Setting up a virtual machine in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment
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Setting up a virtual machine in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment

Following is a high-level overview of the steps required for setting up virtual machines in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment. For detailed instructions, see the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization documentation.

To set up virtual machines in the RHEV environment.

  1. Before creating virtual machines, ensure that CPU and memory resources are available to create virtual machines on all nodes in the cluster.
  2. Make sure that the Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) service is running on the hosts where virtual machines are to be created. Before you create a virtual machine on a host, make sure that the state of the host in RHEV-M is up.

    # service vdsmd status

    Run the command on all the hosts to ensure that the VDSM service is running.

  3. Create virtual machines.

    See Linux virtualization documentation.

  4. Configure the network for virtual machines.

    See Network configuration for VM-VM cluster.

  5. Install the operating system in the virtual machines.
  6. Repeat the above steps for all RHEV guests that you want to be a part of the cluster.

    For more information on installing operating system on Storage Foundation components, refer to the See “Configuring Storage Foundation as backend storage for virtual machines”.

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