Chapter 13. External Providers
- 13.1. Introduction to External Providers in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- 13.2. Enabling the Authentication of OpenStack Providers
- 13.3. Adding an External Provider
- 13.4. Removing an External Provider
- 13.5. Explanation of Settings and Controls in the Add Provider Window
- 13.6. Explanation of Settings and Controls in the Edit Provider Window
13.1. Introduction to External Providers in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
In addition to resources managed by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager itself, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization can also take advantage of resources managed by external sources. The providers of these resources, known as external providers, can provide resources such as virtualization hosts, virtual machine images, and networks.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization currently supports the following external providers:
- Foreman for Host Provisioning
- Foreman is a tool for managing all aspects of the lifecycle of both physical and virtual hosts. In Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, hosts managed by Foreman can be added to and used by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager as virtualization hosts. After you add a Foreman instance to the Manager, the hosts managed by the Foreman instance can be added by searching for available hosts on that Foreman instance when adding a new host.
- OpenStack Image Service (Glance) for Image Management
- OpenStack Image Service provides a catalog of virtual machine images. In Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, these images can be imported into the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and used as floating disks or attached to virtual machines and converted into templates. After you add an OpenStack Image Service to the Manager, it appears as a storage domain that is not attached to any data center. Virtual machine disks in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment can also be exported to an OpenStack Image Service as virtual machine disk images.
- OpenStack Network Service (Neutron) for Network Provisioning
- OpenStack Network Service provides software-defined networks. In Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, networks provided by an OpenStack Network Service can be imported into the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and used to carry all types of traffic and create complicated network topologies. After you add an OpenStack Network Service to the Manager, you can access the networks provided by that OpenStack Network Service by manually importing them.