Red Hat CloudForms 4.1
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Define a new, scalable cloud infrastructure
Open Hybrid Cloud
An open hybrid cloud is built on the best opensource technologies and integrates seamlessly with the most reliable public and private cloud providers. CloudForms is the engine to create a hybrid cloud because it can create the bridge between internal infrastructure providers like VMware and external cloud providers like Amazon and Azure.
Container-Based Infrastructures
Configuration Management Providers
Run Your CloudForms Appliance in Any Environment
CloudForms runs as an appliance inside a virtual machine that you can host almost anywhere in your IT environment. You can use multiple instances and global mirroring for high availability, migrate as your environment expands, and run CloudForms in the infrastructure you already have.
Integrate Your Development and Application Tools
Performance and Capacity
CloudForms helps you define and maintain performance for your cloud instances through policies, quotas, and system profiles. Then you can track your workloads and capacity through SmartState analytics, chargeback, and Cloud Intelligence reports.
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Get Started with Red Hat CloudForms 4.1
For a basic x86_64 installation, you'll need:
Instructions
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Download the CloudForms appliance image for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
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Upload the appliance image to the RHEV server.
# engine-image-uploader -N NEW_IMAGE_NAME -e EXPORT_STORAGE_DOMAIN -v -m upload cfme-rhevm-5.5-15.x86_64.rhevm.ova -
Open the RHEV Administration Portal.
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Go to Storage > Template Import > Import, and import the image. Set the storage domain and cluster.
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Go to Virtual Machines > New VM, and create a virtual machine based on the CloudForms image. Select the CloudForms appliance from the list of templates.
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Select the new virtual machine, open the disks tab, and add a virtual disk.
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Start the virtual machine.
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Log into the CloudForms UI using 'admin' as the username and 'smartvm' as the password.
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Open the appliance console, and select Configure Database. Create a key, select an internal database, and set the disk for the database to use.
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The Basics
Introduction to Red Hat CloudForms
Product Manager Chris Wells discusses what CloudForms is, typical use cases, and integration with other virtualization products like vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
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Installation & upgrade
Install the Red Hat CloudForms appliance as an image on a supported platform, and then deploy a CloudForms instance as an easily scalable virtual machine.
Scripting
Customer Convergence: Integration and Automation
Red Hat Senior Technical Account Manager William Nix and Red Hat Technical Support Engineer Josh Carter covered deployment, automation, and cloud integration at a recent customer event in Raleigh.
Building clouds
Building a Cloud with Azure Providers
A provider is any platform which allows multiple virtual or cloud instances. That can be any public or private provider, including Microsoft Azure. Follow these simple instructions to set up a relationship between Azure and your CloudForms appliance and discover, provision, and manage instances in Azure.
Integrate with applications
Easily Manage Your VMware Infrastructure
This brief demo walks you through how to manage VMware resources with CloudForms. Unified management makes it simpler to manage your applications.
Performance & Capacity
Autoscaling
Product manager John Hardy covers to use the state machines and workflows to autoscale services that you model in CloudForms.
Additional Resources
Security
Setting up CloudForms High Availability
Minimize downtime and increase stability by creating a highly available environment. This reference architecture sets up an example scenario with two physical locations, global mirroring, and a hot standby server.
Troubleshooting
Help for common issues.
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