RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION

(RHEV)
RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER is a web based graphical
management tool, it will simplify administer and control all aspects of
your virtualized infrastructure.
Its a hosted virtualization (Host and Guest concept)
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) includes RHEV Manager
(RHEV-M) -- a central KVM management platform for physical as well as
virtual resources(Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, built
directly from the KVM hypervisor)

HOST OS: This is the OS where you are going to install your hypervisor software like
KVM and virtual manager etc. This base OS so that you hypervisor start running as
KVM is not an OS it should run on a OS to get things done.

Hyperviser: Hyperviser is a software which will help us in implementing

virtualization. KVM, Vmware ESX and Xen are some examples of Hypervisors.

Virtual machine: Virtual machine is a virtual hardware allocated by Hypervisor for

installing Guest OS on it so that it can run as separate machine.

Cloning: Cloning is a concept to replicate a VM state/data etc so that we no need to

install a new OS. After cloning we can use the cloned machine as we use normal VM.

How To?
1) Login to RHEV-M
2) Click on Virtual Machines tab

RHEV Manager lists virtualized systems.

3) For each systems, you can see some information, like: Name, Cluster, Host (of
the cluster), IP Address (if set), Memory usage (%), CPU usage (%), Network
usage (%), type of virtual Display, Status, Uptime, RHEV user logged-in
4) Click on a system, and some icons appear clickable at the top of the screen

Suspend
(Stand-by)

Stop
(two click to power
off)

Conso
le

Migrate
Migrate to another host of
cluster

5) Also, apper some tabs at the bottom of the screen

The info of this tabs are in read-only mode.

6) If you click with right button of mouse on a system, appear a contextual
menu (tipically voice: New Server, New Desktop, Edit, Suspend, Shut down,
Stop, Migrate, Console, Change CD, Assigne tags)
7) If you want to install a system, first you can choose an ISO image from
contextual menu Change CD, then shutdown the system and power on (or
reboot). To confirm that youve changed CD, look at bottom side of the
window:

8)

If a system is power off, its possible change some parameters of virtual

machine (like boot order, disk size, NICs or CPUs number and so on); after
then, need to click on play button to power on.