8.6.3. Approving a Hypervisor

Summary
It is not possible to run virtual machines on a Hypervisor until the addition of it to the environment has been approved in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

Procedure 8.25. Approving a Hypervisor

  1. Log in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Administration Portal.
  2. From the Hosts tab, click on the host to be approved. The host should currently be listed with the status of Pending Approval.
  3. Click the Approve button. The Edit and Approve Hosts dialog displays. You can use the dialog to set a name for the host, fetch its SSH fingerprint before approving it, and configure power management, where the host has a supported power management card. For information on power management configuration, see the Power Management chapter of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administration Guide.
  4. Click OK. If you have not configured power management you will be prompted to confirm that you wish to proceed without doing so, click OK.
Result
The status in the Hosts tab changes to Installing, after a brief delay the host status changes to Up.