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After you add OpenStack Networking to the Manager, you can access the networks provided by OpenStack Networking by manually importing them.

In Red Hat Virtualization, you can create disks on OpenStack Volume storage that can be used as floating disks or attached to virtual machines.

After you add a VMware provider to the Manager, you can import the virtual machines it provides. V2V conversion is performed on a designated proxy host as part of the import operation.

After you add a KVM host to the Manager, you can import the virtual machines it provides. A storage domain is a collection of images that have a common storage interface. A storage domain contains complete images of templates and virtual machines including snapshots , or ISO files. By default, GlusterFS domains and local storage domains support 4K block size. Block devices are aggregated into a logical entity called a volume group, and then divided by LVM Logical Volume Manager into logical volumes for use as virtual hard disks.

Virtual disks can have one of two formats, either QCOW2 or raw. The type of storage can be sparse or preallocated. Snapshots are always sparse but can be taken for disks of either format.

However, as you would expect, this limits performance and availability for the virtual machines being hosted. Optionally, but recommended, the traffic types may be logically separated using VLANs, if desired. A more robust deployment would have multiple, redundant, isolated connections for management, storage, migration, and virtual machine network traffic all spread across more than one network switch.

The planning guide outlines some considerations here and here , but you can also work with Red Hat to help identify the optimal way of configuring the network if desired. Storage: Shared storage is a requirement when you want to be able to live migrate your virtual machines between Red Hat Virtualization hypervisors in your clusters.

Importantly, all of the hosts in the same logical data center must be able to access all of the storage domains. Be sure to use storage which is capable of delivering the capacity GB , IOPS, and latency needed for your virtual workloads.

The storage considerations in the planning guide can be found here. The first thing we need to do is deploy the operating system for our hypervisor hosts. The full steps for RHV-H can be found in the documentation here , but an overview of the process is:. Attach the bootable media to the physical host, power it on, and boot to the RHV-H installation disk. Follow the installation prompts, providing hostname, management network configuration, and local storage configuration. Once the install starts, be sure to set a secure root password!

We recommend you choose the minimal deployment option, but you can choose whichever best suits your needs. Finally, if you have a complex network environment, it may be easier to manually configure networking before moving on. This is particularly true when doing additional configuration remotely may lead to the management network becoming disconnected, or if you need additional network configuration for storage connectivity on the host where RHV-M will be deployed in the next step.

The documentation highlights some common practices and makes some recommendations for configuration. Now that we have the hypervisor hosts ready, we can move on to deploying RHV-M. If there is a firewall between the network where RHV-M will be deployed and the hypervisor management interfaces, be sure that the correct ports have been opened as well.

With those two checks out of the way, we can deploy RHV-M. For reference, the full documentation can be found here. If, at any time you encounter issues, be sure to check the troubleshooting section of the documentation. After logging in, browse to Virtualization then select Hosted Engine.

Register your system with the Content Delivery Network, entering your Customer Portal user name and password when prompted:. Enable and start the cockpit. You should see cockpit listed. If it is not, enter the following with root permissions to add cockpit as a service to your firewall:. The --permanent option keeps the cockpit service active after rebooting.

If your network environment is complex, you may need to configure a host network manually before adding the host to the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. Configure a VLAN on a bond as in the following example although nmcli is used, you can use any tool :. When creating a management bridge that uses a static IPv6 address, disable network manager control in its interface configuration ifcfg file before adding a host.

Adding a host to your Red Hat Virtualization environment can take some time, as the following steps are completed by the platform: virtualization checks, installation of packages, and creation of a bridge. Select an authentication method to use for the Manager to access the host.

Optionally, click the Advanced Parameters button to change the following advanced host settings:. The new host displays in the list of hosts with a status of Installing , and you can view the progress of the installation in the Events section of the Notification Drawer. After a brief delay the host status changes to Up. Chapter 4. Installing Hosts for Red Hat Virtualization. Table 4. Host Compatibility When you create a new data center, you can set the compatibility version. Installing Red Hat Virtualization Hosts.

Click Downloads in the menu bar. Click Red Hat Virtualization. Scroll up and click Download Latest to access the product download page. Create a bootable media device. Navigate to Subscriptions , click Register System , and enter your Customer Portal user name and password. The Red Hat Virtualization Host subscription is automatically attached to the system.