Deploying RHEV Hypervisor

Before starting the hypervisor deployment, make sure the required hardware and software prerequisites are met as mentioned in Chapter 1, An Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

First of all, you need to get the hypervisor image by performing the following steps:

RHEV-H ships as an ISO image, which is required to deploy and configure hypervisor.

1. To download the hypervisor CD-ROM image, please log in to Red Hat Network at https://access.redhat.com/downloads/.
2. Click on the Download section and select Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
3. Download the latest release of the RHEV-H image (for RHEV-M 3.3) from the channel named Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (for the v6 server).
4. Write the downloaded ISO image of RHEV-H on to the optical CD-ROM media.

Installing the hypervisor

There are two methods to install hypervisor: interactive and unattended installation. We are going to use the interactive installation to better understand the different configuration...