RHVH 4.1 Installation Step by Step Guide Red Hat Virtualization Host

Red Hat Virtualization Host (RHVH 4.1) is installed using a special build (Download Link)of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. It uses an Anaconda installation interface based on the one used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts, and can be updated through the Red Hat Virtualization Manager or via yum. Using the yum command is the only way to install additional packages and have them persist after an upgrade. In this article we are going to see RHVH 4.1 installation

RHVH features a Web interface for monitoring the host’s resources and performing administrative tasks. Direct access to RHVH via SSH or console is not supported, so the Cockpit user interface provides a graphical user interface for tasks that are performed before the host is added to the Red Hat Virtualization Manager, such as configuring networking and deploying a self-hosted engine, and can also be used to run terminal commands via the Tools > Terminal.

Access the Cockpit user interface at https://RHEV-HOST-FQDN:9090 in your web browser. Cockpit for RHVH includes a custom Virtualization dashboard that displays the host’s health status, SSH Host Key, self-hosted engine status, virtual machines, and virtual machine statistics.

RHVH 4.1 Installation Step by Step Guide Red Hat Virtualization Host

Burn ISO image into CD/DVD or Attach ISO image to physical server using iDRAC / ILO / HMC hardware console, Boot from CD/DVD

RHVH 4.1 Booting Screen

RHVH 4.1 Booting Screen

system language selection

system language

Select Install RHEV 4.1 and Hit Enter

Appropriate / required language and click Forward

Installation Options

Installation Options

Time Zone Selection

Time Zone Selection

DATE & TIME –> Appropriate Time Zone

Keyboard Language Selection

Keyboard Language Selection

KEYBOARD and select language to type

Disk Partitioning

Disk Partitioning

LVM thin provisioned

LVM thin provisioned

Create either startandard Or LVM partitions preferred Logical Volume Manager (LVM Partitions) 

Final LVM Partition acceptance

Final LVM Partition acceptance

Network Settings and Host Name

Network Settings and Host Name

Set Root user password

Set Root user password

Using above wizard we can create Root Password and Create New User

root password

root password

After completion all the above options, it will prompt to reboot. Installation completed successfully.

That’s it Now login to RHVH using web browser https://RHVH-FQDN:9090 provide root user credentials

RHVH Login Screen

RHVH Login Screen

RHVH Options and Performance Monitoring

RHVH Options and Performance Monitoring

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  1. blank Ajit says:

    HI Ark, i am following your article to deploy DC. i have installed the RHVH4.1 virutalization host on host0 and added to RHEVM which is on different server with os rhel7.3. while creating new vm guest on host0 via RHEVM i am able to create but when i am open the console it showing only seabios version and Machine UUID. i changed the cdrom as 1st in boot option but no luck. Please help me if you face this issue.

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