⁠Chapter 1. Lab 1 - Basic Setup for Installation and Configuration

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 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.

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*)

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*)

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)

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)

Configure Logical Networks shows you how to define networks for the storage devices and add them to the hosts. (5 minutes)

Configure Storage shows you how to define NFS, iSCSI or FCP storage and attach the domains to the data center. (10 minutes)

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.

The following figure shows 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 that the names are resolvable. You may alter them if necessary, but make sure you have an equivalent name for each component.