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 across a large organization, it is recommended that you use shared storage as described in Section 1.7, “Configure Storage”. However, for this lab, use the following procedure to add storage to your system.
To create a local storage domain
- 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.
- Place the host into maintenance mode by clicking the 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.
- Your local storage domain is created, and attached to the automatically created Atlantic-Local data center and Atlantic-Local 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.