Chapter 2. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

2.1. Installation Overview

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform consists of at least one Manager and one or more hosts.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides a graphical user interface to manage the physical and logical resources of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure. The Manager is installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 server, and accessed from a client running Firefox.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor runs virtual machines. A physical server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux can also be configured as a host for virtual machines on the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform.