⁠4.3. Installing the Self-Hosted Engine

Summary
Install a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment that takes advantage of the self-hosted engine feature, in which the engine is installed on a virtual machine within the environment itself.
You must be subscribed to the appropriate Red Hat Network channels to install the packages.
All steps in this procedure are to be conducted as the root user.

Important

While the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup package is provided by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager channel and can be installed using the standard channels for the Manager, the vdsm package is a dependency of the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup package and is provided by the Red Hat Enterprise Virt Management Agent channel, which must be enabled. This channel is rhel-6-server-rhev-mgmt-agent-rpms in Subscription Manager and rhel-x86_64-rhev-mgmt-agent-6 in RHN Classic.
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Procedure 4.1. Installing the Self-Hosted Engine

  1. Use yum to ensure that the most up-to-date versions of all installed packages are in use. 
    # yum upgrade
  2. Use yum to initiate installation of the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup package and all dependencies. 
    # yum install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup
Result
You have installed the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup package and are ready to configure the self-hosted engine.
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