Requirements of RHEV
This post outlines the hardware and software requirements for installing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform. The requirements outlined herein are based on the minimum requirements for successful installation and configuration of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. Production RHEV installations may have additional requirements depend on infrastructure.
Hardware requirements
To setup a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment it is necessary to have, at least:
• One machine to act as the management server(RHEV-M).
• One machine to act as virtualization hosts(RHEV-H).
• One machine to use as client for accessing the Administration Portal.
• Storage infrastructure provided by NFS, iSCSI, SAN, or local storage.
Management Server Requirements (RHEV-M
The minimum hardware requirements outlined here are based on a typical small to medium sized installation.
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Minimum Recommended
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A dual core CPU. A quad core CPU
4 GB of available system RAM. 16 GB of system RAM.
25 GB of locally free disk space. 50 GB of locally free disk space
1 NIC with bandwidth of at least 1 Gbps. 1 NIC with bandwidth of at least 1 Gbps
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Virtualization Host Requirements (RHEV-Hypervisor).
A- CPU: The Intel64 or AMD64 CPU extensions, and the AMD-V or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions.
B- RAM: Virtualization hosts must have at least 10 GB of RAM and additional 1 GB for each virtual machine.
Software Requirements
Directory Services
Currently the two supported providers of directory services for use with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager are Identity, Policy, and Audit (IPA) and Microsoft Active Directory. You will be able to learn IPA configuration soon on my blog as i am preparing for this.
Client Requirements.
To access the Administration Portal, you need a client with a supported web browser. The Administration Portal supports the following clients and browsers:
Clients.
A-Windows XP,
B-Windows 7 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64), and
C-Windows 2008/R2 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64).
Browser.
Internet Explorer 7 and higher on Windows, with the .NET Framework 4 installed. Firefox 10 or higher With SPICE plugin.
To check CPU Parameters use following commands:
#grep --color -E 'vmx|svm' /proc/cpuinfo
you should see vmx flag for Intel or svm flag for AMD processor.
#grep --color -E 'nx' /proc/cpuinfo
you should see nx (No execute) flag is required for Hyper visor Installation.
Check detail of above options here
grep =command to match pattern
--color =display matched pattern highlighted
vmx|svm =cpu flags required for virtualization vmx for Intel and svm for AMD processor
/proc/cpuinfo =file that contains the system information
nx =no execution a flag that prevent buffer overflow attack, must be present for hypervisor.
This post outlines the hardware and software requirements for installing the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform. The requirements outlined herein are based on the minimum requirements for successful installation and configuration of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. Production RHEV installations may have additional requirements depend on infrastructure.
Hardware requirements
To setup a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment it is necessary to have, at least:
• One machine to act as the management server(RHEV-M).
• One machine to act as virtualization hosts(RHEV-H).
• One machine to use as client for accessing the Administration Portal.
• Storage infrastructure provided by NFS, iSCSI, SAN, or local storage.
Management Server Requirements (RHEV-M
The minimum hardware requirements outlined here are based on a typical small to medium sized installation.
===============================================================================
Minimum Recommended
===============================================================================
A dual core CPU. A quad core CPU
4 GB of available system RAM. 16 GB of system RAM.
25 GB of locally free disk space. 50 GB of locally free disk space
1 NIC with bandwidth of at least 1 Gbps. 1 NIC with bandwidth of at least 1 Gbps
===============================================================================
Virtualization Host Requirements (RHEV-Hypervisor).
A- CPU: The Intel64 or AMD64 CPU extensions, and the AMD-V or Intel VT hardware virtualization extensions.
B- RAM: Virtualization hosts must have at least 10 GB of RAM and additional 1 GB for each virtual machine.
Software Requirements
Directory Services
Currently the two supported providers of directory services for use with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager are Identity, Policy, and Audit (IPA) and Microsoft Active Directory. You will be able to learn IPA configuration soon on my blog as i am preparing for this.
Client Requirements.
To access the Administration Portal, you need a client with a supported web browser. The Administration Portal supports the following clients and browsers:
Clients.
A-Windows XP,
B-Windows 7 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64), and
C-Windows 2008/R2 (x86, AMD64 and Intel 64).
Browser.
Internet Explorer 7 and higher on Windows, with the .NET Framework 4 installed. Firefox 10 or higher With SPICE plugin.
To check CPU Parameters use following commands:
#grep --color -E 'vmx|svm' /proc/cpuinfo
you should see vmx flag for Intel or svm flag for AMD processor.
#grep --color -E 'nx' /proc/cpuinfo
you should see nx (No execute) flag is required for Hyper visor Installation.
Check detail of above options here
grep =command to match pattern
--color =display matched pattern highlighted
vmx|svm =cpu flags required for virtualization vmx for Intel and svm for AMD processor
/proc/cpuinfo =file that contains the system information
nx =no execution a flag that prevent buffer overflow attack, must be present for hypervisor.
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