Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3
Evaluating Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
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Abstract
This book explains how to deploy a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Environment for evaluation purposes.
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Lab 1 - Basic Setup for Installation and Configuration
- 1.1. Lab 1 - Objectives
- 1.2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
- 1.3. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
- 1.4. Connecting to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Web Administration Portal
- 1.5. Graphical User Interface Elements
- 1.6. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
- 1.7. Configure Logical Networks
- 1.8. Configuring Storage
- 1.9. Configuring Storage
- 1.10. Attach and Populate ISO Domains
- 1.11. Lab 1 - summary
- 2. Lab 2 - Creating virtual machines
- 2.1. Lab 2 - Objectives
- 2.2. Creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine
- 2.3. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux templates
- 2.4. Creating a Template from a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine
- 2.5. Sealing a Linux Virtual Machine Manually for Deployment as a Template
- 2.6. Sealing a Linux Virtual Machine for Deployment as a Template using sys-unconfig
- 2.7. Cloning a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine from a template
- 2.8. Lab 2 - Summary
- 3. Lab 3 - Live migration scenarios
- 4. Lab 4 - Power User Portal
- 4.1. Lab 4 - Objectives
- 4.2. Adding IdM domains
- 4.3. Adding new users in the IdM directory
- 4.4. PowerUserRole permission assignment
- 4.5. Assigning PowerUserRole permissions on existing virtual machines
- 4.6. Logging in to the Power User Portal
- 4.7. Logging in to the User Portal
- 4.8. Creating Linux desktop virtual machines
- 4.9. Opening virtual machine consoles
- 4.10. Making templates from virtual machines
- 4.11. Verifying virtual machine template permissions
- 4.12. Lab 4 - Summary
- 5. Lab 5 - Managing Multi-Level Administrators
- 6. Lab 6 - High Availability scenarios
- 6.1. Lab 6 - Objectives
- 6.2. Lab 6 - Requirements
- 6.3. Lab 6 - Prerequisites
- 6.4. Power Management Configuration
- 6.5. Virtual Machine High-Availability Configuration
- 6.6. High Availability: Host-Initated Reboot
- 6.7. High Availability: Virtual Machine Interruption
- 6.8. High-Availability: Non-Operational Host
- 6.9. High Availability: Non-responsive host
- 6.10. Lab 6 - Summary
- 7. Lab 7 - Adding Additional Data Centers
- 7.1. Lab 7 - Objectives
- 7.2. Add Additional Data Center
- 7.3. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 hosts
- 7.4. Create a New Data Center
- 7.5. Create a New Cluster
- 7.6. Attach New Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hosts
- 7.7. Configure Logical Networks
- 7.8. Configuring Storage
- 7.9. Configure ISO Domain
- 7.10. Lab 7 - Summary
- 8. Lab 8 - Virtual desktops
- 9. Lab 9 - Installing and configuring minimal setup
- 9.1. Lab 9 - Objectives
- 9.2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
- 9.3. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
- 9.4. Connecting to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Web Administration Portal
- 9.5. Graphical User Interface Elements
- 9.6. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
- 9.7. Creating Local Storage
- 9.8. Creating local storage domains
- 9.9. Attach and Populate ISO Domains
- 9.10. Lab 9 - Summary
- 10. Lab 10 - Advanced storage features
- 10.1. Lab 10 - Objectives
- 10.2. Advanced Storage Features
- 10.3. Requirements
- 10.4. Creating Floating Disks
- 10.5. Associating a Floating Disk with a Virtual Machine
- 10.6. Marking a Virtual Disk Shared
- 10.7. Associating a Shared Virtual Disk with a Second Virtual Machine
- 10.8. Creating a Snapshot of a Running Virtual Machine
- 10.9. Creating a Virtual Machine from a Snapshot
- 10.10. Associating LUNs with Virtual Machines
- 10.11. Associating Fibre Channel (FC) LUNs with Virtual Machine
- 10.12. Lab 10 - Summary
- A. Revision History