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 2003 or 2008.
Valid licenses or subscription entitlements for each operating system.
At least one valid user account in the IPA directory or Active Directory.
3. Summary
At the end of this chapter you have selected the track you are going to follow, and set up the requirements for either a standard setup or a minimal setup. You can now move on to the appropriate lab. For example, to start Track A, proceed to Lab 1.
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Lab 1 - Install and Configure Basic Setup
Lab 1 - Install and Configure Basic Setup
Lab 1 on Track A sets up the basic infrastructure to support virtualization, and shows you how to install and configure the hosts, storage and networks in readiness for the virtual machines. The goal of this lab is an environment that is ready for you to create and provision virtual machines.
This lab is intended for Track A, and requires three servers and shared storage. To successfully
complete this lab, ensure that you have read Section 1.1, “Track A Requirements”
, where the complete requirements for this lab are listed, and complied with its recommendations.
Lab 1 - Objectives
To achieve the goal of this lab, you will install and set up Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with multiple hosts and shared storage, you will learn to configure networks and add ISOs. This lab should take you about 75 minutes.
Section 1, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager”
shows you how to install the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager on a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (12 minutes*)
Section 2, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor”
shows you how to install and configure
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors for use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
(20 minutes*)
Section 3, “Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager”
shows you how to configure a client machine to connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal. (8 minutes)
Section 4, “Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor”
shows you how to approve the hosts for use from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (10 minutes)
Section 5, “Configure Logical Networks”
shows you how to define networks for the storage devices and add them to the hosts. (5 minutes)
Section 6, “Configure Storage”
shows you how to define NFS, iSCSI or FCP storage and attach the domains to the data center. (10 minutes)
Section 7, “Attach and Populate ISO Domain”
shows you how to attach the predefined ISO domain to the data center and upload ISO images to the repository. (10 minutes)
* The time required to download packages from the Red Hat Network depends on the bandwidth of your connection to RHN, therefore it has not been included in the estimated time.
Lab 1 - Configuration
The following figure and table list the environment parameters and object names which will be used consistently throughout this lab. It is strongly recommended that you use these entities in your evaluation environment to ensure the names are resolvable. You may alter them if necessary, but make sure you have an equivalent name for each component.
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Table 1. Lab component names
Component Name
Domain Services
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager
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Domain Name System -
Storage Network storage
Management Network rhevm
Atlantic Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Hypervisor 1
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Hypervisor 2
Pacific
Administrator User
Name admin
NFS Storage Domain NFS-share iSCSI Storage Domain iSCSI-share
FCP Storage Domain
ISO Storage Domain
FCP-share local-iso-share
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IP (if applicable)
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23.23.2.1
10.23.1.0/24
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10.35.3.0/24
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-
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-
Fully Qualified
Domain Name
demo.redhat.com
rhevm.demo.redhat.com
Lab 1 - Install and Configure Basic Setup
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is the control center of the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environment. It allows you to define hosts, configure data centers, add storage, define networks, create virtual machines, manage user permissions and use templates from one central location.
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager must be installed on a server running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6, with minimum 4 GB RAM, 25 GB free disk space and 1 Gbps network interface (see
Section 1.1, “Track A Requirements”
).
To install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on a server. When prompted for the software packages to install, select the default Basic Server option. See the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation
Guide for more details.
Important
During installation, set the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the server as
rhevm .dem o.redhat.com .
2. If the classpathx-jaf package has been installed, it must be removed because it conflicts with some of the components required to support JBoss in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Run:
# yum remove classpathx-jaf
3. If your server has not been registered with the Red Hat Network, run:
# rhn_register
To complete registration successfully you need to supply your Red Hat Network username and password. Follow the onscreen prompts to complete registration of the system.
After you have registered your server, update all the packages on it. Run:
# yum -y update
Reboot your server for the updates to be applied.
4. Subscribe the server to the required channels using the Red Hat Network web interface.
a. Log on to Red Hat Network ( http://rhn.redhat.com/ ).
b. Click Systems at the top of the page.
c. Select the system to which you are adding channels from the list presented on the screen, by clicking the name of the system.
d. Click Alter Channel Subscriptions in the Subscribed Channels section of the screen.
e. Select the following channels from the list presented on the screen.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (v.3 x86_64 )
RHEL Server Supplem entary (v. 6 64 -bit x86_64 )
JBoss Application Platform (v 5) for 6Server x86_64 (note that this channel is listed under "Additional Services Channels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for
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Click the Change Subscription button to finalize the change.
5. You are now ready to install the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Run the following command:
# yum -y install rhevm
This command will download the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager installation software and resolve all dependencies.
6. When the packages have finished downloading, run the installer:
# rhevm-setup
Important — Supported Locales
rhevm -setup supports the en_US.UT F-8, en_US.utf8, and en_US.utf-8 locales.
You will not be able to run this installer on a system where the locale in use is not one of these supported values.
7. The installer will take you through a series of interactive questions as listed in the following example. If you do not enter a value when prompted, the installer uses the default settings which are stated in [ ] brackets.
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Example 1. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager installation
Welcome to RHEV Manager setup utility
HTTP Port [8080] :
HTTPS Port [8443] :
Host fully qualified domain name, note that this name should be fully resolvable [rhevm.demo.redhat.com] :
Password for Administrator (admin@internal) :
Database password (required for secure authentication with the locally created database) :
Confirm password :
Organization Name for the Certificate: Red Hat
The default storage type you will be using ['NFS'| 'FC'| 'ISCSI'] [NFS] :
ISCSI
Should the installer configure NFS share on this server to be used as an ISO
Domain? ['yes'| 'no'] [no] : yes
Mount point path: /data/iso
Display name for the ISO Domain: local-iso-share
Firewall ports need to be opened.
You can let the installer configure iptables automatically overriding the current configuration. The old configuration will be backed up.
Alternately you can configure the firewall later using an example iptables file found under /usr/share/rhevm/conf/iptables.example
Configure iptables ? ['yes'| 'no']: yes
Important points to note:
The default ports 8080 and 8443 must be available to access the manager on HTTP and
HTTPS respectively.
If you elect to configure an NFS share it will be exported from the machine on which the manager is being installed.
The storage type that you select will be used to create a data center and cluster. You will then be able to attach storage to these from the Administration Portal.
8. You are then presented with a summary of the configurations you have selected. Type yes to accept them.
Example 2. Confirm Manager installation settings
RHEV Manager will be installed using the following configuration:
================================================================= http-port: 8080 https-port: 8443 host-fqdn: rhevm.demo.redhat.com
auth-pass: ******** db-pass: ******** org-name: Red Hat default-dc-type: ISCSI nfs-mp: /data/iso iso-domain-name: local-iso-share override-iptables: yes
Proceed with the configuration listed above? (yes|no): yes
9. The installation commences. It may take a few minutes. When complete, the following message displays, indicating that the installation was successful.
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Example 3. Successful installation
Installing:
Creating JBoss Profile... [ DONE ]
Creating CA... [ DONE ]
Setting Database Security... [ DONE ]
Creating Database... [ DONE ]
Updating the Default Data Center Storage Type... [ DONE ]
Editing JBoss Configuration... [ DONE ]
Editing RHEV Manager Configuration... [ DONE ]
Configuring the Default ISO Domain... [ DONE ]
Starting JBoss Service... [ DONE ]
Configuring Firewall (iptables)... [ DONE ]
**** Installation completed successfully ******
Your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is now up and running. You can log in to the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager's web administration portal with the username admin (the administrative user configured during installation) in the internal domain.
Important
The internal domain is automatically created upon installation, however no new users can be added to this domain. To authenticate new users, you need an external directory service. Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization supports IPA and Active Directory, and provides a utility called rhevm-
manage-domains to attach new directories to the system. You will use this tool in subsequent labs.
2. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
You have now successfully installed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. The next step is to install your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts, which will be used to run your virtual machines. Note that you have to perform this installation once on each physical server used as a host.
While this lab describes the use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts, you can also use
network or PXE boot), see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Hypervisor Deployment Guide.
Before installing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, you need to download the hypervisor image from the Red Hat Network and create a bootable CD with the image. This procedure can be performed on any machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
To prepare a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor installation CD
1. Download the latest version of the rhev-hypervisor* package from Red Hat Network. The list of hypervisor packages is located at the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
(v.6 x86_64 ) channel.
a. Log on to Red Hat Network ( http://rhn.redhat.com/ ).
b. Click Systems at the top of the page.
c. From the list presented on the screen, select the system on which the Red Hat Enterprise
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Virtualization Manager is installed by clicking on its name.
d. Click Alter Channel Subscriptions in the Subscribed Channels section of the screen.
e. Select the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (v.6 x86_64) channel from the list presented on the screen, then click the Change Subscription button to finalize the change.
2. Log in to the system on which the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is installed. You must log in as the root user to install the rhev-hypervisor package. Run the following command:
# yum install "rhev-hypervisor*"
The hypervisor ISO image is installed into the /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/ directory.
3. Insert a blank CD into your CD writer. Use the cdrecord utility to burn the hypervisor ISO image onto your disc. Run:
# cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/rhev-hypervisor.iso
You have created a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor installation CD, now you can use it to boot the machine designated as your hypervisor host. This lab describes the interactive installation where you are prompted to configure your settings in a graphical interface. Use the following keys to navigate around the installation screen:
Menu Navigation Keys
Use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate between selections. Your selections are highlighted in white.
The Tab key allows you to move between fields.
Use the Spacebar to tick checkboxes, which are represented by [ ] brackets. A marked checkbox displays with an asterisk (*).
To proceed with the selected configurations, press the Enter key.
To install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors
1. Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor installation CD into your CD-ROM drive of the machine designated as a host. Reboot the machine. When the boot splash screen displays, press the Tab key and select Boot to boot from the hypervisor installation media. Press Enter.
2. On the installation confirmation screen, select Install RHEV Hypervisor and press Enter.
3. The installer automatically detects the drives attached to the system. The disk selected for booting the hypervisor is highlighted in white. Ensure that the local disk is highlighted, otherwise use the arrow keys to select the correct disk. Select Continue and press Enter.
4. You are prompted to select the drive on which the hypervisor is to be installed. Ensure that the local disk is highlighted, otherwise use the arrow keys to select the correct disk. While multiple installation drives can be used, select only one for this evaluation. Select Continue and press
Enter.
5. Enter a password for local console access and confirm it. Select Install and press Enter. The
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor partitions the local drive, then commences installation.
6. Once installation is complete, a dialog prompts you to Reboot the hypervisor. Press Enter to confirm. Remove the installation disc.
7. After the hypervisor has rebooted, you will be taken to a login shell. Log in as the admin user with
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8. On the hypervisor management console, there are eight tabs on the left. Press the Up and Down keys to navigate between them and Enter to access them.
a. Select the Network tab. Fill in the required fields as shown in the following example.
Substitute the DNS Server address according to your environment.
Figure 5. Configure Hypervisor network settings
After you have filled in the fields, select Apply and press Enter. This saves your network settings.
b. For this document, the eth0 device will be used to set up the management network. Select it and press Enter to access the interface configuration menu. Fill in the required fields as shown in the following example.
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Figure 6. Configure management network interface
Under IPv4 Settings, select DHCP or Static IP addressing and press Spacebar to mark the option as enabled. If using static IP addressing you must also provide the IP
Address, Netm ask, and Gateway. Select Apply and press Enter.
A dialog prompts you to confirm your network settings, select OK and press Enter.
c. Select the RHEV-M tab. Configure the following options:
In the Management Server field, enter rhevm.demo.redhat.com.
In the Management Server Port field, enter 8443.
Tick the Connect to the RHEV Manager and Validate Certificate checkbox.
The Set RHEV-M Admin Password field allows you to specify the root password for the hypervisor, and enable SSH password authentication from the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager. You do not have to fill in this field for this document.
Select Apply and press Enter. A dialog displays, asking you to connect the hypervisor to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and validate its certificate. Select Approve and press Enter. A message will display notifying you that the Manager configuration has been successfully updated.
d. Under the Red Hat Network tab, you can register the host with the Red Hat Network.
This enables the host to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines with proper RHN entitlements. However, for the purposes of this document, the evaluation subscriptions will be used for the guests.
e. Accept all other default settings. For information on security, logging, and kernel dump configuration, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hypervisor Deployment Guide. The guide also covers non-interactive hypervisor installation.
f. Finally, select the Status tab. Select Restart and press Enter to reboot the host and apply all changes.
You have now successfully installed a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor. Repeat the above
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3. Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Now that you have installed the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and Hypervisors, you can log in to the Manager administration portal to start using the Hypervisors and configure your virtualization environment.
Before logging in to the administration portal, you must install .NET Framework 4 and modify the default security settings on the machine used to access the web administration portal. These steps enable your client to connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. The example below is applicable for
Windows Server 2008 R2, but you can also use Windows XP and Windows 7.
To configure Windows client to access the administration portal
1. To install .NET Framework 4, download it from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17718 . Run this executable as a user with administration access to the system.
2. Next, disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. Click Start → Administrative
Tools → Server Manager. On the Security Information pane in the Server Manager window, click Configure IE ESC. Select Off for Administrators and Users to disable the security configuration. Click OK.
3. To add the administration portal to the browser's list of trusted sites, open a browser and click on
Tools → Internet Options. Click on the Security tab.
a. Select Trusted Sites. Click Sites to display the Trusted Sites dialog. Enter the URL for your administration portal in the Add this website to the zone textbox. Click Add, then Close.
b. Click the Custom Level... button. Locate the XAML browser applications item in the list, ensure that it is set to Enable, then click OK.
4. Restart Internet Explorer to access the administration portal.
You can use Internet Explorer 7 and above to connect to the administration portal. The following example is applicable to Internet Explorer 9.
To connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal
1. Open a web browser and navigate to https://demo.redhat.com:8443/RHEVManager.
2. If this is your first time connecting to the administration portal, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager will issue security certificates for your browser. Click the link labeled this
certificate to trust the ca.cer certificate. A bar displays at the bottom of the browser, click
Open to launch the Certificate dialog. Click Install Certificate and select to place the certificate in Trusted Root Certification Authorities store.
3. Back on the browser screen, click the link labeled here and follow the prompts to install the
RHEV-GUI-CertificateInstaller executable. A bar displays at the bottom of the browser again, this time click Run. Note that the actual certificate installation is preceded by an ActiveX installation.
When complete, a new link labeled here appears. Click on it to reload the administration portal.
4. The portal login screen displays. Enter the administrator's User Name and Password that you provided during installation, and ensure that your domain is set to Internal. Click Login.
You have now successfully logged in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization web administration portal.
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You have now successfully logged in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization web administration portal.
Here, you can manage and monitor all your virtual resources through a graphical user interface.
3.1. The Administration Portal Graphical User Interface
The administration portal graphical interface has two modes: Tree mode and flat mode. Tree mode allows you to browse the object hierarchy of a data center, and is the recommended manner of operation. On the other hand, flat mode is used for objects which are not in the data centers hierarchy, for example the Users tab which does not appear in tree mode.
The functions of the administration portal GUI are described in the following figure and list:
Figure 7. Administration Portal Features
1. Header: This bar contains the name of the logged in user, the sign out button, the option to configure user roles.
2. Navigation Pane: This pane allows you to navigate between the Tree, Bookmarks and Tags tabs. In the Tree tab, tree mode allows you to see the entire system tree and provides a visual representation your virtualization environment's architecture.
3. Resources Tabs: These tabs allow you to access the resources of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization. You should already have a Default Data Center, a Default Cluster, a Host waiting to be approved, and available Storage waiting to be attached to the data center.
4. Results List: When you select a tab, this list displays the available resources. You can perform a task on an individual item or multiple items by selecting the item(s) and then clicking the relevant action button. If an action is not possible, the button is disabled.
5. Details Pane: When you select a resource, this pane displays its details in several subtabs.
These subtabs also contain action buttons which you can use to make changes to the selected resource.
Once you are familiar with the layout of the administration portal, you can start configuring your virtual environment. Begin by approving your Hypervisor hosts for use, as detailed in the next section.
4. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
At this point you should already have a Default data center and a Default cluster, which have been
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should have been automatically detected by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, and attached to the
Default cluster of the Default data center.
However, before they can be used, they require a click of approval from the administration portal.
Perform the following procedure for each hypervisor.
To approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under the Default cluster, click the Hosts icon. The Hosts tab displays a list of available hypervisors.
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Figure 8. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor pending approval
2. Select your hypervisor and click the Approve button. The Edit and Approve Host dialog displays. Accept the defaults or make changes as necessary, then click OK.
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Figure 9. Approve Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
3. A dialog appears, indicating that you have not configured Power Management for this host. For the purpose of this lab, click OK to continue. The host goes through a brief installation cycle. When complete, the host status changes from Non Operational to Up.
