Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) is an x86 virtualization product produced by Red Hat, based on the KVM hypervisor that enables management of unlimited guest machines.

Components:

• Red Hat Virtualization Manager (RHV-M): yum install rhvm-appliance
• Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisors: Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHV Host (RHV-H)

Features:

• RHV support scheduling policies that defines the logic by which virtual machines are distributed amongst hosts.
• Predefined Instance Types
• Dashboard
• Storage Quality of Service
• Host High Availability
• SSO using a Kerberos server

Commands

• yum install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup && hosted-engine --deploy (i will install yum install rhvm-appliance) which has to be available.
• nodectl check
• vdsm-client

vdsm-client Host getVMList

vdsm-client Host getCapabilities

vdsm-client Host getStats

vdsm-client Host getAllVmStats

vdsm-client Host getLVMVolumeGroups

• hosted-engine --deploy or ovirt-hosted-engine-cleanup to cleanup
• hosted-engine --vm-status
• engine-config

oVirt commands

• ovirt-host-deploy
• ovirt-hosted-engine-cleanup
• ovirt-hosted-engine-setup shell script
• ovirt-host-mgmt

Sanlock

Sanlock is a shared storage lock manager. https://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/vdsm/sanlock.html.

Logs: /var/log/sanlock.log.

Commands:

• sanlock client status
• sanlock client log_dump

Logs

• /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log
• /var/log/libvirt/qemu/HostedEngineLocal.log

VDSM

Vdsm manages and monitors the host’s storage, memory and networks as well as virtual machine creation, other host administration tasks, statistics gathering, and log collection.

• Logs: /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log

Activities

Basic

1. Read RHV Quick Start: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-virtualization-43-quick-start
2. Install RHV following https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/installing_red_hat_virtualization_as_a_self-hosted_engine_using_the_cockpit_web_interface/index
   1. Install RHVH Self-hosted Engine Deployment Host
   2. Install Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVM): yum install rhevm
3. Read RHV Administration Guide: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html/administration_guide/index

Advanced

1. Install RHV using NFS as a shared storage filesystem a troubleshoot problems following https://www.ovirt.org/develop/troubleshooting-nfs-storage-issues.html
2. Review Backup documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.3/html-single/administration_guide/index#chap-Backups_and_Migration and Veritas NetBackup support.
3. Read Red Hat Virtualization Life Cycle https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev

See also

• Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH)
• KVM, virsh, qemu
• Ansible ovirt/RHV module, https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/ovirt_module.html