How to register/subscribe a single RHEV-H/KVM system and the VM's?

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4
KVM

Issue

How to register a single RHEV-H/KVM system and how to register/subscribe the virtual machines that are running on this RHEV-H?

Resolution

Register the RHEV-H/KVM system first with the following commands and attach the Virtualization and a normal RHEL subscription to the system:

# subscription-manager register
# subscription-manager list --available   (look for the Pool ID of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization Subscriptions and for a normal RHEL subscription)
# subscription-manager attach --pool=xxxx
# subscription-manager attach --pool=xxxx

When the subscription for the RHEV-H system has been successful With the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization Subscriptions" you can subscribe an unlimited number of VM's.

The subscription of the VM's can be done through the following commands:

# subscription register
# subscription-manager list --available   (look for the Pool ID for the virtualization subscription with type virtual)
# subscription-manager attach --pool=xxxxx

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