Note that both the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors that you have approved were attached to the same host cluster, which means that they share the same network infrastructure, the same storage and the same type of CPU, therefore they can migrate virtual machines from one to the other.
You can learn how to create new host clusters in Advanced Lab 7 - Add Additional Data Center.
Now that you have finished configuring your physical servers for use as the Manager, Hypervisors and administration portal client respectively, you are ready to customize and deploy virtual resources including logical networks, storage domains and virtual machines.
5. Configure Logical Networks
Now that you have a data center with hosts grouped in a cluster, you need to define and apply the networking layer. When you installed the system, a management network was already defined. However new networks, for example data, storage or display can be added to enhance network speed and performance. In addition, other networks can be used to segregate virtual machine traffic from the management networks, or isolate traffic between groups of virtual machines in the same cluster. In Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, network definition, type and function are encapsulated in a logical entity called a Logical Network.
A logical network is assigned as a required resource of a cluster in a data center, and by extension all hosts in a cluster must have the same set of logical networks implemented. The implementation itself may vary from host to host (IP and bonding properties). Therefore, to configure a network, you need to first define the network and then apply this network to each host. By default the management network
(rhevm) is defined for a data center.
In this lab, you will create an additional storage network and add it to your hosts. In the following example you will define additional network for the storage, which will be useful when using NAS storage like NFS or iSCSI.
To define logical networks in a cluster
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under System, click Default. On
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2. On the details pane, select the Logical Networks subtab. This displays the existing logical networks. At this stage only the default rhevm network is listed.
3. Click New. The New Logical Network dialog displays.
Figure 10. New Logical Network
Fill in the Name and Description fields, and tick the Assign Networks to Cluster(s) -
Default checkbox to automatically add the Storage network to the Default data center.
4. Click OK to create the new logical network.
Now that you have defined this network as a resource required by the default cluster in the data center, it is time to add this resource to the hosts in the cluster.
To add network to hosts
1. Back on the Tree pane, click Default → Clusters → Default → Hosts. The Hosts tab displays a list of available hosts.
2. For each of your installed hosts, perform the following tasks: a. Click on the host. On the details pane, select the Network Interfaces tab.
b. A list of network interfaces available for this host displays. One of them will already have the management network (rhevm) configured.
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Figure 11. Available network interfaces
c. Select the interface on which to configure the Storage network and click the Edit/ Add
VLAN button. The Edit Network Interface dialog displays.
Figure 12. Edit network interface
Configure the following options:
Under Network, select your newly created storage network.
Select the Static radio button. Enter the IP and Subnet Mask you have prepared as part of the prerequisites to this lab.
Tick the Save network configuration checkbox.
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You have now added a new storage network to your data center, and attached the network to your hosts. On the Logical Networks tab of the Default data center, you should have at least two networks - rhevm and storage. Now, you can add storage to the system.
6. Configure Storage
After configuring your logical networks, you need to add storage to your data center.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization uses a centralized shared storage system for virtual machine disk images and snapshots. Storage can be implemented using Network File System (NFS), Internet Small
Computer System Interface (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP). Storage definition, type and function, are encapsulated in a logical entity called a Storage Domain. Multiple storage domains can be used in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment.
For this lab you will use two types of storage domains. The first is an NFS share for ISO images of installation media. You have already created this ISO domain during the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager installation.
The second storage domain will be used to hold virtual machine disk images. For this domain, you need at least one of the supported storage types. You have already set a default storage type during installation as described in
Example 1, “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager installation”
. Ensure that you use the same type when creating your data domain.
Select your next step by checking the storage type you should use:
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under System, click Default. On the results list, the Default data center displays.
2. On the data center entry, the Storage Type column displays the type you should add.
3. Now that you have verified the storage type, create the storage domain:
For NFS storage, refer to Section 6.1, “Create an NFS Data Domain”
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For iSCSI storage, refer to Section 6.2, “Create an iSCSI Data Domain”
.
For FCP storage, refer to Section 6.3, “Create an FCP Data Domain”
.
6.1. Create an NFS Data Domain
Because you have selected NFS as your default storage type during the Manager installation, you will now create an NFS storage domain. An NFS type storage domain is a mounted NFS share that is attached to a data center and used to provide storage for virtual machine disk images.
Important
If you are using NFS storage, you must first create and export the directories to be used as storage domains from the NFS server. These directories must have their numerical user and group ownership set to 36:36 on the NFS server, to correspond to the vdsm user and kvm group respectively on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server. In addition, these directories must be exported with the read write options (rw). For more information see the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Installation Guide.
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1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under System, select the Default data center and click on Storage. The available storage domains display on the results list. Click
New Dom ain.
2. The New Storage dialog box displays.
Figure 13. Add NFS Storage
Configure the following options: a. Name: Enter NFS-share.
b. Data Center: The Default data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: The Data/ NFS option is already pre-selected because during installation you set NFS as your data center's default storage type. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Data Center will not be available.
d. Use Host: Select any of the hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list.
e. Export Path: Enter the IP address or a resolvable hostname of the chosen host. The export path should be in the format of 192.168.0.10:/Images/NFS-Share or
dom ain.exam ple.com :/Im ages/NFS-Share.
3. Click OK. The new NFS-share data domain displays on the Storage tab. It will remain with a
Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center.
You have created an NFS storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center
and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines. Proceed to Section 7,
“Attach and Populate ISO Domain” .
6.2. Create an iSCSI Data Domain
Because you have selected iSCSI as your default storage type during the Manager installation, you will now create an iSCSI storage domain. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform supports iSCSI storage domains spanning multiple pre-defined Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).
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1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under System, select the Default data center and click on Storage. The available storage domains display on the results list. Click
New Dom ain.
2. The New Domain dialog box displays.
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Configure the following options: a. Name: Enter ISCSI-share.
b. Data Center: The Default data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: The Data/ iSCSI option is already preselected because during installation you set iSCSI as your data center's default storage type. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Data Center will not be available.
d. Use Host: Select any of the available hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list.
3. To connect to the iSCSI target, enter the required information under the Discover Targets bar.
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Figure 15. Discover iSCSI target
a. Address: Enter the address of the iSCSI target.
b. Port: Select the port to connect to. The default is 3260.
c. User Authentication: If required, enter the username and password.
Click the Discover button to find the targets. The iSCSI targets display in the results list with a
Login button for each target.
4. Click Login on the first target to display the list of existing LUNs. Click the + icon under the
Target Name to expand the LUN list. Tick the Add LUN checkbox to use the selected LUN as the iSCSI data domain.
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Figure 16. Attach LUNs to iSCSI domain
5. Click OK. The new iSCSI-share data domain displays on the Storage tab. It will remain with a
Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center.
You have created an iSCSI storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center
and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines. Proceed to Section 7,
“Attach and Populate ISO Domain” .
6.3. Create an FCP Data Domain
Because you have selected FCP as your default storage type during the Manager installation, you will now create an FCP storage domain. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform supports FCP storage domains spanning multiple pre-defined Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).
To add FCP storage
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under System, select the Default data center and click on Storage. The available storage domains display on the results list. Click
New Dom ain.
2. The New Domain dialog box displays.
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Figure 17. Add FCP Storage
Configure the following options: a. Name: Enter FCP-share.
b. Data Center: The Default data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: The Data/ Fibre Channel option is already pre-selected because during installation you set FC as your data center's default storage type. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Data Center will not be available.
d. Use Host: Select any of the hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list. Ensure that the LUN you intend to use is available on the host you select.
e. The list of existing LUNs display. On the selected LUN, tick the Add LUN checkbox to use it as the FCP data domain.
3. Click OK. The new FCP-share data domain displays on the Storage tab. It will remain with a
Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center.
You have created an FCP storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center
and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines. Proceed to Section 7,
“Attach and Populate ISO Domain” .
7. Attach and Populate ISO Domain
You have defined your first storage domain to store virtual guest data, now it is time to configure your second storage domain, which will be used to store installation images for creating virtual machines. You have already created a local ISO domain during the installation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager. To use this ISO domain, attach it to the Default data center.
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1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Click Default. On the results list, the Default data center displays.
2. On the details pane, select the Storage tab and click the Attach ISO button.
3. The Attach ISO Library dialog appears with the available ISO domain. Select the local-
iso-share domain and click OK.
Figure 18. Attach ISO Library
4. The ISO domain appears in the results list of the Storage tab. It displays with the Locked status as the domain is being validated, then transits to Inactive.
5. Select the ISO domain and click the Activate button. The status changes to Locked and then to
Active.
Media images (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM in the form of ISO images) must be available in the ISO repository for the virtual machines to use. To do so, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides a utility that copies the images and sets the appropriate permissions on the file. For this lab, both the file provided to the utility and the ISO share have to be accessible from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server console to upload images to the ISO domain.
To upload ISO images
1. Create or acquire the appropriate ISO images from boot media. Ensure the path to these images is accessible from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server.
2. The next step is to upload these files. First, determine the available ISO domains by running:
# rhevm-iso-uploader list
You will be prompted to provide the admin user password which you are using to connect to the administration portal. The tool lists the name of the ISO domain that you have already attached in the previous lab:
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ISO Storage Domain List: local-iso-share
Now you have all the information required to upload the required files. To copy your installation images to the ISO domain, run:
# rhevm-iso-uploader upload -i local-iso-share [file1] [file2] .... [fileN]
3. After the images have been loaded, check that they are available for use in the Manager administration portal.
a. Navigate to the Tree and click the Expand All button. Click Storage b. On the Storage tab, click local-iso-share to display its details pane.
c. Select the Images subtab. The list of available images should be populated with the files which you have uploaded. In addition, the RHEV-toolsSetup.iso and virtio-win.vfd images should have been automatically uploaded during installation.
Figure 19. Uploaded ISO images
Now that you have successfully prepared the ISO domain for use, you have completed Lab 1 and are ready to start creating virtual machines.
8. Lab 1 - Summary
You have reached your first Track A goal of setting up and configuring the infrastructure required to create and run virtual machines. You have successfully installed the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors, defined logical networks for storage devices, attached storage domains to the data center, and prepared ISO images.
The next lab Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
on Track A teaches you how to create Red Hat Enterprise
Linux virtual machines and templates.
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Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
Lab 2 shows you how to create Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines and use templates. The goal of this lab is to have at least two running virtual machines, and be able to connect to them.
This lab assumes that you have successfully installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization,
and have the necessary Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation images. You should have completed Lab 1
you are on Track B.
Lab 2 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks necessary to create Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines. In addition, you will learn how to create and use virtual machine templates. This lab should take you about
25 minutes.
Section 1, “Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine”
shows you how to create a new Red Hat
Enterprise Linux virtual machine, configure storage and networking, and install the operating system. (10 minutes)
Section 2, “Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Template”
shows you how to use the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux virtual machine as a basis to create a template. (10 minutes)
Section 3, “Clone a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine”
shows you how to clone a virtual machine from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux template. (5 minutes)
1. Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
In your current configuration, you should have at least one host available for running virtual machines, and the required installation images in your ISO domain. This section guides you through the creation of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtual server. You will perform a normal attended installation using a virtual
DVD.
To create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Click the VMs icon in the Default cluster under the Default data center. On the Virtual Machines tab, click New Server.
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Figure 20. Create new Red Hat Enterprise Linux server
Fill in the Name field, set the Memory Size to 1 GB, and set the Operating System to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x. You may alter other settings but this example retains the defaults. Click OK to create the virtual machine.
2. A New Virtual Machine - Guide Me window opens. This allows you to define networks for the virtual machine. Click Configure Network Interfaces.
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Figure 21. New Network Interface configurations
Retain all the default settings and click OK.
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Note
Red Hat VirtIO is the default selection for Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines. This para-virtualizes network traffic to the guest and improves performance.
3. You are returned to the Guide Me window. This time, click Configure Virtual Disks to add storage to the virtual machine.
Figure 22. New Virtual Disk configurations
In the Size (GB) field, enter 15. Retain all other default settings and click OK.
4. Click Configure Later to close the Guide Me window. Your new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtual machine displays in the Virtual Machines tab.
You have now created your first Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine. Before you can use your virtual machine, install an operating system on it.
To install the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
1. Before you can use your virtual machine, you have to install an operating system on it. To do so, right click the virtual machine and select Run Once. Configure the following options:
Attach CD: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Boot Sequence: CD-ROM
Display protocol: SPICE
2. Retain the default settings for the other options and click OK to start the virtual machine.
3. Select the virtual machine and click the Console ( ) icon. As this is your first time connecting to the virtual machine, allow the installation of SPICE ActiveX and the SPICE client.
4. After the SPICE plugins have been installed, select the virtual machine and click Console again.
This displays a window to the virtual machine, where you will be prompted to begin the installation process. For further instructions, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide.
5. After the installation has completed, reboot the virtual machine.
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You can now connect to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtual machine and start using it.
2. Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Template
Now that you have created a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine, you can save its settings into a template. This template will retain the original virtual machine's configurations, including virtual disk and network interface settings, operating systems and applications. You can use this template to rapidly create replicas of the original virtual machine.
Before your virtual machine can be used to create a template, it has to be sealed. This ensures that machine-specific settings are not propagated through the template.
To prepare a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine for use as a template
1. Connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtual machine to be used as a template. Flag the system for reconfiguration by running the following command as root:
# touch /.unconfigured
2. Remove ssh host keys. Run:
# rm -rf /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
3. Remove the MAC address inherited from the original virtual machine. Before doing so, deactivate the eth0 network interface. Run:
# ifdown eth0
Use a text editor to modify the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file.
Remove the HWADDR entry, which is in the format of the following example:
HWADDR=00:AB:CD:12:34:56
Save and close the file, then bring the network interface back up. Run:
# ifup eth0
4. Using a text editor, remove the entry for the eth0 network interface in the
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file, which is in the format of the following example:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:AB:CD:12:34:56", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth0"
5. Shut down the virtual machine. Run:
# poweroff
The virtual machine has now been sealed, and is ready to be used as a template for Linux virtual machines.
To create a template from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine
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1. Back in the administration portal, click the VMs icon on the Virtual Machines tab, select the sealed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtual machine. Ensure that its status is Down.
2. Click Make Template. The New Virtual Machine Template displays.
Figure 23. Make new virtual machine template
Enter a suitable Name and Description for the template. Retain all the other default settings and click OK.
3. On the Tree pane, click Templates. On the Templates tab, the template displays the "Image
Locked" status icon while it is being created. During this time, the action buttons for the template remain disabled. Once created, the action buttons are enabled and the template is ready for use.
Figure 24 . New Red Hat Enterprise Linux template
You have prepared a virtual machine template for use. You can now clone Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines using this template.
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3. Clone a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
In the previous section, you created a Red Hat Enterprise Linux template complete with pre-configured storage, networking and operating system settings. Now, you will use this template to deploy a preinstalled virtual machine.
To clone a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine from a template
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Click the VMs icon in the Default cluster under the Default data center. On the Virtual Machines tab, click New Server.
Figure 25. Clone a Linux server
a. On the General tab, select your newly created Red Hat Enterprise Linux template from the
Based on T em plate list.
b. Enter a suitable Name and Description, and accept the default values inherited from the template in the rest of the fields. You can change them if needed.
c. Click the Resource Allocation tab. On the Provisioning field, click the drop down menu and select the Clone option. Set the clone method under Disk to Preallocated.
2. Retain all other default settings and click OK to create the virtual machine. The virtual machine displays in the Virtual Machines list with a status of "Image Locked" until the virtual disk is created.
The virtual disk and networking settings are inherited from the template, and do not have to be reconfigured.
3. Click the Run icon to turn it on. This time, the Run Once steps are not required as the operating system has already been installed onto the virtual machine hard drive. Click the green
Console button to connect to the virtual machine.
You have now learned how to create Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines from scratch and based on a template. Next, you will learn how to access these virtual machines from a user portal.
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4. Lab 2 - Summary
You have reached your second Track A and second Track B goals respectively to create and prepare virtual machines for use. In this lab, you have successfully created Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines, installed operating systems, defined storage and networks for the virtual machines, and utilized templates to deploy virtual machines.
The next lab on Track A Lab 3 - Live Migration Scenarios
teaches you how to activate virtual machine live migration for occasions when your hardware is experiencing downtime.
The next lab on Track B Lab 4 - Power User Portal
teaches you how to create and manage virtual machines in the Power User Portal.
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Lab 3 - Live Migration Scenarios
Live migration enables you to move a virtual machine to another host while the machine and its applications are still running. You can activate automatic live migration for occasions when you perform hardware maintenance or if your hosts become non-operational, and your virtual machines will be migrated with no interruptions or delay. At the end of this lab you will have configured cluster policies and be able to balance your hosts' workloads.
