Client RHEL-V Hypervisor
Hello Team
I am new in RHEL-V Hypervisor and I have experience in VMWare and Hyper-V and it is my first experience for this product.
I have the following questions:
1- There is an administration client for standalone node type VSphere Client or Hyper-V Manager
2.- You need to have RHEL license and install RHVM as to manage a standalone node need these requirements or ask a customer there before.
3.- In which way are presented LUN, I searched information and is not very clear as for example a volume file to create virtual machines
Thanks for your help.
Regards
Sebastian Antunez
Responses
I guess I will start with a question: Are you looking into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (aka RHEV) and the RHEV Manager? The part that made me ask is you mentioned RHEL-V, as in KVM. Hopefully I provide some helpful info.
* Using stand-alone or non-RHEV (KVM/Qemu)
It is possible to run virtualization using only RHEL and KVM/QEMU as a stand-alone implementation. The management tool in this case is virt-manager. You can also use virsh. If you use RHEL and KVM, you can create Virtual Machines that use files as a virtual disk, or you can use a volume. I believe you can either get a 4-host or unlimited guest subscription.
* Using RHEV (Manager and Hypervisor)
I am not sure if there is a way to manage each Hypervisor with a stand-alone client. When using RHEV, you can utilize either the RHEV Hypervisor (like ESXi) or a "full" RHEL installation with the RHEV stack.
RHEV-M (RHEV Manager) is similar to the Virtual Center Server. It can run on bare-metal or a VM and you can cluster it using Red Hat Cluster. An advantage of RHEVM is that it does not require client software, it is managed via the web-based portal. The client console is either VNC or spice client. There is also a user portal which you can provide non-admin users the ability to manage their own environment (create new VM's, access the VM). It can integrate with AD very simply as well.
Managing storage may be a bit of a different approach than the other solutions. The VMs are created with volumes, but they are not available as a mounted filesystem (i.e. there is no comparable /vmfs/volumes/<hostname>/).
The quick-start guide is an easy read to get an idea of how things might compare :
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.2/html/Quick_Start_Guide/index.html
The RHEV trial is quite simple to get rolling. http://www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3/tryrhev.html
I believe you can also view some of the sessions from this year's summit http://www.redhat.com/summit/2013/gallery/
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.
