Chapter 1. Installation Overview

Installing a standalone Manager environment with remote databases involves the following steps:

  1. Install and configure the Red Hat Virtualization Manager:

    1. Install two Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines: one for the Manager, and one for the databases. The second machine will be referred to as the remote server.
    2. Register the Manager machine with the Content Delivery Network and enable the Red Hat Virtualization Manager repositories.
    3. Manually configure the Manager database on the remote server. You can also use this procedure to manually configure the Data Warehouse database if you do not want the Data Warehouse setup script to configure it automatically.
    4. Configure the Red Hat Virtualization Manager using engine-setup.
    5. Install the Data Warehouse service and database on the remote server.
    6. Connect to the Administration Portal to add hosts and storage domains.

  2. Install hosts to run virtual machines on:

    1. Use either host type, or both:

    2. Add the hosts to the Manager.

  3. Prepare storage to use for storage domains. You can use one of the following storage types:

  4. Add storage domains to the Manager.
Important

Keep the environment up to date. See How do I update my Red Hat Virtualization system? for more information. Since bug fixes for known issues are frequently released, use scheduled tasks to update the hosts and the Manager.