Machines , and have at least two virtual machines running on your hosts.
Lab 3 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks of optimizing your host clusters so you can activate virtual machine live migration when necessary. This lab should take you about 10 minutes.
Section 1, “Activate Live Migration”
shows you how to live migrate virtual machines from host to host. (2 minutes)
Section 2, “Move Host into Maintenance”
demonstrates virtual machine automatic live migration when a host is placed in maintenance mode. (3 minutes)
Section 3, “Define Cluster Policy”
shows you how to define a cluster power saving policy, then demonstrates virtual machine live migration when a host is loaded beyond its threshold. (5 minutes)
1. Activate Live Migration
Now that you have several virtual machines running on each host, you can configure live migration. This provides a backup for the virtual machines - if they are running mission critical workloads, and cannot be powered off, you need to ensure that they must always have a host available to run on. Live migration allows you to move virtual machines to different hosts should the host they are running on experience scheduled or unscheduled downtime, without causing the virtual machine's operations to be suspended.
In this example, you will see how virtual machines are live migrated from one host to any of the available hosts in the same cluster.
To live migrate virtual machines
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Under Clusters, click the VMs icon. The list of available virtual machines is displayed in the Virtual Machines tab.
2. Select one or more virtual machines and click Migrate. The Migrate Virtual Machines dialog displays.
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Figure 26. Live migrate a virtual machine to another host
You can select a target host, or allow the system to automatically select one of the available hosts in the cluster. In this case, use the default option.
3. Click OK. The virtual machines will live migrate to another host in the cluster.
2. Move Host into Maintenance
In the previous section you watched a user-triggered live migration of virtual machines. Manually activating live migration is useful for occasions when hosts are brought down for maintenance. The virtual machines on the host which is being placed into maintenance can be automatically live migrated to another host in the cluster, provided that power management has been properly configured for the hosts. More information on configuring power management can be found in Advanced Lab 6 - High
Availability Scenarios.
To move a host into maintenance mode
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Under Clusters, click the Hosts icon. The list of available hosts is displayed in the Hosts tab.
2. Select the host and click the Maintenance button. In this example, select the Atlantic host.
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Figure 27. Move a host into maintenance
3. Click OK. This migrates all virtual machines to alternative hosts, and places the Atlantic host into maintenance. The Status field of the host changes to Preparing for Maintenance, followed by
Maintenance. The icon changes to indicate that the host is in maintenance.
4. Now, it is safe to perform an upgrade, or any other schedule maintenance, on the host. After you have completed your maintenance, reactivate the host by selecting it and clicking the Activate button.
3. Define Cluster Policy
Until now, you have worked without a specific cluster policy. The virtual machines were started on a host selected on round robin logic — as long as there are available resources on the host, virtual machines can be migrated onto it. Furthermore, there was no load balancing of running virtual machines. For example, a virtual machine will remain on the host it was run initially unless it is specifically moved, either by user triggered migration (maintenance mode or manual virtual machine migration) or by a system high availability event (this will be explained in the advanced High Availability lab). Cluster policy allows you to better control the scheduling of virtual machines and to perform load balancing.
Two types of policies are available:
Even Distribution: You can set a maximum service level threshold for the hosts in the cluster. If a host is above the threshold, then the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager will live migrate virtual machines off this host to other hosts in the cluster, as long as the other hosts' loads are below this threshold. This affects the scheduling of running new machines in a similar manner.
Power Saving: This is a superset of the even distribution policy. A low threshold is set for consolidating virtual machines. If a server in the cluster drops below the threshold, then the virtual machines on this server are live migrated to other servers in the cluster, as long as the other servers are not above the maximum service level threshold.
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In the following example you will set and test both thresholds.
To configure cluster load and power management policies
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Click the Default cluster icon, the
Clusters tab displays in the results list. Select the Default cluster to display its details pane.
2. On the General subtab, you can see that the policy is set to None. Click Edit Policy. The
Edit Policy dialog displays.
3. Use the slider to set the thresholds. In this example, you will select the Power Saving policy, and set the minimum and maximum levels to 30% and 70% respectively.
Figure 28. Define power saving policy for host cluster
4. You can also set the time (in minutes) that a host should remain under or above the specified thresholds before the policy is applied. This is to prevent a transient load from triggering unnecessary load balancing. Set this according to the desired response time, this example retains the defaults.
5. Click OK to set the policy for the cluster.
Now you can test these new settings. After the maintenance lab you now have a host (Atlantic) that does not have any virtual machines running. Select one of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines and load it, then watch as the hosts in the cluster balance the virtual machines' workloads.
To test cluster policies
1. Select one of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines and click the Console icon.
2. Load it. This example uses multiple threads of the dd command each copying 1G of data. You can use any other methods to load your virtual machine.
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# dd if=/dev/vda of=tmp bs=32 count=30000000 &
# dd if=/dev/vda of=tmp1 bs=32 count=30000000 &
# dd if=/dev/vda of=tmp2 bs=32 count=30000000 &
# dd if=/dev/vda of=tmp3 bs=32 count=30000000 &
# dd if=/dev/vda of=tmp4 bs=32 count=30000000 &
Depending on your host resources, you may need to load more than one virtual machine in order to load the host. Alternatively, change the number of cores assigned to the loaded virtual machine so that it is equal to the number of cores available on the host, then increase the number of concurrent threads.
3. On the administration portal, click Hosts on the Tree pane. On the Hosts tab, you can see the number of virtual machines on each host.
Figure 29. Hosts balancing virtual machine load
Wait until the wait time expires while the threshold is exceeded. You will see the unloaded virtual machines migrate to the vacant host trying to reduce the load.
Figure 30. Virtual machines migrating to vacant host
4. After the load reduces wait again, and make sure all the virtual machines are unloaded. You will see that virtual machines consolidate to a single host (as long as there is enough memory resources to accommodate all the virtual machines).
4. Lab 3 - Summary
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You have reached your third Track A goal to configure cluster policies for virtual machine live migration.
In this lab, you have live migrated virtual machines when a host is brought down for maintenance, and configured a cluster policy to activate virtual machine live migration when the host's workload exceeds its defined threshold.
The next lab on Track A Lab 4 - Power User Portal
teaches you how to create and manage virtual machines in the Power User Portal.
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Lab 4 - Power User Portal
The power user portal is a trimmed down version of the administration portal, tailored for end user self provisioning of virtual machines. It is simultaneously a gateway for logging in to virtual machines, and also a platform to create virtual machines and manage resources specific to those virtual machines. This lab illustrates the functions of the power user portal, which is available to users with PowerUserRole permissions. At the end of this lab you will be able to create and manage virtual machines from the power user portal.
This lab assumes that you have correctly installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization so you can log in to the power user portal. You should have at least two running virtual machines in your
environment. You should have successfully completed Lab 3 - Live Migration Scenarios
if you are on
Track A or Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
if you are on Track B.
To log in to the power user portal, all you need is either a Red Hat Enterprise Linux client running Mozilla
Firefox 3.5 and higher (you can use your Manager server) or a Windows client running Internet Explorer
7 and higher (you can use your administration portal client).
Lab 4 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks necessary to create virtual machines from the power user portal and assign user permissions. This lab should take you about 35 minutes.
shows you how to attach an IPA domain to the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager and create IPA user accounts. (15 minutes)
Section 2, “Assign PowerUserRole Permissions”
shows you how to assign privileges for a user to access the power user portal. (2 minutes)
Section 3, “Log in to the Power User Portal”
shows you how to install required SPICE plugins and log in to the power user portal. (3 minutes)
Section 4, “Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine”
shows you how to create a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux virtual machine based on an existing template. (5 minutes)
Section 5, “Access a Virtual Machine”
shows you how to connect to a virtual machine. (3 minutes)
Section 6, “Create a Virtual Machine Template”
shows you how to create a virtual machine template from the power user portal. (5 minutes)
Section 7, “Verify Permissions”
shows you how to view permissions on virtual machines and templates.
(2 minutes)
1. Add IPA Domain
Previously, you have logged in to the administration portal as the admin user on the internal
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Manager. However, to authenticate new users, you need an external directory service. The term directory service refers to the collection of software, hardware, and processes that store information about an enterprise, subscribers, or both, and make that information available to users. Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization supports IPA and Active Directory.
This lab assumes that you already have an existing IPA directory service. However if you need further assistance to install and configure IPA, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Enterprise Identity
Management Guide. In this lab, you will attach an IPA domain to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager using the rhevm-manage-domains tool, and create users in the IPA directory. Alternatively, if you have an Active Directory setup, you can attach it to the manager and use it for this lab. See
Section 1, “Add Active Directory Domain”
, and then proceed to Section 2, “Assign PowerUserRole
Perform the following procedure on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server.
To add an IPA domain
1. Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server console.
2. Run the following command, and provide the domain administrator password when prompted:
# rhevm-manage-domains -action=add -domain=ipadomain.demo.redhat.com user=admin -interactive
3. Restart the service for the changes to be applied across the system.
# service jbossas restart
Restarting the JBoss service disconnects you from the administration portal. After a few minutes, the restart completes, and the IPA domain is added to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager.
1.1. Add New Users in the IPA Directory
Before you can add users in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, you must first add them in the IPA directory. For this track, you need at least two users. The names used in this guide are
rhevpower and rhevuser. Perform the following procedure on the Manager server.
1. To add users you must first authenticate as the directory server administrator. Use the kinit
admin command to do this, entering the administrator password when prompted.
$ kinit admin
Password for [email protected]:
2. To add a user interactively use the ipa user-add command. The command will prompt you for all values required to create the user.
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$ ipa user-add
First name: RHEV
Last name: User
User login [rhevuser]:
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Added user "rhevuser"
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User login: rhevuser
First name: RHEV
Last name: User
Full name: RHEV User
Display name: RHEV User
Initials: RU
Home directory: /home/rhevuser
GECOS field: rhevuser
Login shell: /bin/sh
Kerberos principal: [email protected]
UID: 1316000004
3. To allow the new user to log in you must set their initial password. Use the ipa passwd command, followed by the username for which you are setting the password, to do this.
$ ipa passwd rhevuser
Password:
Enter Password again to verify:
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Changed password for "[email protected]"
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4. A new user has been added to the directory server and their password has been set. You are now able to add them to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. For this track, repeat steps 2 and 3 for another user called rhevpower and as necessary if you wish to use other users.
Now, you know how to create users for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Next, you will learn how to assign roles and privileges to these users.
2. Assign PowerUserRole Permissions
A Power User can perform some administrative functions in the User Portal, including creating and editing virtual machines, creating templates, and working with snapshots. In addition, a Power User who creates a virtual machine from the User Portal will be automatically assigned to the virtual machine. A
Power User has permissions for the assigned virtual machine only, not for all virtual machines in the enterprise.
In Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, permissions are set on system objects, including data centers, clusters and virtual machines. This permission is user specific, while the scope of permission is
defined by the user role. You will learn more about permissions in Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level
For a user to log in to the power user portal, the user must have power user permissions on any system object. However, in order to allow a user to create both virtual machines and templates, as you are going to do in this lab, the permission has to be assigned for the data center level.
Perform this procedure in the administration portal as the admin user in the internal domain.
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To assign PowerUserRole permissions on a data center
1. On the Tree pane, click Expand All and select the Default data center. On the Data
Center tab, select the Default data center to display the details pane, and click the
Perm issions subtab.
Figure 31. Add permission to user
2. Click Add to add an existing user. The Add Permission to User dialog displays. Under the
Search fields, select ipadomain.demo.redhat.com on the drop-down menu and enter
rhevpower in the textbox. Click Go.
3. Select the checkbox of rhevpower to be assigned the permissions. Select the Assign role
to user drop-down list and select PowerUserRole.
Figure 32. Add PowerUserRole permission
4. Click OK. The name of the user displays in the Permissions tab, with an icon and the assigned role.
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Figure 33. List of user permissions
While you have assigned permissions for the user rhevpower to make administrative changes to the data center, this user does not automatically inherit power user permissions for the existing virtual machines in the data center. To do so, repeat the previous procedure, substituting data center for the existing virtual machines.
To assign PowerUserRole permissions on an existing virtual machine
1. On the Tree pane, select the VMs icon under the Default data center. A list of virtual machine displays in the Virtual Machines tab. Select the first virtual machine you created,
RHEL6T ham es.
2. Click the Permissions subtab on the details pane and click Add. The Add Permission to
User dialog displays. Under the Search fields, select ipadomain.demo.redhat.com on the drop-down menu and enter rhevpower in the textbox. Click Go.
3. Select the checkbox of rhevpower to be assigned the permissions and select PowerUserRole from the list of permissions. Click OK.
You have now enabled rhevpower to create virtual machines in the Default data center from the power user portal.
3. Log in to the Power User Portal
Now that you have created a Power User who has full permissions to an existing virtual machine, log in as rhevpower to the User Portal. You can use either the same client that you are using for the administration portal, or any Red Hat Enterprise Linux client running Mozilla Firefox.
If you are using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux client, install the SPICE plug-in before logging in to the User
Portal. Run:
# yum install spice-xpi
To log in to the User Portal
1. Open your browser and navigate to
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https://rhevm .dem o.redhat.com :84 4 3/UserPortal.
2. The login screen displays. Enter your User Name and Password, and select the
ipadom ain.dem o.redhat.com domain in the drop-down menu. Click Login.
You have now successfully logged into the User Portal. Here, you can access and monitor all the virtual machines that are available to you. The functions are briefly described in the following figure and list:
Figure 34 . The Power User Portal
1. Title bar: This bar displays the name of the User logged in to the portal and the Sign out button.
2. Portal view: The Extended view of the User Portal displays by default for power users. You can also switch to the Basic view, which is the default for users with basic permissions. You will be using the Basic portal in Advanced Lab 8 - Virtual Desktops.
3. Navigation pane: This pane toggles between displaying Virtual Machines, Templates and
Resources. When a tab is selected, the available virtual resources display. This example uses the
Virtual Machines tab.
4. Management bar: The buttons on this bar enable you to create and make changes to virtual machines.
5. Virtual machine name: This list displays the virtual machine's name, operating system logo and status of the virtual machine (running, paused or powered off).
6. Power buttons: These buttons allow you to play, stop, pause or power off a virtual machine.
7. Connect button: The Console button allows you to connect to virtual machines.
8. Details pane: Clicking on a virtual machine displays its statistics in this pane. You can view a virtual machine's details in the General, Events, Applications and Monitor subtabs, and make configuration changes in the Network Interfaces, Virtual Disks, Snapshots and Permissions subtabs.
Once you are familiar with the layout of the power user portal, you can start creating virtual machines, as instructed in the next section.
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4. Create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
As a Power User you can create, edit and remove virtual machines from the user portal. This includes virtual desktops and virtual servers. You can also create and manage virtual disks and network interfaces of the virtual machines assigned to you.
Here, you will create a virtual machine using the template created in Section 2, “Create a Red Hat
requires selecting a name and an operating system, and finalizing the creation with the click of a button.
As the template has been marked public, it is available to rhevpower who has permissions to the data center on which the template resides.
To create a Linux desktop virtual machine
1. Ensure that you are on the Extended User Portal. Click New Server. A New Server Virtual
Machine window displays.
Figure 35. New Server
a. On the General tab, select the EngRHEL6Base template from the Based On Template field.
b. Enter a suitable Name and Description, and accept the default values inherited from the template in the rest of the fields. You can change them if needed.
c. Click the Resource Allocation tab. On the Provisioning field, click the drop down menu and select the Clone option. Set the clone method under Disks to Preallocated.
2. Retain all other default settings and click OK to create the virtual machine.
You have now created your first virtual machine in the power user portal. This virtual machine inherits all the settings from the template, so the storage, networks and operating system have already been set up.
5. Access a Virtual Machine
Now that you have created a virtual machine in the power user portal, you can turn it on and connect to
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To open a virtual machine console
1. Select RHEL6Erie and click the Play button. The virtual machine powers up.
2. When the virtual machine is turned on, the green Play symbol appears next to its name. The virtual machine is now ready for connection.
Figure 36. Virtual machine turned on
3. Click the Console button to connect to the virtual machine.
4. A SPICE console window of the virtual machine displays. You can now use the virtual machine in the same way you would use a physical desktop.
After you have finished using the virtual machine, log out of it and close the SPICE console window. You are returned to the user portal.
6. Create a Virtual Machine Template
You already know how to make templates in the administration portal, now you can learn to create templates in the power user portal. As before, if you create a public template, it can be accessed by all users authorized to access the data center on which the template resides. Alternatively, marking it private will make the template available only to you.
To make a template from a virtual machine
1. On the Virtual Machines tab, select the virtual machine you wish to use as a basis to create a template. Ensure that it is powered down, then click Make Template.
