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Chapter 2. RHV for IBM Power
This release supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts on IBM POWER8 little endian hardware, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machines on emulated IBM POWER8 hardware.
Important
Previous releases of RHV for IBM Power required Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts on POWER8 hardware to be installed from an ISO image. These hosts cannot be updated for use with this release. You must reinstall Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts using the repositories outlined below.
The packages provided in the following repositories are required to install and configure aspects of a Red Hat Virtualization environment on POWER8 hardware.
Table 2.1. Required Entitlements and Repositories
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Component
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Subscription Pool
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Repository Name
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Repository Label
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Details
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Red Hat Virtualization Manager
| Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power
| Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power
| rhel-7-server-rhv-4-power-rpms
|
Provides the Red Hat Virtualization Manager for use with IBM POWER8 hosts. The Manager itself must be installed on x86_64 architecture.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 hosts, little endian
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
| RHV Management Agent for IBM Power, little endian
| rhel-7-server-rhv-4-mgmt-agent-for-power-le-rpms |
Provides the QEMU and KVM packages required for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 servers on IBM Power (little endian) hardware as virtualization hosts.
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| | Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM Power, little endian
| rhel-7-for-power-le-rpms
|
Provides additional packages required for using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 servers on IBM Power (little endian) hardware as virtualization hosts.
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|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machines, big endian
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
| RHV Tools for IBM Power
| rhel-7-server-rhv-4-tools-for-power-le-rpms |
Provides the rhevm-guest-agent-common package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machines on emulated IBM Power (big endian) hardware. The guest agents allow you to monitor virtual machine resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 clients.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machines, little endian
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
| RHV Tools for IBM Power, little endian
| rhel-7-server-rhv-4-tools-for-power-le-rpms |
Provides the rhevm-guest-agent-common package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtual machines on emulated IBM Power (little endian) hardware. The guest agents allow you to monitor virtual machine resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 clients.
|
Unsupported Features
The following Red Hat Virtualization features are not supported:
- Hot-plug CPU
- SPICE display
- SmartCard
- Sound device
- Guest SSO
- Integration with OpenStack Networking (Neutron), OpenStack Image (Glance), and OpenStack Volume (Cinder)
- Self-hosted engine
- Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH)
- Disk Block Alignment
For a full list of bugs that affect the RHV for IBM Power release, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359843.
