第11章 Provisioning Virtual Machines in VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere is an enterprise-level virtualization platform from VMware. Red Hat Satellite 6 can interact with the vSphere platform, including creating new virtual machines and controlling their power management states.

11.1. Prerequisites for VMware vSphere Provisioning

The requirements for VMware vSphere provisioning include:

  • A Capsule Server managing a network on the vSphere environment. Ensure no other DHCP services run on this network to avoid conflicts with the Capsule Server. For more information, see 3章Configuring Networking.
  • An existing VMware template if you want to use image-based provisioning.
  • Synchronized content repositories for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information, see Synchronizing Red Hat Repositories in the Content Management Guide.
  • An activation key for host registration. For more information, see Creating An Activation Key in the Content Management guide.