Figure 37. Make Template
2. The New Template dialog displays.
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Figure 38. Create New Template
7. Verify Permissions
Now that you have created a virtual machine and a template in the power user portal, make sure that the changes you made have been applied in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal.
Perform this procedure in the administration portal as the admin user.
Virtual Machine
1. Select the Virtual Machines tab. Verify that the virtual machine you created from the User
Portal, RHEL6Erie, appears in the results list.
2. Click on the RHEL6Erie virtual machine and look at the details pane. Click on the Permissions tab and check if the user named rhevpower has inherited UserVmManager permissions for this virtual machine.
Template
1. Select the Templates tab. Verify that the template you created from the User Portal, appears in the results list.
2. Click on the PrivateRHEL6 template and look at the details pane. Click on the Permissions tab. As the creator of the template, rhevpower should have inherited PowerUserRole permissions. Meanwhile admin, as the administrative user for all components in the system, should have inherited SuperUser permissions for the template. Nobody else can use this
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Enter information in the following fields:
Nam e: Name of the new template.
Description: Description of the new template.
Host Cluster: The host cluster for the virtual machines using this template.
Storage Dom ain: The storage domain for the virtual machines using the template.
Make Public: Ticking this checkbox allows the template to be accessed by all users. For this lab, leave this checkbox unmarked.
3. Click OK. The virtual machine will be locked while the template is being created. Once created, select the Templates tab in the navigation pane. The newly created template displays in the results list.
Lab 4 - Power User Portal template unless they are given permissions by the existing permitted users.
3. In contrast, click on the EngRHEL6Base template, which was marked public. On the
Perm issions tab, Everyone has been assigned UserT em plateBasedVm permissions, meaning that all users in the system can access this template.
8. Lab 4 - Summary
You have now completed Lab 4 - Power User Portal
. In this lab, you have successfully created virtual machines from the power user portal and assigned permissions for users to access virtual machines and templates.
This is the last basic lab for Tracks A and B. However, you can proceed with the Advanced Labs, which demonstrate further features of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, including a flexible system to manage administrative users, power saving policies, and methods of deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in a large organization.
If you are on Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
, go to Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level Administrators
.
This lab introduces you to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's fine grained user management system, where you can assign administrative permissions to users for different virtual components.
If you are on Section 2, “Track B: Minimal Setup”
, go to Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level
Administrators .This lab introduces you to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's fine grained user
management system, where you can assign administrative permissions to users for different virtual components.
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Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level Administrators
This lab introduces you to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's multi-level administration system. Multilevel administration presents a hierarchy of permissions that can be configured to provide finely grained levels of permissions as required by your enterprise. You have already been partially introduced to this
system when you granted permissions to users on virtual machines and data centers in Lab 4 - Power
Permissions enable users to perform actions on objects, where objects are either individual objects or container objects. Any permissions that apply to a container object also apply to all members of that container. For example, when a host administrator role is applied to a user on a specific host, the user will have permissions to perform any of the available host operations, but on the assigned host only.
However, if a host administrator role is applied on a data center to a user, the user will gain permissions to perform host operations on all hosts within the cluster of the data center. If there are additional host clusters in the data center, the user will not be able to make changes to the hosts.
Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and have several user accounts in either the IPA or the AD domain.
Lab 5 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks necessary to assign permissions for users to make configuration changes in the administration portal. This lab should take you about 10 minutes.
Section 1, “Define Storage Administrator”
shows you how to assign StorageAdmin permissions for a virtual machine to a user. (2 minutes)
Section 2, “Define Virtual Machine Administrator”
shows you how to assign PowerUserRole permissions for a virtual machine to a user. (2 minutes)
Section 3, “Verify User Permissions”
shows you how to log in to the User Portal and perform a few functions to verify the relevant user privileges have been assigned. (3 minutes)
Section 4, “Create Custom Roles”
shows you how to create a custom role and define permissions for the role. (3 minutes)
Lab 5 - Requirements
In addition to the requirements stipulated in Section 1.1, “Track A Requirements”
(for Track A) or
Section 2.1, “Track B Requirements”
(for Track B) ensure that you have at least two users in an external directory service.
1. Define Storage Administrator
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A Storage Administrator can manage, create and remove storage domains. This is useful in an enterprise where there are multiple storage domains, each of which require their own system administrators. A Storage Administrator has permissions for the assigned storage domain only, not for all storage domains in the enterprise.
To assign user permissions, log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal as the SuperUser. In this example, SuperUser permissions have been assigned to admin.
To assign a system administrator role to a storage domain
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under Default, click Storage.
The available storage domains displays in the Storage tab.
2. Select the storage domain that you want to assign users to and click the Permissions subtab on the details pane. This example uses the local-iso-share domain.
3. Click Add to add an existing user. The Add Permission to User dialog displays. Enter
rhevuser in the Search textbox, and click Go.
4. Tick the checkbox of rhevuser. Select the Assign role to user drop-down list and select
StorageAdm in.
Figure 39. Add StorageAdmin permission
5. Click OK. The name of the user displays in the Permissions tab, with an icon and the assigned role.
You have now assigned administrative privileges for the local-iso-domain storage domain to the user named rhevuser. Next, you will assign PowerUserRole permissions for the same user.
2. Define Virtual Machine Administrator
As demonstrated in Lab 4 - Power User Portal
a power user can create, manage and delete virtual
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You should still be logged in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal as
adm in. Repeat the same procedure as before to assign permissions.
To assign a system administrator role for a virtual machine
1. On the Tree pane, click Expand All. Under the Default data center and Default host cluster, click the Virtual Machines icon. The available virtual machines display in the
Virtual Machines tab.
2. Select the virtual machine that you want to assign users to, and click the Permissions subtab on the details pane. This example uses the RHEL6Thames virtual machine.
3. Click Add to add an existing user. The Add Permission to User dialog displays. Enter
rhevuser in the Search textbox, and click Go.
4. Tick the checkbox of rhevuser. Select the Assign role to user drop-down list and select
PowerUserRole.
Figure 4 0. Add PowerUserRole permission
5. Click OK. The name of the user displays in the Permissions tab, with an icon and the assigned role.
You have now assigned administrative privileges for the RHEL6Thames virtual machine and also for the
local-iso-dom ain storage to the user named rhevuser. The next step is to test if the permissions have been assigned as expected.
3. Verify User Permissions
To verify that the Storage Administrator role has been correctly assigned, sign out and log in to the Red
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Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal as rhevuser, then perform a few storage configuration options.
To verify StorageAdmin permissions
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under Default, click Storage.
The available storage domains displays in the Storage tab.
2. Select local-iso-domain. On the details pane, select the Data Center tab and click the
Maintenance button. The ISO storage domain is deactivated, and appears as Inactive in the
Storage pane.
3. Select the Data storage domain. On the details pane, select the Data Center tab and click the
Maintenance button. This time you will get an error message stating "User is not authorized to perform this action". This happened because you gave administrative permissions only for the
ISO domain, not the Data domain.
4. Select the ISO domain again and click the Data Center tab on the details pane. Click Activate.
The domain is activated, and displays as Active in the Storage pane.
Next, verify that the PowerUserRole has been correctly assigned. You should still be logged in as
rhevuser.
To verify PowerUserRole permissions
1. On the Tree pane, click Expand All. Under the Default data center and Default host cluster, click the Virtual Machines icon. The available virtual machines display in the
Virtual Machines tab.
2. Select the RHEL6Thames virtual machine and try to stop it if it is running, or play it if it is not running. You should succeed.
3. Select a different virtual machine, and try to do the same. This time you should get the "User is not authorized to perform this action" message. This is because you only assigned power user permissions for RHEL6Thames and not the second virtual machine.
As you have seen in this lab, you can configure different levels of permissions for different users on multiple objects. This multi-level administration system is ideal for organizations with a diverse range of users who have different needs, and allows for enhanced security in that only specifically assigned users will be able to make system-wide changes.
4. Create Custom Roles
In addition to pre-defined roles, you can also create your own custom role with permission levels for various objects to suit your organization's needs. You can create administrator and user roles to permit access and management to different levels of resources in the data center. To perform the following procedure, log in to the administration portal as the admin user.
To create a new role
1. On the header bar, click Configure. The Configure dialog displays. Under the Roles tab, the dialog includes a list of default User and Administrator roles, and any custom roles.
2. Click New. The New Role dialog displays.
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Figure 4 1. Create a new user role
Enter a Name and Description for your new role.
Select either User or Admin as the Account Type.
Click the Expand All button to view more of the permissions for the listed objects in the
Check Boxes to Allow Action list. You can also expand or collapse the options for each object.
For each of the objects, select the actions you wish to permit for the role you are setting up.
3. Click OK to apply the changes you have made. The new role displays on the list of roles.
You have now created a new role, and can assign it to users as required. In addition to creating new roles from scratch, you can also clone default roles and modify the cloned roles as you wish. As a result, you have a wide range of possibilities to create a versatile, fine-grained model of permissions according to your organization's requirements.
5. Lab 5 - Summary
You have now completed Lab 5 - Manage Multi-Level Administrators
. In this lab, you have successfully assigned multiple levels of administrative permissions to users.
If you are on Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
, go to Lab 6 - High Availability Scenarios
. This lab teaches you how to configure power saving and resource management policies.
If you are on Section 2, “Track B: Minimal Setup”
, go to Lab 8 - Virtual Desktops
. This lab shows you how to create and allocate desktop pools, and how to connect to virtual machines from the basic user
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Lab 6 - High Availability Scenarios
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager offers various high availability features which can be applied in a granular manner, from the level of a single virtual machine up to protection against multiple host failure scenarios. In addition, you can protect your virtual machines against various failures by combining virtual machine high availability with out of band power management, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager's failure detection and failure recovery solutions.
This lab enables you to configure virtual machine high availability, and demonstrates its use in several common enterprise scenarios. It is assumed that you have successfully completed the basic labs of
Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
, meaning that you have correctly installed and configured Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, and have several running virtual machines.
In addition, to successfully complete this lab you must have a power management card for each of your hosts. This lab uses the Intelligent Power Management Interface (IPMI) device as an example. If you have a different device see the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administration Guide.
Lab 6 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the best practices of configuring and testing a reliable Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environment where virtual machines running critical workloads are not easily interrupted.
This lab should take you about 30 minutes.
Section 1, “Configure Power Management”
shows you how to enable power management for your hosts.
(3 minutes)
Section 2, “Configure Virtual Machine High Availability”
shows you how to mark a virtual machine as highly available so that it automatically restarts after being unexpectedly terminated. (2 minutes)
Section 3, “High Availability - Host Initiated Reboot”
demonstrates virtual machine high availability when a host is manually fenced and rebooted before the virtual machines running on it are properly shut down.
(3 minutes)
Section 4, “High Availability - Virtual Machine Interruption”
demonstrates how a highly available virtual machine will automatically restart on the same host if it experiences a crash. (6 minutes)
Section 5, “High Availability - Non-Operational Host”
demonstrates virtual machine high availability when a host becomes non-operational due to a storage disconnection. (8 minutes)
Section 6, “High Availability - Non-Responsive Host”
demonstrates virtual machine high availability when a host has lost communication with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (8 minutes)
Lab 6 - Requirements
Before you attempt this lab, you must have a working Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. The
requirements for setting it up are stipulated in Section 1.1, “Track A Requirements”
. To successfully
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An out of band power management device for each host. This lab uses the Intelligent Power
Management Interface (IPMI) device.
Access to the administration portal and access to your hosts (for simulating failure scenarios). You will be instructed on how to enable remote login for your hypervisors later in this lab.
1. Configure Power Management
At this point, you should have two hosts and at least two virtual machines, however this lab uses six virtual machines. You can use as many virtual machines as you want, but for optimal demonstration of high availability features, it is recommended that you add four new virtual machines to your environment.
Highly available virtual machine settings will only be effective if power management is enabled on the hosts. However before configuring power management, recall that you have previously defined a power
saving cluster policy in Lab 3 - Live Migration Scenarios
. Cluster policies and high availability can be used concurrently; however to best demonstrate Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's high availability features for this lab, reset the cluster policy. This ensures that the virtual machines remain where they are staged before each demonstration, so the migration is triggered by high availability rather than the cluster's load balancing policies.
To disable cluster policy
1. On the administration portal, navigate to the Tree pane, click the Expand All button, and click the Default cluster. The Cluster tab displays, select the Default cluster to display its details pane.
2. On the General subtab, you can see that the policy is set to Power Saving. Click Edit Policy.
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Figure 4 2. Edit cluster policy
3. The Edit Policy dialog displays. Select the None button to remove the previously configured policy. Click OK.
Now, you can configure power management on your hosts. Power management enables the system to fence a troublesome host using an additional interface such as an Intelligent Platform Management
Interface (IPMI) device. Perform this procedure for each host.
To set up power management on a host
1. On the Tree pane, click the Hosts icon under the Default cluster. The Hosts tab displays a list of available hosts.
2. Select a host, in this example the Atlantic host is used. Notice that there is an exclamation mark next to the hostname which you were asked to ignore in previous labs. Click the Edit button to display the Edit Host dialog.
3. Select the Power Management tab. Tick the Enable Power Management checkbox and provide the required information in the following fields:
Address: The address of the power management card. This card does not have to be on any of the logical networks defined on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. However, all hosts in the cluster must have a valid route to the card's IP. This ensures that fencing is correctly configured, as fencing is done by any available host in the cluster.
User Name: The user allowed to log in to the power management device.
Password: The password of the user allowed to log in.
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Type: The type of management device. For this lab, select ipmilan.
Options: These additional parameters depend on the specific implementation of each device.
Detailed documentation of the options available is provided in the man page for each fence agent. For this lab, enter power_wait=4,lanplus=yes in the provided textbox.
Click the Test button to test the settings. If the power management options can be verified, the text Test Succeeded, Host Status is: on displays.
Figure 4 3. Edit cluster policy
4. Click OK. You are returned to the list of hosts. Note that the exclamation mark next to the host's name has now disappeared, signifying that power management has been successfully configured.
You have now configured power management for your hosts, meaning that your hosts' power status can be verified and controlled by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Power management checks that a host is properly powered down, then restarts its virtual machines on another host in the same cluster. However, if the host's status cannot be verified, the virtual machines that were originally running on it will not be restarted.
Next, configure high availability for several virtual machines in the system.
2. Configure Virtual Machine High Availability
Now that you have configured power management on your hosts, they are ready to run highly available virtual machines. High availability means that a virtual machine will automatically be restarted if its process is interrupted. This interruption occurs when a virtual machine is terminated by methods other than shutting down within the guest or from the administration portal. When these events occur, the highly available virtual machine will be automatically restarted, either on its original host or another host in the cluster.
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High availability can only be configured for virtual servers, not virtual desktops.
This lab uses six virtual machines, and configures three of them to be highly available. You can use different names, or a different number of virtual machines - just be aware that this lab uses examples which consistently refer to these allocated names. The virtual machines used in this lab are:
Highly Available Virtual Machines: RHEL6Nile, RHEL6RioGrande, RHEL6Thames
Non-Highly Available Virtual Machines: RHEL6Congo, RHEL6Erie, RHEL6Ganges
To configure High Availability for a virtual machine
1. On the Tree pane, click the VMs icon. On the Virtual Machines tab, select the virtual machine you wish to mark as highly available. This example uses RHEL6Thames. Click Edit.
2. The Edit Server Virtual Machine dialog displays. Select the High Availability tab and tick the Highly Available checkbox. Change the Priority for Run/ Migrate
Queue to High. This means that this virtual machine will take precedence in the queue of virtual machines to be migrated.
Figure 4 4 . Set a server to be highly available
3. Click OK to save your settings. Repeat this procedure for other virtual machines you wish to mark as highly available, in this example they are RHEL6Nile and RHEL6RioGrande.
Now, you have three virtual machines which are highly available, and three which are not. Hold down the
Shift key and click the virtual machines to select all of them, then click the Run icon to start them all.
The virtual machines may not be evenly distributed across the hosts, because one of them is the allocated Storage Pool Manager (SPM) which manages access between hosts and storage. The SPM's
CPU resources are utilized more heavily than that of other hosts. Therefore, when virtual machines are started, the host with a lighter workload is selected to run the machines.
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On the Tree pane, click Hosts to display the available hosts and their workloads on the Hosts tab.
Figure 4 5. Virtual machines running on different hosts
You have now successfully configured power management for your hosts, and set several of your virtual machines to be highly available. You can now experiment with virtual machine high availability in four scenarios that may happen in an enterprise data center — host manual reboot (user error), virtual machine crash (unexpected fault), partial failure (non-operational) and host disconnection full failure
(non-responsive).
3. High Availability - Host Initiated Reboot
At this stage you now have six running virtual machines, three of which are highly available. This section simulates an event in which a user error has caused a temporary host failure, after which the host recovers, but the virtual machines which were running on the host are terminated. In this case, the host is manually fenced before being placed into maintenance mode.
To demonstrate virtual machine high availability when host is incorrectly fenced
1. On the Tree pane, select VMs. The available virtual machines display on the Virtual
Machines tab.
Figure 4 6. Virtual machines running on hosts
In this example, there are currently two virtual machines running on the Atlantic host; and another four on Pacific. You can check whether a virtual machine is highly available by
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RHEL6T ham es is set to be highly available, while RHEL6Congo is not.
2. On the Tree pane, select Hosts. The available hosts display on the Hosts tab. Select the
Atlantic host, click the Power Managem ent drop-down menu and select Restart.
Figure 4 7. Restart host
The Restart Host(s) dialog displays, click OK to confirm and proceed. The host's status changes to Reboot, then Non-Responsive.
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Figure 4 8. Non-responsive host
You have now simulated an environment where a host is manually fenced before it was placed into maintenance. Since power management has been configured for this host, it will automatically reboot after a short period.
3. While the host is being restarted, observe what has happened to the virtual machines which were running on it. On the Tree pane, click VMs to display the Virtual Machines tab. Notice that both the virtual machines running on Atlantic were shut down as soon as the host was restarted.
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Figure 4 9. Virtual machines starting on another host
The highly available virtual machine, RHEL6Thames, is automatically restarted. Its status changes from Down to Wait for Launch, and then to Powering Up. It runs on the Pacific host in the interim period while the Atlantic host is still rebooting. In contrast, RHEL6Congo remains turned off, its status displays as Down.
You have just run a demonstration where a host was manually fenced before the virtual machines on it were properly shut down, causing the virtual machines to crash. When virtual machines are not properly stopped, only the highly available ones are restarted on another host in the cluster. In contrast, the nonhighly available machines remain powered down until they are manually restarted.
4. High Availability - Virtual Machine Interruption
In the previous section, you demonstrated virtual machine high availability when a host becomes nonresponsive and then rebooted. This section simulates a virtual machine crash. The expected outcome is for the highly available virtual machines to restart automatically, while the non-highly available ones will remain shut down until they are manually restarted.
In your current environment, the host that you restarted in the previous section (Atlantic) should be running again. The highly available virtual machine (RHEL6Thames) has been restarted on another host
(Pacific), while the non-highly available virtual machine (RHEL6Congo) is still powered down.
For this demonstration, restart RHEL6Congo. The Atlantic host is automatically selected to run this virtual machine as its workload is currently lighter than Pacific's. Next, live migrate two more virtual machines to the Atlantic host so the workload is equally balanced. Select RHEL6RioGrande and
RHEL6T ham es, and click Migrate. On the Migrate Virtual Machine(s) dialog, leave the option as Select Host Automatically and click OK.
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Figure 50. Migrate virtual machines to Atlantic
To recap, you now have three virtual machines running on each host. Click on the Host label to sort the virtual machines according to host in alphabetical order.
Figure 51. Sort virtual machines by host
To demonstrate virtual machine high availability when its process is killed
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1. To simulate a virtual machine crash, you have to terminate the virtual machine's process from within its host. This example uses the Atlantic host, and provides instructions for remote access to both hypervisor and Linux hosts.
If you are using a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host, you must first enable remote login. On the hypervisor management console, navigate to the Security tab and tick the Enable ssh password authentication checkbox. Enter your password in the fields listed, then click Apply.
Figure 52. Enable SSH on hypervisor
Note that SSH login to the hypervisor is not recommended for security reasons, however to best demonstrate the procedures in this lab, enable remote login temporarily. Once you are done with this lab you can disable SSH login to the hypervisor.
To log in to the hypervisor via SSH, open a terminal and run:
# ssh [email protected]
Accept the authentication key and enter the password for the hypervisor. When you are on the management console, press the F2 key and select Drop to Shell. You can now perform commands as the root user.
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Figure 53. Access hypervisor shell
If you are using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux host, by default you can log in remotely to your host. Open a terminal and run:
# ssh [email protected]
Accept the authentication key and enter the password for the host.
2. Once you have established a remote connection to your host, you can use the vdsClient utility which directly accesses the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager daemon that runs within the hosts. Run:
[root@atlantic ~]# vdsClient -s 0 list table
This lists the GUID, process id, name and status of each virtual machine on the host. For example:
6aba36aa-d0a9-4d51-bcf3-73544bc95964 2783 RHEL6Congo Up
6f8bd3cc-3c54-413a-9a28-0bd2f65eeede 3341 RHEL6RioGrande Up
4e1e0e4f-63e1-4a24-b1a6-76d7ae46e8c4 3015 RHEL6Thames Up
3. Send the termination signal to two virtual machines - one which is highly available, and one which is not. This example uses RHEL6RioGrande and RHEL6Congo.
[root@atlantic ~]# kill -9 3341
[root@atlantic ~]# kill -9 2783
You have now simulated an environment where a virtual machine has unexpectedly crashed, and is inaccessible to users.
4. Back on the administration portal on the Virtual Machines tab, you can see that
RHEL6RioGrande's status is Powering Up. As it was marked as highly available, it instantly restarts when it experiences a crash.
In contrast, the status of RHEL6Congo remains at Down because it had not been marked as highly available. It remains turned off until it is manually restarted.
This demonstrates that if the virtual machine process is interrupted — whether due to user error,
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5. High Availability - Non-Operational Host
Now that you have tested high availability in cases of virtual machine failure, you can examine a scenario in which the failure occurs on the host's side.
When a host's status displays as Non-Operational, it means that the host is accessible from the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, however it cannot serve as a member of a cluster. This can be due to a fault — for example if a logical network is down, or if storage is inaccessible to the host. It can also be due to configuration mismatch — for example if the host CPU type is incompatible with the cluster, or if the host is missing a logical network.
A non-operational host will not be able to run new virtual machines; and if there are virtual machines running on the host before it becomes non-operational, they will be migrated to other hosts in the cluster.
This section demonstrates high availability when a host is non-operational because it is disconnected from the system's external storage resource. You can examine the outcomes of two different cases when the host is acting as the Storage Pool Manager (SPM); and when it is not.
Before you begin these demonstrations, ensure that all your virtual machines are running. In addition, check which host has been configured as the SPM by clicking Hosts on the Tree pane. In this example, the Pacific host is the SPM.
To demonstrate virtual machine high availability when storage network is down (Host: SPM)
1. On the Hosts tab, select the Pacific host to display its details pane. Click the Network
Interfaces subtab. You should have at least one rhevm network and one storage network, as
configured in Section 5, “Configure Logical Networks”
. In this example, the storage network is allocated on eth1.
Figure 54 . Host network interfaces
Next, on the Tree pane click ISCSI-share. On the Storage tab, select the ISCSI-share domain and click Edit. On the Edit Domain dialog, click the + symbol to display the iSCSI
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Figure 55. iSCSI target network
2. Now that you have determined the name and physical interface of your storage network, connect to the Pacific host via SSH. Check your available networks by running the following command:
[root@pacific ~]# ifconfig
Once you have determined the name of your storage network, run:
[root@pacific ~]# ifdown storage
[root@pacific ~]# ifdown eth1
You have now shut down the network between the Pacific host and ISCSI-share storage.
On the Hosts tab, the Pacific host changes to Non Operational, then to Reboot.
3. Because the Pacific host was configured as the SPM, it is automatically rebooted. The highly available virtual machines are restarted on the other available host in the cluster - in this case it is
Atlantic - while the non highly available ones are suspended. However, once the Pacific host is up and running again, the virtual machines which were originally running on it are migrated back to it in order to balance the workload between all hosts in the cluster.
You have now demonstrated high availability when the connection is disrupted between the storage and the host which is the SPM. However, storage disconnection can also occur with a host which is not acting as the SPM. In this case, the host moves into non-operational status, and its virtual machines migrate to other hosts in the cluster.
Previously, the Pacific host was running as the SPM. However, the role of SPM can be transferred, because it has to be filled by a running host. After Pacific had been rebooted, the Atlantic host gained the status of SPM. Therefore, in this example the Pacific host is used again, as it can now play the role of the host which is not the SPM. Before running the next procedure, migrate several virtual machines from Atlantic to Pacific.
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To demonstrate virtual machine high availability when storage network is down (Host: non-
SPM)
1. As before, connect to the Pacific host via SSH. Check your available network by running the following command:
[root@pacific ~]# ifconfig
Once you have determined the name of your storage network, run:
[root@pacific ~]# ifdown storage
[root@pacific ~]# ifdown eth1
You have now shut down the network between the Pacific host and the ISCSI-share storage. If new data is being written onto the virtual machine's disk, the virtual machine detects that the storage connection has been lost, and pauses itself to prevent loss of data. When this happens, the Hosts tab shows that the status of the Pacific host has changed to Non
Operational.
2. Click the VMs icon on the Tree pane to examine the virtual machines. All the virtual machines which were originally running on the Pacific host are automatically migrated to the Atlantic host. The highly available machines, which were set as high priority, are migrated before the nonhighly available ones.
When virtual machines are live migrated, they do not experience any downtime. In rare cases, they will be paused, and then continued on the host they have been migrated to.
Figure 56. Virtual machines automatically migrated
The contrast between these two scenarios is that when the host is the SPM, the host will be fenced, causing termination of its virtual machines, therefore only the highly available machines will be restarted.
However when the host is not the SPM, all virtual machines will be migrated in order of their assigned priority, and leave the host in non-operational mode.
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6. High Availability - Non-Responsive Host
A host is deemed non-responsive when the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager cannot communicate with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization agent on the host. This can be either due to a networking issue, or failure on the host side (kernel panic, power failure and such) which stops all communication with the host.
When a host is non-responsive, it will be fenced to ensure that virtual machines are allowed to restart on other hosts in the cluster while avoiding "split brain" — a situation in which communication with the host is lost while the virtual machines are still partially running. This scenario is simulated in the following section, where you will disconnect the host's management network while the storage connection remains functional.
At this stage, the Pacific host is non-operational as its storage connection was cut in the previous section.
Figure 57. Non-operational Pacific host
Restart it for the next demonstration. On the Tree pane, select the Pacific host. Click the Power
Managem ent button and select Restart. Because you have fenced the host, it automatically brings the
storage and eth1 networks up again, and allows the host to run as normal.
When the host's status changes to Up, migrate several machines onto it. This example uses
RHEL6RioGrande, RHEL6T ham es (both highly available machines) and RHEL6Erie. As you have disabled cluster policy at the beginning of this lab, these virtual machines will not auto-migrate as soon as the host is back up. Therefore, they need to be manually migrated to the Pacific host.
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Figure 58. Migrate virtual machines to Pacific host
To demonstrate high availability when host connection is disrupted
1. On the Tree pane, click Hosts. On the Hosts tab, select the Pacific host, and click the
Network Interfaces subtab on the details pane. Check the physical interface name of the
rhevm network — in this example it is the eth0 network.
2. As before, connect to the Pacific host via SSH. Disable the management network by running:
# ifdown rhevm
You have now shut down the network connecting the Pacific host to the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager. The next time that the Manager attempts to transmit signals to the host, it triggers the automatic fencing operation.
3. From the Tree pane, click VMs to display the Virtual Machines tab. The highly available virtual machines, RHEL6RioGrande and RHEL6Thames, have restarted on the Atlantic host.
Conversely, RHEL6Erie did not restart because it was not configured to be highly available.
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Figure 59. Highly Available virtual machines automatically migrated
4. Finally, go to the Tree pane and click Hosts to examine the status of the hosts. After a short period, the Pacific host will be rebooted, assuming that power management was successfully configured on this host.
You have just run a demonstration where a non-responsive host was automatically fenced and rebooted. As you had simulated a non-persistent network failure, the host will recover from the fault following its reboot. In the interim period while it is being restarted, the highly available virtual machines originally running on it are restarted on another available host in the cluster. Conversely, non-highly available virtual machines need to be manually restarted.
7. Lab 6 - Summary
You have now completed Lab 6 - High Availability Scenarios
. In this advanced lab, you have successfully enabled power management for your hosts and configured high availability for your virtual machines, and tested their effects in five typical enterprise use cases.
In conclusion, when a host malfunctions, but can still communicate with the Manager, it will try to migrate high priority virtual machines to other hosts in the cluster. If the host cannot connect to the Manager, it will trigger a fencing operation and reboot. In this case, highly available virtual machines will restart in a different host in the same cluster; while non-highly available virtual machines will remain shut down unless manually restarted even when host has finished reboot and is back up.
The next lab in the Advanced Track for Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
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Lab 7 - Add Additional Data Center
This lab shows you how to customize your standard Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment with an additional data center. This lab uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, however you can substitute them with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts. At the end of this lab you will be able to create virtual machines in your new data center.
have configured shared storage and logical networks.
Lab 7 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks necessary to install and set up Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with multiple hosts and shared storage. In addition, you will learn how to configure networks and add
ISOs in order to create virtual machines. This lab should take you about 35 minutes.
Section 1, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts”
shows you how to install and configure Red Hat
Enterprise Linux hosts for use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (10 minutes)
Section 2, “Create a New Data Center” shows you how to create a new Data Center for the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux hosts. (1 minute)
Section 3, “Create a New Cluster”
shows you how to create a new host cluster for your Red Hat
Enterprise Linux hosts to it. (1 minute)
Section 4, “Attach New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts”
shows you how to manually attach the hosts to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (4 minutes)
Section 5, “Configure Logical Networks”
shows you how to define new networks for the storage devices and add them to the hosts. (5 minutes)
Section 6, “Configure Storage”
shows you how to define NFS, iSCSI or FCP storage and attach the domains to the data center. (8 minutes)
Section 7, “Configure ISO domain”
shows you how to create a new ISO domain or attach the existing ISO domain to your new data center. (6 minutes)
Lab 7 - Requirements
In addition to the requirements stipulated in Section 1.1, “Track A Requirements”
, ensure that you have the following:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts
Minimum - Dual Core server, 10 GB RAM and 10 GB Storage, 1 Gbps network interface
Recommended - Dual socket server, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB storage, two 1 Gbps network interfaces.
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Recommended - Dual socket server, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB storage, two 1 Gbps network interfaces.
The breakdown of the server requirements is:
For each host: AMD-V or Intel VT enabled, AMD64 or Intel 64 extensions, minimum 1 GB RAM, 3
GB free storage and 1 Gbps network interface.
For virtual machines running on each host: minimum 1 GB RAM per virtual machine.
For each host, a valid Red Hat Network subscription to the rhel-x86_64-rhev-mgmt-agent-6 channel.
Storage and Networking
One or more of the supported storage types (NFS, iSCSI and FCP).
One static IP per host which is resolvable by the DNS server.
An NFS mount point for an ISO directory if you choose to configure an ISO share external to the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Server.
Lab 7 - Configuration
The following figure and table list the environment parameters and object names which will be used consistently throughout this lab. It is strongly recommended that you use these entities in your evaluation environment to ensure the names are resolvable. You may alter them if necessary, but make sure you have an equivalent name for each component.
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Table 2. Lab component names
Component Name
Domain Services
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager
Data Center
Cluster
Storage Network
Management Network
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Linux
Host 1
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Linux
Host 2
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Hypervisor 1
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-
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storage rhevm
Danube
Indus
Atlantic
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Hypervisor 2
Administrator User
Name
Pacific admin
NFS Storage Domain NFS-share iSCSI Storage Domain iSCSI-share
FCP Storage Domain
ISO Storage Domain
FCP-share local-iso-share
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-
-
-
-
-
-
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IP (if applicable)
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10.23.1.0/24
10.35.3.0/24
Fully Qualified Domain
Name
demo.redhat.com
rhevm.demo.redhat.com
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FinanceDataCenter
FinanceCluster danube.demo.redhat.com
indus.demo.redhat.com
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atlantic.demo.redhat.com
pacific.demo.redhat.com
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts
In your current environment, you should have Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and at least two hosts configured in the default data center. In this section, you will learn how to configure Red Hat
Enterprise Linux servers as hosts to run virtual machines. You have to perform the installation on each physical server you wish to use as a host.
However, if you do not wish to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, you can still create an additional data
To install a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 host
1. On the machine designated as your Red Hat Enterprise Linux host, install Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.2. Select only the Base package group during installation. For more comprehensive instructions, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide.
2. If your server has not been registered with the Red Hat Network, run the rhn_register command as root to register it. To complete registration successfully you will need to supply
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# rhn_register
3. Subscribe the server to the required channels using the Red Hat Network web interface.
a. Log on to Red Hat Network ( http://rhn.redhat.com/ ).
b. Click Systems at the top of the page.
c. Select the system to which you are adding channels from the list presented on the screen, by clicking the name of the system.
d. Click Alter Channel Subscriptions in the Subscribed Channels section of the screen.
e. Select the Red Hat Enterprise Virt Management Agent (v 6 x86_64) channel from the list presented on the screen, then click the Change Subscription button to finalize the change.
