Red Hat Virtualization and the OpenShift Container Platform go far back. Both products are very well integrated and share security features like svirt and cgroups which are a core security component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Svirt allows you to run your virtual instances as well as containers in full tenant isolation mode whereas cgroups…
Attached find the deck I presented at the VTUG in the New England Patriots stadium. It was a great experience. Thank you very much for attending my talk!
In the last few month I got quite a few requests on deploying RHV as a single hyper-converged non extendable node with local storage (not gluster). This blog post is going to show you how you can install RHVM on baremetal and add the same host which hosts the baremetal engine to RHVM. As always,…
Part 2 is going to show you how you can run the catalog item created in Part 1 from a custom button. Go to Automation – Automate – Customization – Buttons. Click on Cluster / Deployment role and create a new Button Group Now click on Configuration – Add New Button and add the following…
This post will explain what steps you need to go through to enable the ansible management of RHV on the first release of CFME 4.5. I assume that you’ve already enabled the Embedded Ansible role in Configuration – Server Control (enabling ansible automation inside can take up to 7-10 minutes) . CloudForms 4.5 comes with…
This howto is going to walk you trough an installation of hosted engine on rhel7 for redhat virtualization 3.5. Important, before you start make sure you have the following already setup (3 Hosts with these components): Network: Your hostname (hypervisor and hosted engine) must have a dns name which resolve! Storage: Have an nfs or…
Howto Resize KVM lvm guest image Here is how you add 5 GB of disk space to your guest: 1a. # qemu-img create -f raw temp.img 5G 2.a # cat oldimage.img temp.img > newdiskimage.img Sometimes you don’t have enough space to create a complete new image. If thats the case you can use this 1.b…
To use the #virsh console command on a RHEL6 Virtual Server you need to configure the guests. If you do not configure them, this Escape character is ^] Is all you get. For RHEL6 clients you have to configure 2 files: /boot/grub/menu.lst add the modification in bold: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz serial –unit=0 –speed=115200 terminal –timeout=10…
Installing KVM on RHEL6 is quite a simple process when having a yum repository. The main package is the kvm package (hypervisor). # yum install kvm To manage the vm’s you’ll need a tool called virt. # yum install virt-manager libvirt libvirt-python python-virtinst libvirt-client xorg-x11-xauth