Chapter 3. Installing

Procedure

1. From the Administrator perspective, click Operators → OperatorHub.
2. In the Filter by keyword field, type Virtualization.
3. Select the OpenShift Virtualization Operator tile with the Red Hat source label.
4. Read the information about the Operator and click Install.

5. On the Install Operator page:

   1. Select stable from the list of available Update Channel options. This ensures that you install the version of OpenShift Virtualization that is compatible with your Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS version.

   2. For Installed Namespace, ensure that the Operator recommended namespace option is selected. This installs the Operator in the mandatory openshift-cnv namespace, which is automatically created if it does not exist.

      Warning

      Attempting to install the OpenShift Virtualization Operator in a namespace other than openshift-cnv causes the installation to fail.

   3. For Approval Strategy, it is highly recommended that you select Automatic, which is the default value, so that OpenShift Virtualization automatically updates when a new version is available in the stable update channel.

      While it is possible to select the Manual approval strategy, this is inadvisable because of the high risk that it presents to the supportability and functionality of your cluster. Only select Manual if you fully understand these risks and cannot use Automatic.

      Warning

      Because OpenShift Virtualization is only supported when used with the corresponding Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS version, missing OpenShift Virtualization updates can cause your cluster to become unsupported.

6. Click Install to make the Operator available to the openshift-cnv namespace.
7. When the Operator installs successfully, click Create HyperConverged.
8. Optional: Configure Infra and Workloads node placement options for OpenShift Virtualization components.
9. Click Create to launch OpenShift Virtualization.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Operators → Installed Operators page.
2. Select the OpenShift Virtualization Operator.
3. Click the OpenShift Virtualization Deployment tab.
4. Click the Options menu beside kubevirt-hyperconverged and select Delete HyperConverged.
5. Click Delete in the confirmation window.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Operators → Installed Operators page.
2. Scroll or enter a keyword into the Filter by name field to find the Operator that you want to remove. Then, click on it.

3. On the right side of the Operator Details page, select Uninstall Operator from the Actions list.

   An Uninstall Operator? dialog box is displayed.

4. Select Uninstall to remove the Operator, Operator deployments, and pods. Following this action, the Operator stops running and no longer receives updates.

   Note

   This action does not remove resources managed by the Operator, including custom resource definitions (CRDs) and custom resources (CRs). Dashboards and navigation items enabled by the web console and off-cluster resources that continue to run might need manual clean up. To remove these after uninstalling the Operator, you might need to manually delete the Operator CRDs.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Administration → Namespaces.
2. Locate the namespace that you want to delete in the list of namespaces.
3. On the far right side of the namespace listing, select Delete Namespace from the Options menu .
4. When the Delete Namespace pane opens, enter the name of the namespace that you want to delete in the field.
5. Click Delete.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Administration → CustomResourceDefinitions.
2. Select the Label filter and enter operators.coreos.com/kubevirt-hyperconverged.openshift-cnv in the Search field to display the OpenShift Virtualization CRDs.
3. Click the Options menu beside each CRD and select Delete CustomResourceDefinition.