4. Make sure the kernel and all the packages are up to date. This may take some time. Run:
# yum -y update
5. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform uses a number of network ports for management and other virtualization features. Adjust your Red Hat Enterprise Linux host's firewall settings to allow access to the required ports by configuring iptables rules. Modify the
/etc/sysconfig/iptables file so it resembles the following example:
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [10765:598664]
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 16514 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 54321 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 5634:6166 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 49152:49216 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -m physdev ! --physdev-is-bridged -j REJECT --reject-with icmphost-prohibited
COMMIT
6. Ensure that the iptables service is configured to start on boot and has been restarted, or started for the first time if it was not already running. Run the following commands:
# chkconfig iptables on
# service iptables restart
You have now successfully installed your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Linux hosts. The following sections will provide instructions on how to attach the hosts to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager.
2. Create a New Data Center
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In the basic labs, you used the Default data center which was automatically created upon installation.
However, in this lab you will create a new data center. A data center is a logical entity that defines the set of physical and logical resources used in a managed virtual environment. It is a container for clusters of virtual machines, storage and networks.
Note
While this lab provides the example of creating a new data center consisting only of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux hosts, in reality you can actually add both types of hosts (Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to the same cluster.
From this point onwards, you should be logged in to the administration portal as the admin user.
To add a new Data Center
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Click System and select the Data Centers tab.
2. Click the New button. The New Data Center dialog displays.
Figure 60. New Data Center
Fill in the Name and Description fields. Select the data center Type from the drop-down menu, this has to be compatible with your storage type.
3. Click OK. The New Data Center - Guide Me dialog displays. This dialog provides a contextsensitive reference for the components which have not been configured for your data center.
Leave it open for now.
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Figure 61. New Data Center - Guide Me
3. Create a New Cluster
Now that you have created a new data center, you can populate it with a new cluster. A cluster is a set of physical hosts that are treated as a resource pool for a set of virtual machines. A cluster constitutes a domain for virtual machines to migrate from one host to another, therefore all hosts in a cluster must share the same network infrastructure and the same storage. However, the hosts do not need to share the exact same CPU model, as long as the cluster's CPU name is set to the family that is the most common denominator.
To add a new host cluster
1. You should still be on the New Data Center - Guide Me dialog. If you are not, select your newly created data center and click Guide Me. On the dialog, click Configure Cluster.
2. The New Cluster dialog displays. Note that there are three tabs on the left side of this dialog box. Click on each tab to access them in turn.
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Figure 62. New Cluster
Configure the following options:
On the General tab, enter a suitable Name and Description.
On the CPU Name field, select the family that best describes your host CPUs. Note that for the
Default cluster, you did not need to perform this step because it had been automatically set according to the first host you added to the cluster.
On the Memory Optimization tab, tick the checkbox for Optimize for Density and select For Desktop Load.
On the Resilience Policy tab, select Do Not Migrate Virtual Machines.
3. Click OK. The New Data Center - Guide Me dialog displays again. Leave it open for now.
4. Attach New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts
You have created a new data center and a new cluster within it, now you need to populate the cluster
Hosts” . Before they can be used, they have to be manually attached to the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization platform. Perform the following procedure for each host you have installed.
Note that this step is required for Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts only, if you are using Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors for this lab you only have to approve the hosts with a click, as you
did in Section 4, “Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor”
. This time, attach the hosts to your newly created cluster.
To attach Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts
1. You should still be on the New Data Center - Guide Me dialog. If you are not, select your newly created data center and click Guide Me. On the dialog, click Configure Host.
2. The New Host dialog displays.
Figure 63. Attach a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Host
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The Data Center and Host Cluster are already pre-selected.
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Enter the Name and the IP Address or resolvable hostname of the host. Enter the Root
Password used to log in to the host.
If you wish to configure Out of Band (OOB) power management for this host, see Section 1,
“Configure Power Management” .
3. Click OK. On the Tree pane, click Expand All and select the Danube host. It displays on the
Hosts tab with a status of "Installing". The installation may take a few minutes as the required packages are being downloaded. Once installation is complete, the status will update to Reboot and then Awaiting.
4. When the host is ready for use, its status changes to Up.
5. Configure Logical Networks
Now that you have a data center with hosts grouped in a cluster, you need to define and apply the networking layer. By default, the Management network is already defined for the new data center you created. You can define new logical networks, for example data, storage or display networks.
the FinanceCluster in the FinanceDataCenter.
To define logical networks in a cluster
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Click FinanceDataCenter. On the results list, the FinanceDataCenter data center displays. Click on it to display the details pane.
2. On the details pane, select the Logical Networks tab and click New. The New Logical
Network dialog displays.
Figure 64 . New Logical Network
Fill in the Name and Description fields, and tick the Assign Networks to Cluster(s) -
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FinanceCluster checkbox to automatically add the Storage network to the FinanceCluster.
3. Click OK to create the new logical network.
Now that you have defined this network as a resource required by the FinanceCluster in the data center, it is time to add this resource to the hosts in the cluster.
To add network to hosts
1. Back on the Tree pane, click FinanceDataCenter → Clusters → FinanceCluster → Hosts.
The Hosts tab displays a list of available hosts.
2. For each of your installed hosts, perform the following tasks: a. Click on the host. On the details pane, select the Network Interfaces tab.
b. A list of network interfaces available for this host displays. One of them will already have the management network (rhevm) configured.
Figure 65. Available network interfaces
c. Select the interface on which to configure the Storage network and click the Edit/ Add button. The Edit Network Interface dialog displays.
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Figure 66. Edit network interface
Configure the following options:
Under Network, select storage.
Select the Static radio button. Enter the IP and Subnet Mask you have prepared as part of the prerequisites to this lab.
Tick the Save network configuration checkbox.
d. Click OK.
You have now added a new storage network to your data center, and attached the network to your hosts. On the Logical Networks tab of FinanceDataCenter, you should have at least two networks - rhevm and storage. Now, you can add storage to the system.
6. Configure Storage
After configuring your logical networks, you need to add storage to your data center. This storage
Configure Basic Setup . It just needs to match the data center type that you specified in Section 2,
As before, you will attach two types of storage domains to your data center - an ISO domain for installation media images, and a data domain for virtual machine disk images. When you created your new data center, you have already set the default storage type. Ensure that you use the same type when creating your data domain.
Select your next step by checking the storage type you should use:
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Click FinanceDataCenter. On
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Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Click FinanceDataCenter. On the results list, FinanceDataCenter displays.
2. On the data center entry, the Storage Type column displays the type you should add.
3. Now that you have verified the storage type, create the storage domain:
For NFS storage, refer to Section 6.1, “Create an NFS Data Domain”
.
For iSCSI storage, refer to Section 6.2, “Create an iSCSI Data Domain”
.
For FCP storage, refer to Section 6.3, “Create an FCP Data Domain”
.
6.1. Create an NFS Data Domain
Because you have selected NFS as your default storage when you created a data center, you will now create an NFS storage domain.
Important
If you are using NFS storage, you must first create and export the directories to be used as storage domains from the NFS server. These directories must have their numerical user and group ownership set to 36:36 on the NFS server, to correspond to the vdsm user and kvm group respectively on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server. In addition, these directories must be exported with the read write options (rw). For more information see the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Installation Guide.
To add NFS storage:
1. On the side pane, select the Tree tab. On System, click the + icon to display the available data centers.
2. Double click on the FinanceDataCenter data center and click on Storage. The available storage domains display on the results list. Click New Domain.
3. The New Storage dialog box displays.
Figure 67. Add NFS Storage
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b. Data Center: The FinanceDataCenter data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: The Data/ NFS option is already pre-selected because during installation you set NFS as your data center's default storage type. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Data Center will not be available.
d. Use Host: Select any of the hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list.
e. Export Path: Enter the IP address or a resolvable hostname of the chosen host. The export path should be in the format of 192.168.0.10:/Images/NFS-Share or
dom ain.exam ple.com :/Im ages/NFS-Share.
4. Click OK. The new NFS-share data domain displays on the Storage tab. It will remain with a
Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center.
You have created an NFS storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center
and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines. Proceed to Section 7,
6.2. Create an iSCSI Data Domain
Because you have selected iSCSI as your default storage type when you created a data center, you will now create an iSCSI storage domain.
To add iSCSI storage:
1. On the side pane, select the Tree tab. On System, click the + icon to display the available data centers.
2. Double click on the FinanceDataCenter data center and click on Storage. The available storage domains display on the results list. Click New Domain.
3. The New Domain dialog box displays.
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Figure 68. Add iSCSI Storage
Configure the following options: a. Name: Enter ISCSI-share.
b. Data Center: The FinanceDataCenter data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: The Data/ iSCSI option is already preselected because during installation you set iSCSI as your data center's default storage type. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Data Center will not be available.
d. Use Host: Select any of the hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list.
4. To connect to the iSCSI target, enter the required information under the Discover Targets bar.
Figure 69. Discover iSCSI target
Enter the required information: a. Address: Enter the address of the iSCSI target.
b. Port: Select the port to connect to. The default is 3260.
c. User Authentication: If required, enter the username and password.
5. Click the Discover button to find the targets. The iSCSI targets display in the results list with a
Login button for each target.
6. Click Login on the first target to display the list of existing LUNs. Click the + icon under the
Target Name to expand the LUN list. Tick the Add LUN checkbox to use the selected LUN as the iSCSI data domain.
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Figure 70. Attach LUNs to iSCSI domain
7. Click OK. The new ISCSI-share data domain displays on the Storage tab. It will remain with a
Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center.
You have created an iSCSI storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center
and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines. Proceed to Section 7,
6.3. Create an FCP Data Domain
Because you have selected FCP as your default storage type when you created a data center, you will now create an FCP storage domain.
To add FCP storage:
1. On the side pane, select the Tree tab. On System, click the + icon to display the available data centers.
2. Double click on the FinanceDataCenter data center and click on Storage. The available storage domains display on the results list. Click New Domain.
3. The New Domain dialog box displays.
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Figure 71. Add FCP Storage
Configure the following options: a. Name: Enter FCP-share.
b. Data Center: The FinanceDataCenter data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: The Data/ Fibre Channel option is already pre-selected because during installation you set FC as your data center's default storage type. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Data Center will not be available.
d. Use Host: Select any of the hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list. Ensure that the LUN you intend to use is available on the host you select.
e. The list of existing LUNs display. On the selected LUN, tick the Add LUN checkbox to use it as the FCP data domain.
4. Click OK. The new FCP-share data domain displays on the Storage tab. It will remain with a
Locked status while it is being prepared for use. When ready, it is automatically attached to the data center.
You have created an FCP storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center
and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines. Proceed to Section 7,
7. Configure ISO domain
Now that you have configured your data storage domains, the next step is to define an ISO domain for your new data center. If you have an additional NFS mount point, you can choose to create a new ISO domain and attach it to your new data center. Alternatively, you can also use the local ISO domain created during the Manager installation. An ISO domain can be shared across data centers, even if the data center storage types are different.
Option 1: To create a new ISO domain
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1. On the side pane, select the Tree tab and click Expand All. Under the FinanceDataCenter data center, select Storage. On the results list, click New Domain.
2. The New Storage dialog box displays.
Figure 72. New ISO domain
Configure the following options: a. Name: Enter iso-domain.
b. Data Center: The FinanceDataCenter data center is already pre-selected.
c. Domain Function / Storage Type: In the drop down menu, select Data → NFS. The storage domain types which are not compatible with the Default data center are grayed out.
After you select your domain type, the Export Path field appears.
d. Use Host: Select any of the hosts from the drop down menu. Only hosts which belong in this data center will display in this list.
e. Export Path: Enter the IP address or a resolvable hostname of the chosen host. The export path should be in the format of 192.168.0.10:/Images/NFS-Share or
dom ain.exam ple.com :/Im ages/NFS-Share.
3. Click OK. The new iso-domain displays on the Storage tab. It displays with a Locked status as the domain is being validated, then transits to Inactive.
4. Select the ISO domain and click the Activate button. The status changes to Locked and then to
Active.
You have now successfully defined an ISO domain for your new data center, and can now upload ISO
images to it. Refer to To upload ISO images
for instructions. Once you have populated your ISO domain,
you can create virtual machines as instructed in Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
.
Alternatively, if you do not have an NFS mount point for a new ISO domain, use the local-iso-share domain which was created on the Manager server.
Option 2: To attach the existing ISO domain to a new data center
1. On the side pane, select the Tree tab and click Expand All. Click FinanceDataCenter. On the results list, the FinanceDataCenter data center displays. Click on it to display the details
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2. On the details pane, select the Storage tab and click the Attach ISO button. Select the
local-iso-share domain and click OK.
3. The ISO domain appears in the results list of the Storage tab. It displays with the Locked status as the domain is being validated, then transits to Inactive.
4. Select the ISO domain and click the Activate button. The status changes to Locked and then to
Active.
You have now successfully attached the ISO domain from the Manager server to your new data center.
All the installation images which were available in the Default data center can now be used for the
FinanceDataCenter data center. You can create more virtual machines on your new hosts, using the
instructions in Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
. Just remember to substitute the default cluster for
FinanceCluster and the default data center for FinanceDataCenter.
8. Lab 7 - Summary
You have now completed Lab 7 - Add Additional Data Center
. In this lab, you have successfully installed
Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, attached them to an additional data center, and configured additional resources for your new data center.
The next lab in the Advanced Track for Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
Desktops . This lab shows you how to create and allocate desktop pools, and how to connect to
virtual desktops from the basic user portal.
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, you learned how to provision virtual machines in the user portal when you have power user privileges. In this lab however, you will log in to the user portal using the same web address but with a different domain. In particular, this lab pertains to the use of Windows virtual desktops and pools, which require users to be configured in Active Directory.
For desktop users, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization user portal is simply a one-stop platform to access one or more virtual machines. This portal is suitable for desktop end users who have little need to make configuration changes to their virtual machines. At the end of this lab you will have created
Windows virtual machines and pools, and be able to connect to virtual machines from the basic user portal.
Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and be able to create virtual machines.
Lab 8 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks necessary to create and then connect to a Windows virtual machine or desktop pool with UserRole privileges. This lab should take you about 50 minutes.
Section 1, “Add Active Directory Domain”
shows you how to add an Active Directory domain to the Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager in order to use Windows virtual desktop pools. (5 minutes)
Section 2, “Create a Windows Virtual Machine”
shows you how to create a new Windows virtual machine, configure storage and networking, and install the operating system. (15 minutes)
Section 3, “Create a Windows Template”
shows you how to seal the Windows virtual machine with sysprep and use it as a basis to create a template. (10 minutes)
Section 4, “Create a Windows Virtual Machine from a Template”
shows you how to create a thin provisioned virtual machine from the Windows template and apply the sysprep configuration settings. (5 minutes)
Section 5, “Assign Virtual Machine User Permissions”
shows you how to assign UserRole permissions for a virtual machine to a user. (2 minutes)
virtual machine. (3 minutes)
Section 7, “Use Virtual Desktop Pools”
shows you how to create a Windows desktop pool, assign
UserRole permission for the desktop pool and how to connect to a virtual machine in a pool. (10 minutes)
Lab 8 - Requirements
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In addition to the requirements stipulated in Section 1.1, “Track A Requirements”
(for Track A) or
Section 2.1, “Track B Requirements”
(for Track B), to complete this lab you need the following requirements:
Active Directory domain. The name used in this lab is addomain.demo.redhat.com.
An Active Directory user with permissions to query and add machines to the domain. The name used in this lab is desktopsadmin.
A regular Active Directory user. The name used in this lab is desktopuser.
A Windows installation image and a volume license key.
1. Add Active Directory Domain
Previously, you have used the internal domain, and learned how to add an IPA domain to the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager. In addition to IPA, Active Directory is also supported. This lab teaches you how to use Active Directory to authenticate users.
To add an Active Directory domain
1. Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server console.
2. Run the following command, and provide the domain administrator password when prompted:
# rhevm-manage-domains -action=add -domain=addomain.demo.redhat.com user=desktopsadmin -interactive
3. Restart the service for the changes to be applied across the system.
# service jbossas restart
Restarting the JBoss service disconnects you from the administration portal. After a few minutes, the restart completes, and you can log back in to the administration portal.
4. Refresh the administration portal login screen. On the drop-down menu, you now have three domains — the internal domain, the IPA domain, and the new Active Directory domain. Log in to the portal as the admin user with the internal domain.
2. Create a Windows Virtual Machine
You already know how to create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine from scratch. The procedure for creating a Windows virtual machine is similar, except that it requires additional virtio drivers. This example uses Windows 7, but you can also use other Windows operating systems. You will perform a normal attended installation using a virtual DVD.
To create a Windows server
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Click the VMs icon in the Default cluster under the Default data center. On the Virtual Machines tab, click New Desktop.
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Figure 73. Create new Windows desktop
You only need to fill in the Name field and select Windows 7 as your Operating System. You may alter other settings, but this example retains the defaults. Click OK to create the virtual machine.
2. A New Virtual Machine - Guide Me window opens. This allows you to define networks for the virtual machine. Click Configure Network Interfaces.
Figure 74 . New Network Interface configurations
Retain all the default settings and click OK.
3. You are returned to the Guide Me window. This time, click Configure Virtual Disks to add
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You are returned to the Guide Me window. This time, click Configure Virtual Disks to add storage to the virtual machine.
Figure 75. New Virtual Disk configurations
In the Size (GB) field, enter 15. Retain all other default settings and click OK.
4. Close the Guide Me window. Your new Windows 7 virtual machine displays in the Virtual
Machines tab.
You have now created your first Windows desktop virtual machine. Before you can use your virtual machine, install an operating system on it.
To install the Windows guest operating system
1. Right click the virtual machine and select Run Once. Configure the following options:
Attach Floppy: virtio-win
Attach CD: Your Windows installation media
Boot sequence: CD-ROM
Display protocol: SPICE
Retain the default settings for the other options and click OK to start the virtual machine.
2. Select the virtual machine and click the Console ( ) icon. If this is your first time connecting to the virtual machine, allow the installation of SPICE ActiveX and the SPICE client.
3. After the SPICE plugins have been installed, select the virtual machine and click Console again.
This displays a window to the virtual machine, where you will be prompted to begin the installation process.
4. Accept the default settings and enter the required information as necessary. The only change you must make is to manually install the VirtIO drivers from the virtual floppy disk (vfd) image. To do so, select the Custom (advanced) installation option and click Load Driver. Press Ctrl and select:
Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter
Red Hat VirtIO SCSI Controller
5. The installation process commences, and the system will reboot itself several times.
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When the virtual machine has finished installing, it is time to install RHEV-tools which provide some required features including optimizing SPICE display resolution. Press F12 to release the mouse and click on the SPICE symbol on the upper left hand corner of the SPICE window. In the menu, select Change CD → RHEV-toolsSetup to attach the Guest Tools ISO to the virtual machine.
6. On the virtual machine, locate the CD drive (usually D drive) and install the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Application provisioning tool. This tool checks for RHEV-tools updates on every reboot.
7. After the installation of the tool, wait for a few minutes. During this time, you will not see any apparent activity because the tool runs as a service. The guest will automatically reboot to apply changes.
You have completed the installation of your Windows virtual machine. You can now log in and start using it. In the next lab you will convert this machine into a template from which you will be able to provision multiple similar machines.
3. Create a Windows Template
Now that you have created a Windows virtual machine, you can save its settings into a template. This template will retain the original virtual machine's configurations, including virtual disk and network interface settings, operating systems and applications. You can use this template to rapidly create replicas of the original virtual machine. For this lab, name your template FinanWinDesk.
Before your virtual machine can be used to create a template, it has to be sealed with sysprep. This ensures that machine-specific settings are not propagated through the template.
Note that the procedure below is applicable for creating Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 templates. If you wish to seal a Windows XP template, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administration
Guide.
To seal a Windows virtual machine with sysprep
1. In the Windows virtual machine to be used as a template, open a command line terminal and type
regedit.
2. The Registry Editor window displays. On the left pane, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE →
SYSTEM → SETUP.
3. On the main window, right click to add a new string value using New → String Value. Right click on the string value file and select Modify. When the Edit String dialog box displays, fill in the provided text boxes:
Value name: UnattendFile
Value data: a:\sysprep.inf
4. Launch sysprep from C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe
Under System Cleanup Action, select Enter System Out-of-Box-Experience
(OOBE).
Tick the Generalize checkbox if you need to change the computer's system identification number (SID).
Under Shutdown Options, select Shutdown.
Click OK. The virtual machine will now go through the sealing process and shut down automatically.
To create a template from an existing Windows machine
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1. In the administration portal, click the Virtual Machines tab. Select the sealed Windows 7 virtual machine. Ensure that it has a status of Down and click Make Template.
2. The New Virtual Machine Template displays. Enter information into the following fields:
Nam e: Name of the new template.
Name your new template FinanWinDesk.
Description: Description of the new template.
Host Cluster: The Host Cluster for the virtual machines using this template.
Make Public: Check this box to allow all users to access this template.
3. Click OK. In the Templates tab, the template displays the "Image Locked" status icon while it is being created. During this time, the action buttons for the template remain disabled. Once created, the action buttons are enabled and the template is ready for use.
4. Now that you have the template, you can further modify its properties. In this example you will set its time zone and enable it to join the Active Directory. These parameters will be passed to the sysprep answers file while creating a virtual machine using this template.
On the Tree pane navigate to the data center where you have created the template. Double-click the template and click the sysprep tab. Fill in the Active Directory domain that you have added previously, select your time zone, and click OK.
5. You have to activate the Windows operating system for each virtual machine created using this template. To automate the activation process, configure sysprep with the volume license key you have prepared for this track.
Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager's server console and run:
# rhevm-config -s ProductKeyWindow7x64=”enter your key here”
# service jbossas restart
You can now create new Windows machines using this template.
4. Create a Windows Virtual Machine from a Template
In the previous section, you created a Windows template complete with pre-configured storage, networking and operating system settings. Now, you will use this template to deploy a pre-installed virtual machine.
To create a Windows virtual machine from a template
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click Expand All. Click the VMs icon in the Default cluster under the Default data center. On the Virtual Machines tab, click New Desktop.
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Figure 76. Clone a Windows desktop
a. On the General tab, select your newly created Windows template called FinanWinDesk from the Based on Template list.
b. Enter a suitable Name and Description, and accept the default values inherited from the template in the rest of the fields. You can change them if needed.
2. Retain all other default setting and click OK to create the virtual machine. The virtual machine displays in the Virtual Machines list with a status of "Image Locked" until the virtual disk is created.
The virtual disk and networking settings are inherited from the template, and do not have to be reconfigured.
3. Click the Run icon to turn it on. This time, the Run Once steps are not required as the operating system has already been installed onto the virtual machine hard drive. Click the green
Console button to connect to the virtual machine.
4. The Windows virtual machine goes through the unattended setup process to apply the customized settings set by sysprep using the answer file provided. When this process ends, log in to the machine. You can see that the virtual machine has joined the Active Directory domain.
You have now learned how to create Windows virtual machines with and without templates. Next, you will learn how to access these virtual machines from a user portal.
5. Assign Virtual Machine User Permissions
To access virtual machines from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Portal, users must have the relevant permissions. Permissions are added from the Manager administration portal or the Power User
Portal. A basic user has permissions for the assigned virtual machine only, not for all virtual machines in the system.
To assign UserRole permissions on a virtual machine
1. From the administration portal, click the Virtual Machines tab. Select the virtual machine you
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From the administration portal, click the Virtual Machines tab. Select the virtual machine you created, Win7Huron.
2. On the Details pane, navigate to the Permissions tab. Click the Add button.
3. The Add Permission to User dialog displays. Enter desktopuser in the Search textbox, and click Go. Select the check box of the user to be assigned the permissions. Scroll through the
Assign role to user list and select UserRole.
Figure 77. Add UserRole permission
4. Click OK. The user now has permissions to access the virtual desktop.
6. Connect to a Virtual Machine
Now that you have created a user who has basic permissions, log in as desktopuser to the User
Portal. Ensure that you have the addomain.demo.redhat.com domain selected. For instructions
refer to To log in to the User Portal
.
The Basic User Portal displays for users who have basic permissions. Note the difference between this portal and the one you accessed in a previous lab as a Power User. The Basic User Portal is designed for end users with little need for performing system administration changes to the virtual machines.
To connect to a virtual machine
1. Select the virtual machine you wish to connect to and click the Play button.
2. The virtual machine powers up. When it is turned on, it will no longer be grayed out. The text
Machine is Ready displays under the virtual machine logo. Double click the virtual machine to connect to console.
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Figure 78. Add UserRole permission
3. A SPICE console window of the virtual machine displays.
A virtual desktop can be used the same way as a physical computer. Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization supports the use of USB devices and CD-ROMs on virtual machines. For more information on using virtual machines refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Portal
Guide.
4. Once you have finished using the virtual machine, log out according to the instructions specific to the operating system. This returns you to the user portal.
7. Use Virtual Desktop Pools
A virtual desktop pool is a group of identical desktops that can be used on demand by each user who has permissions to use the desktops from the pool. However, a single desktop cannot be used concurrently by multiple users. The user does not always get the same desktop, but is allocated an available desktop of the required type, from the appropriate pool.
7.1. Create a Desktop Pool
Perform this procedure in the administration portal as the admin user.
To create a desktop pool
1. Log in to the administration portal. In the Tree pane, select System and click the Pools tab. Click the New button.
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Figure 79. Create a new desktop pool
Enter FinWinPool in Name and 5 in Number of VMs. In the Based On Template field, select
FinanWinDesk. You may alter other settings, but this example retains the defaults. Click OK to create the desktop pool.
2. On the Virtual Machines tab, you can see that five new virtual desktops have been created.
You have to run them to allow sysprep to set up the virtual desktops and add them to the domain as specified when you created the template. This will take a few minutes, you can either open consoles to all the virtual desktops to monitor the progress of this setup or wait until you see the virtual machine information (like IP addresses) display on the results list, which indicates the setup is complete.
3. Power off all the pool desktops. Select them all and click the Stop button. The virtual desktops will move to a Powering Down state, and after a while change to Down.
7.2. Assign Pool User Permissions
To access virtual machines from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Portal, users must have the relevant permissions. Assigning UserRole permissions for a pool allows a user to access all of the virtual desktops in the pool, but not other virtual machines in the system.
To assign UserRole permissions
1. On the Tree pane, select System and click Pools. Select the pool you created,
FinanWinPool.
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2. On the Details pane, navigate to the Permissions tab. Click the Add button.
Select addomain.demo.redhat.com as the domain to search and enter desktopuser in the
Search textbox, then click Go. Select the checkbox of the desktopuser. Scroll through the
Assign role to user list and select UserRole.
4. Click OK. The user now has permissions to access the desktop pool.
7.3. Allocate Virtual Desktop
Virtual desktops in a pool have the same operating system and installed applications. The pool will allocate identical virtual desktops as needed to each user permitted to access the pool.
Log in to the user portal as desktopuser. Ensure that you have the addomain.demo.redhat.com domain selected.
To allocate a virtual desktop
1. Select the pool you created. Turn it on by clicking on the Play button which in this case allocates a virtual desktop from the pool.
Figure 80. Take virtual desktop from pool
2. The virtual desktop assigned to you powers up. Its name reflects the pool it was taken from.
Figure 81. Take virtual desktop from pool
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3. When the virtual desktop displays the text Machine is Ready, double-click the virtual desktop logo to access its console window.
Figure 82. Connect to virtual desktop
4. A virtual desktop in a pool should be stateless, meaning any changes made to it will be deleted upon shutdown. In the next section, you will test whether this virtual desktop is stateless by seeing changes that you make to it get removed when the virtual desktop is returned to the pool.
First, make a change to the default virtual desktop. For example, create a file on the Desktop called
test.txt or add a new user account.
7.4. Deallocate Virtual Desktop
Now, you will shut down the virtual desktop and return it to the pool. As the virtual desktop you used is part of a shared resource, the changes you have made will not be persistent.
To deallocate a virtual desktop
1. Make a note of the name of the virtual desktop, then shut it down by clicking the button. It is now deallocated and returned to the pool.
2. Now, select the desktop pool and click to allocate a virtual desktop again.
3. You might get a different virtual desktop from the pool or the same one; check its name.
If it is the same desktop, you can check that the desktop has indeed been rebuilt, and thus retains only the settings specified in the template from which it was created. To do so, log in to the virtual desktop and verify that the changes you have made previously are lost, as expected.
8. Lab 8 - Summary
You have now completed Lab 8 - Virtual Desktops
. In this lab, you have successfully created and used
Windows virtual machines and desktop pools.
You have now completed the Advanced Labs of Section 2, “Track B: Minimal Setup”
. If you wish to
attempt the Standard Setup evaluation track, go to Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
. If you wish to unlock the full version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or to contact our sales representatives for more information, please proceed to the last chapter.
You have now completed the Advanced Labs of Section 1, “Track A: Standard Setup”
. If you wish to
attempt the Minimal Setup evaluation track, go to Section 2, “Track B: Minimal Setup”
. If you wish to unlock the full version of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, or to contact our sales representatives for more information, please proceed to the last chapter.
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Lab 9 - Install and Configure Minimal Setup
This lab demonstrates basic installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization using minimal hardware. At the end of this lab the you will be able to create virtual machines up to the limit of a single host system, provision the virtual machines, and experience the management interface.
Note that this lab is designed for users with minimum resources for evaluation. If you have multiple
Lab 9 - Objectives
This lab takes you through the tasks necessary to install and set up Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on a single host and using local storage. In addition, you will learn how to add ISOs in order to create virtual machines. This lab should take you about 60 minutes.
Section 1, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager”
shows you how to install the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager on a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (12 minutes*)
Section 2, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor”
shows you how to install and configure a
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor for use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (13 minutes*)
Section 3, “Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager”
shows you how to configure a client machine to connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal. (8 minutes)
Section 4, “Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor”
shows you how to approve the host for use from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (7 minutes)
Section 5, “Create Local Storage”
shows you how to define NFS, iSCSI or FCP storage and attach the domains to the data center. (10 minutes)
Section 6, “Attach and Populate ISO Domain”
shows you how to attach the predefined ISO domain to the data center and upload ISO images to the repository. (10 minutes)
* The time required to download packages from the Red Hat Network depends on the bandwidth of your connection to RHN, therefore it has not been included in the estimated time.
Lab 9 - Configuration
The following figure and table list the environment parameters and object names which will be used consistently throughout this lab. It is strongly recommended that you use these entities in your evaluation environment to ensure the names are resolvable. You may alter them if necessary, but make sure you have an equivalent name for each component.
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Table 3. Lab component names
Component Name in the Red Hat
Enterprise
Virtualization
Manager Setup
Domain Services
Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager
Domain Name System -
-
Management Network
rhevm
Atlantic Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Hypervisor
Administrator User
Name admin
Local Storage Domain
ISO Storage Domain
Local-images local-iso-share
-
-
-
-
-
IP (if applicable)
-
23.23.2.1
10.35.3.0/24
Fully Qualified Domain
Name
-
-
demo.redhat.com
rhevm.demo.redhat.com
-
atlantic.demo.redhat.com
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is the control center of the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environment. It allows you to define hosts, configure data centers, add storage, define networks, create virtual machines, manage user permissions and use templates from one central location.
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager must be installed on a server running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6, with minimum 4 GB RAM, 25 GB free disk space and 1 Gbps network interface (see
Section 2.1, “Track B Requirements”
).
To install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on a server. When prompted for the software packages to install, select the default Basic Server option. See the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation
Guide for more details.
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Important
During installation, set the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the server as
rhevm .dem o.redhat.com .
2. If the classpathx-jaf package has been installed, it must be removed because it conflicts with some of the components required to support JBoss in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Run:
# yum remove classpathx-jaf
3. If your server has not been registered with the Red Hat Network, run:
# rhn_register
To complete registration successfully you need to supply your Red Hat Network username and password. Follow the onscreen prompts to complete registration of the system.
After you have registered your server, update all the packages on it. Run:
# yum -y update
Reboot your server for the updates to be applied.
4. Subscribe the server to the required channels using the Red Hat Network web interface.
a. Log on to Red Hat Network ( http://rhn.redhat.com/ ).
b. Click Systems at the top of the page.
c. Select the system to which you are adding channels from the list presented on the screen, by clicking the name of the system.
d. Click Alter Channel Subscriptions in the Subscribed Channels section of the screen.
e. Select the following channels from the list presented on the screen.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (v.3 x86_64 )
RHEL Server Supplem entary (v. 6 64 -bit x86_64 )
JBoss Application Platform (v 5) for 6Server x86_64 (note that this channel is listed under "Additional Services Channels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for x86_64")
Click the Change Subscription button to finalize the change.
5. You are now ready to install the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Run the following command:
# yum -y install rhevm
This command will download the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager installation software and resolve all dependencies.
6. When the packages have finished downloading, run the installer:
# rhevm-setup
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Important — Supported Locales
rhevm -setup supports the en_US.UT F-8, en_US.utf8, and en_US.utf-8 locales.
