1.2. Configuration Overview

To allow virtual machines to inherit subscriptions from their hypervisors, complete the following steps:

Prerequisites

  • Import a Subscription Manifest that includes a host-based subscription into Satellite Server. For more information, see Importing a Subscription Manifest into Satellite Server in the Content Management Guide.
  • Ensure you have sufficient entitlements for the host-based subscription to cover all of the hypervisors you plan to use.
  • If you are using Microsoft Hyper-V, enable remote management on the hypervisors.

  • Create a user with read-only access and a non-expiring password on each hypervisor or virtualization manager. Virt-who uses this account to retrieve the list of virtual machines to report to Satellite Server.

    • For Red Hat products and Microsoft Hyper-V, create a virt-who user on each hypervisor that runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines.
    • For VMware vSphere, create a virt-who user on the vCenter Server. The virt-who user requires at least read-only access to all objects in the vCenter Data Center.

Procedure Overview

  1. 「Virt-who Configuration for Each Virtualization Platform」. Use the table in this section to plan how to configure and deploy virt-who for your virtualization platform.
  2. 2章Creating an Activation Key for Virtual Machines. Create an activation key with auto-attach enabled and no subscriptions attached.
  3. 3章Attaching a Host-based Subscription to Hypervisors. Attach a host-based subscription to all of the hypervisors you plan to use.
  4. 4章Creating a virt-who Configuration. Create a virt-who configuration for each hypervisor or virtualization manager.
  5. 5章Deploying a virt-who Configuration. Deploy the virt-who configurations using the scripts generated by Satellite.
  6. 6章Registering Virtual Machines to use a Host-based Subscription. Register the virtual machines using the auto-attach activation key.