Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

• Minimum - Dual core server with 4 GB RAM, with 25 GB free disk space and 1 Gbps network interface.
• Recommended - Dual Sockets/Quad core server with 16 GB RAM, 50 GB free disk space on multiple disk spindles and 1 Gbps network interface.
  The breakdown of the server requirements are as below:

  • For the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system: minimum 1 GB RAM and 5 GB local disk space.
  • For the Manager: minimum 3 GB RAM, 3 GB local disk space and 1 Gbps network controller bandwidth.
  • To create an ISO domain on the Manager server, you need minimum 15 GB disk space.
• A valid Red Hat Network subscription to the following channels:
  • The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (v.3.3 x86_64) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3.3, which provides Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
  • The Red Hat JBoss Application Platform (v 6) for 6Server x86_64 channel, also referred to as jbappplatform-6-x86_64-server-6-rpm, which provides the supported release of the application platform on which the manager runs.
  • The RHEL Server Supplementary (v. 6 64-bit x86_64) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6, which provides the supported version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

    Note

    See the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Release Notes for specific channel names current to your system.
• A client for connecting to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

  • Mozilla Firefox 17 or higher on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Internet Explorer 9 or higher on Microsoft Windows

For each Host (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

• Minimum - Dual core server, 2 GB RAM and 10 GB Storage, 1 Gbps network interface.
• Recommended - Dual socket server, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB storage, two 1 Gbps network interfaces.
  The breakdown of the server requirements are as below:
  • For each host: AMD-V or Intel VT enabled, AMD64 or Intel 64 extensions, 3 GB free storage and 1 Gbps network interface.
• Valid Red Hat Network subscriptions for each host. You can use either Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor or Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, or both.
  • For each Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host: The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (v.6 x86-64) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevh.
  • For each Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Linux host: The Red Hat Enterprise Virt Management Agent (v 6 x86_64) channel, also referred to as rhel-x86_64-rhev-mgmt-agent-6.

Storage and Networking

• At least one of the supported storage types (NFS, iSCSI and FCP).

  • For NFS storage, a valid IP address and export path is required.
  • For iSCSI storage, a valid IP address and target information is required.
• Static IP addresses for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager server and for each host server.
• DNS service which can resolve (forward and reverse) all the IP addresses.
• An existing DHCP server which can allocate network addresses for the virtual machines.

Virtual Machines

• Installation images for creating virtual machines, depending on which operating system you wish to use.

  • Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 2003 or 2008.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 or 6.
• Valid licenses or subscription entitlements for each operating system.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization User Portal

• A Red Hat Enterprise Linux client running Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or higher.