You will not be able to run this installer on a system where the locale in use is not one of these supported values.
7. The installer will take you through a series of interactive questions as listed in the following example. If you do not enter a value when prompted, the installer uses the default settings which are stated in [ ] brackets.
Example 4 . Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager installation
Welcome to RHEV Manager setup utility
HTTP Port [8080] :
HTTPS Port [8443] :
Host fully qualified domain name, note that this name should be fully resolvable [rhevm.demo.redhat.com] :
Password for Administrator (admin@internal) :
Database password (required for secure authentication with the locally created database) :
Confirm password :
Organization Name for the Certificate: Red Hat
The default storage type you will be using ['NFS'| 'FC'| 'ISCSI'] [NFS] :
ISCSI
Should the installer configure NFS share on this server to be used as an ISO
Domain? ['yes'| 'no'] [no] : yes
Mount point path: /data/iso
Display name for the ISO Domain: local-iso-share
Firewall ports need to be opened.
You can let the installer configure iptables automatically overriding the current configuration. The old configuration will be backed up.
Alternately you can configure the firewall later using an example iptables file found under /usr/share/rhevm/conf/iptables.example
Configure iptables ? ['yes'| 'no']: yes
Important points to note:
The default ports 8080 and 8443 must be available to access the manager on HTTP and
HTTPS respectively.
If you elect to configure an NFS share it will be exported from the machine on which the manager is being installed.
The storage type that you select will be used to create a data center and cluster. However, at this stage it does not matter which one you choose, because you will be creating local storage on your host later.
8. You are then presented with a summary of the configurations you have selected. Type yes to accept them.
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Example 5. Confirm Manager installation settings
RHEV Manager will be installed using the following configuration:
================================================================= http-port: 8080 https-port: 8443 host-fqdn: rhevm.demo.redhat.com
auth-pass: ******** db-pass: ******** org-name: Red Hat default-dc-type: ISCSI nfs-mp: /data/iso iso-domain-name: local-iso-share override-iptables: yes
Proceed with the configuration listed above? (yes|no): yes
9. The installation commences. It may take a few minutes. When complete, the following message displays, indicating that the installation was successful.
Example 6. Successful installation
Installing:
Creating JBoss Profile... [ DONE ]
Creating CA... [ DONE ]
Setting Database Security... [ DONE ]
Creating Database... [ DONE ]
Updating the Default Data Center Storage Type... [ DONE ]
Editing JBoss Configuration... [ DONE ]
Editing RHEV Manager Configuration... [ DONE ]
Configuring the Default ISO Domain... [ DONE ]
Starting JBoss Service... [ DONE ]
Configuring Firewall (iptables)... [ DONE ]
**** Installation completed successfully ******
Your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is now up and running. You can log in to the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization Manager's web administration portal with the username admin (the administrative user configured during installation) in the internal domain.
Important
The internal domain is automatically created upon installation, however no new users can be added to this domain. To authenticate new users, you need an external directory service. Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization supports IPA and Active Directory, and provides a utility called rhevm-
manage-domains to attach new directories to the system. You will use this tool in subsequent labs.
2. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
You have now successfully installed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. The next step is to install your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts, which will be used to run your virtual machines. Note that you have to perform this installation once on each physical server used as a host.
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While this lab describes the use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts, you can also use
network or PXE boot), see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Hypervisor Deployment Guide.
Before installing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, you need to download the hypervisor image from the Red Hat Network and create a bootable CD with the image. This procedure can be performed on any machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
To prepare a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor installation CD
1. Download the latest version of the rhev-hypervisor* package from Red Hat Network. The list of hypervisor packages is located at the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
(v.6 x86_64 ) channel.
a. Log on to Red Hat Network ( http://rhn.redhat.com/ ).
b. Click Systems at the top of the page.
c. From the list presented on the screen, select the system on which the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager is installed by clicking on its name.
d. Click Alter Channel Subscriptions in the Subscribed Channels section of the screen.
e. Select the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (v.6 x86_64) channel from the list presented on the screen, then click the Change Subscription button to finalize the change.
2. Log in to the system on which the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is installed. You must log in as the root user to install the rhev-hypervisor package. Run the following command:
# yum install "rhev-hypervisor*"
The hypervisor ISO image is installed into the /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/ directory.
3. Insert a blank CD into your CD writer. Use the cdrecord utility to burn the hypervisor ISO image onto your disc. Run:
# cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw /usr/share/rhev-hypervisor/rhev-hypervisor.iso
You have created a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor installation CD, now you can use it to boot the machine designated as your hypervisor host. This lab describes the interactive installation where you are prompted to configure your settings in a graphical interface. Use the following keys to navigate around the installation screen:
Menu Navigation Keys
Use the Up and Down arrow keys to navigate between selections. Your selections are highlighted in white.
The Tab key allows you to move between fields.
Use the Spacebar to tick checkboxes, which are represented by [ ] brackets. A marked checkbox displays with an asterisk (*).
To proceed with the selected configurations, press the Enter key.
To boot the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor from a CD
1. Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor installation CD into the CD-ROM drive of
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2. On the installation confirmation screen, select Install RHEV Hypervisor and press Enter.
3. The installer automatically detects the drives attached to the system. The selected disk for booting the hypervisor is highlighted in white. Ensure that the local disk is highlighted, otherwise use the arrow keys to select the correct disk. Select Continue and press Enter.
4. You are prompted to select the drive on which the hypervisor is to be installed. Ensure that the local disk is highlighted, otherwise use the arrow keys to select the correct disk. While multiple installation drives can be used, select only one for this evaluation. Select Continue and press
Enter.
5. Enter a password for local console access and confirm it. Select Install and press Enter. The
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor partitions the local drive, then commences installation.
6. Once installation is complete, a dialog prompts you to Reboot the hypervisor. Press Enter to confirm. Remove the installation disc.
7. After the hypervisor has rebooted, you will be taken to a login shell. Log in as the admin user with the password you provided during installation to enter the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor management console.
8. On the hypervisor management console, there are eight tabs on the left. Press the Up and Down keys to navigate between them and Enter to access them.
a. Select the Network tab. Fill in the required fields as shown in the following example.
Substitute the DNS Server address according to your environment.
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Figure 83. Configure Hypervisor network settings
After you have filled in the fields, select Apply and press Enter. This saves your network settings.
b. For this document, the eth0 device will be used to set up the management network. Select it and press Enter to access the interface configuration menu. Fill in the required fields as shown in the following example.
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Figure 84 . Configure management network interface
Under IPv4 Settings, select DHCP or Static IP addressing and press Spacebar to mark the option as enabled. If using static IP addressing you must also provide the IP
Address, Netm ask, and Gateway. Select Apply and press Enter.
A dialog prompts you to confirm your network settings, select OK and press Enter.
c. Select the RHEV-M tab. Configure the following options:
In the Management Server field, enter rhevm.demo.redhat.com.
In the Management Server Port field, enter 8443.
Tick the Connect to the RHEV Manager and Validate Certificate checkbox.
The Set RHEV-M Admin Password field allows you to specify the root password for the hypervisor, and enable SSH password authentication from the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager. You do not have to fill in this field for this document.
Select Apply and press Enter. A dialog displays, asking you to connect the hypervisor to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and validate its certificate. Select Approve and press Enter. A message will display notifying you that the Manager configuration has been successfully updated.
d. Under the Red Hat Network tab, you can register the host with the Red Hat Network.
This enables the host to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines with proper RHN entitlements. However, for the purposes of this document, the evaluation subscriptions will be used for the guests. To confirm your RHN settings, select Apply and press Enter.
e. Accept all other default settings. For information on configuring logging, kdump and remote storage, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hypervisor Deployment Guide.
f. Finally, select the Status tab. Select Restart and press Enter to reboot the host and apply all changes.
You have now successfully installed the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor. The following sections will provide instructions on how to approve the hypervisor for use with the Red Hat Enterprise
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Virtualization Manager.
3. Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Now that you have installed the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and Hypervisors, you can log in to the Manager administration portal to start using the Hypervisors and configure your virtualization environment.
Before logging in to the administration portal, you have to install .NET Framework 4 and modify the default security settings on the machine used to access the web administration portal. These steps enable your client to connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. The example below is applicable for Windows 2008, but you can also use Windows XP and Windows 7.
To configure Windows client to access the administration portal
1. To install .NET Framework 4, download it from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17718 . Run this executable as a user with administration access to the system.
2. Next, disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. Click Start → Administrative
Tools → Server Manager. On the Security Information pane in the Server Manager window, click Configure IE ESC. Select Off for Administrators and Users to disable the security configuration. Click OK.
3. To add the administration portal to the browser's list of trusted sites, open a browser and click on
Tools → Internet Options. Click on the Security tab.
a. Select Trusted Sites. Click Sites to display the Trusted Sites dialog. Enter the URL for your administration portal in the Add this website to the zone textbox. Click Add, then Close.
b. Click the Custom Level... button. Locate the XAML browser applications item in the list, ensure that it is set to Enable, then click OK.
4. Restart Internet Explorer to access the administration portal.
You can use Internet Explorer 7 and above to connect to the administration portal. The following example is applicable to Internet Explorer 9.
To connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal
1. Open a web browser and navigate to https://demo.redhat.com:8443/RHEVManager.
2. If this is your first time connecting to the administration portal, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager will issue security certificates for your browser. Click the link labeled this
certificate to trust the ca.cer certificate. A bar displays at the bottom of the browser, click
Open to launch the Certificate dialog. Click Install Certificate and select to place the certificate in Trusted Root Certification Authorities store.
3. Back on the browser screen, click the link labeled here and follow the prompts to install the
RHEV-GUI-CertificateInstaller executable. A bar displays at the bottom of the browser again, this time click Run. Note that the actual certificate installation is preceded by an ActiveX installation.
When complete, a new link labeled here appears. Click on it to reload the administration portal.
4. The portal login screen displays. Enter the administrator's User Name and Password that you provided during installation, and ensure that your domain is set to Internal. Click Login.
You have now successfully logged in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization web administration portal.
Here, you can manage and monitor all your virtual resources through a graphical user interface.
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Here, you can manage and monitor all your virtual resources through a graphical user interface.
3.1. The Administration Portal Graphical User Interface
The administration portal graphical interface has two modes: Tree mode and flat mode. Tree mode allows you to browse the object hierarchy of a data center, and is the recommended manner of operation. On the other hand, flat mode is used for objects which are not in the data centers hierarchy, for example the Users tab which does not appear in tree mode.
The functions of the administration portal GUI are described in the following figure and list:
Figure 85. Administration Portal Features
1. Header: This bar contains the name of the logged in user, the sign out button, the option to configure user roles.
2. Navigation Pane: This pane allows you to navigate between the Tree, Bookmarks and Tags tabs. In the Tree tab, tree mode allows you to see the entire system tree and provides a visual representation your virtualization environment's architecture.
3. Resources Tabs: These tabs allow you to access the resources of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization. You should already have a Default Data Center, a Default Cluster, a Host waiting to be approved, and available Storage waiting to be attached to the data center.
4. Results List: When you select a tab, this list displays the available resources. You can perform a task on an individual item or multiple items by selecting the item(s) and then clicking the relevant action button. If an action is not possible, the button is disabled.
5. Details Pane: When you select a resource, this pane displays its details in several subtabs.
These subtabs also contain action buttons which you can use to make changes to the selected resource.
Once you are familiar with the layout of the administration portal, you can start configuring your virtual environment. Begin by approving your Hypervisor hosts for use, as detailed in the next section.
4. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
At this point you should already have a Default data center and a Default cluster, which have been automatically created during the Manager installation. In addition, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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Hypervisor you installed in Section 2, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor”
should have been automatically detected by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, and attached to the
Default cluster of the Default data center. However, before it can be used, it requires a click of approval from the administration portal.
To approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under the Default cluster, click the Hosts icon. The Hosts tab displays a list of available hypervisors.
Figure 86. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor pending approval
2. Select your hypervisor and click the Approve button. The Edit and Approve Host dialog displays. Accept the defaults or make changes as necessary, then click OK.
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Figure 87. Approve Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
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3. A dialog appears, indicating that you have not configured Power Management for this host. For the purpose of this lab, click OK to continue. The host goes through a brief installation cycle. When complete, the host status changes from Non Operational to Up.
Now that you have finished configuring your physical servers for use as the Manager, Hypervisor and administration portal client respectively, you are ready to customize and deploy virtual resources including storage domains and virtual machines.
5. Create Local Storage
At this point, you have installed your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and approved it for use with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Now, you have to set up the host to provide local storage for the virtual machine disk images. Note that setting up local storage is suitable for a small environment, such as this evaluation setup. If you were deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
To create a local storage domain
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under the Default cluster, click the Hosts icon. The Hosts tab displays a list of available hypervisors.
2. Place the host into maintenance mode by clicking the Maintenance button. The Status field of the host changes to Preparing for Maintenance, followed by Maintenance. The icon changes to indicate that the host is in maintenance.
3. Click Configure Local Storage. The Configure Local Storage dialog displays.
Figure 88. Configure Local Storage
On the General tab, specify the path to your local storage domain. For this lab, enter
/data/im ages/rhev. Retain all the other default settings, and click OK.
4. Your local storage domain is created, and attached to the automatically created Atlantic-
Local data center and Atlantic-Local cluster.
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Figure 89. Automatically created data center and cluster
You have created a data storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines.
6. Attach and Populate ISO Domain
You have defined your first storage domain to store virtual guest data, now it is time to configure your second storage domain, which will be used to store installation images for creating virtual machines. You have already created an ISO domain during the installation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Manager. To use this ISO domain, attach it to the same data center which contains the local storage domain.
To attach the ISO domain
1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Click the Atlantic-Local data center. On the results list, the Atlantic-Local data center displays.
2. On the details pane, select the Storage tab and click the Attach ISO button.
3. The Attach ISO Library dialog appears with the available ISO domain. Select the local-
iso-share domain and click OK.
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Figure 90. Attach ISO Library
4. The ISO domain appears in the results list of the Storage tab. It displays with the Locked status as the domain is being validated, then transits to Inactive.
5. Select the ISO domain and click the Activate button. The status changes to Locked and then to
Active.
Media images (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM in the form of ISO images) must be available in the ISO repository for the virtual machines to use. To do so, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides a utility that copies the images and sets the appropriate permissions on the file. For this lab, both the file provided to the utility and the ISO share have to be accessible from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server console to upload images to the ISO domain.
To upload ISO images
1. Create or acquire the appropriate ISO images from boot media. Ensure the path to these images is accessible from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server.
2. The next step is to upload these files. First, determine the available ISO domains by running:
# rhevm-iso-uploader list
You will be prompted to provide the admin user password which you are using to connect to the administration portal. The tool lists the name of the ISO domain that you have already attached in the previous lab:
ISO Storage Domain List: local-iso-share
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Now you have all the information required to upload the required files. To copy your installation images to the ISO domain, run:
# rhevm-iso-uploader upload -i local-iso-share [file1] [file2] .... [fileN]
3. After the images have been loaded, check that they are available for use in the Manager administration portal.
a. Navigate to the Tree and click the Expand All button.
b. Under Storage, click on the name of the ISO domain. It displays in the results list. Click on it to display its details pane.
c. On the details pane, select the Images tab. The list of available images should be populated with the files which you have uploaded. In addition, the RHEV-toolsSetup.iso and virtio-win.vfd images should have been automatically uploaded during installation.
Figure 91. Uploaded ISO images
Now that you have successfully prepared the ISO domain for use, you have completed this lab and are ready to start creating virtual machines.
7. Lab 9 - Summary
Congratulations, you have achieved the first goal of Track B! You now have an infrastructure ready to create and run virtual machines. To recap, you have successfully installed the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, attached storage domains to the data center, and prepared ISO images.
The next lab on Track B teaches you how to create Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines and
templates. To proceed, go to Lab 2 - Create Virtual Machines
.
The subsequent labs for this track are also used for Track A: Standard Setup. Therefore, most examples, instructions and screenshots are specific to Track A. When you use the instructions in the following labs, substitute the instances of default data center and default cluster with Atlantic-Local data center and Atlantic-Local cluster respectively.
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Conclusion
The Evaluation license offers a preview of how you can deploy Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization within your enterprise. As demonstrated, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers high performing and versatile features which can be applied across many different types of enterprises with different configurations and requirements.
To fully unlock the value of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, it is recommended that you purchase a subscription for the full version. With this subscription, you receive full access to Red Hat's Customer
Portal, where you can access our Knowledgebase which contains reference architecture whitepapers, troubleshooting tips, security and technical support. You can also connect with other Red Hat users, and contribute suggestions on how we can further improve our offerings.
To access the Red Hat Customer Portal, visit https://access.redhat.com/home
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