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=Storage Provisioning=
=Storage Provisioning=
Mount Point: /boot, Capacity 1024 MiB, standard partition xfs file system (/dev/sda3)
Mount Point: /, Capacity 50 GiB, standard partition xfs file system (/dev/sda5)
Mount Point: /swap, Capacity 4 GiB (/dev/sda6)
Leave the rest of the space unallocated, will create later the LVM pool.


=Dell=
=Dell=

Revision as of 03:18, 24 June 2017

Internal

Relevance

  • RHEL 7.3

Host Prerequisites

The host requires minimum 6 GB of free disk space and minimum 2 GB or RAM.

Installed with 50 GB root partition and 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap.

Host Installation

Install the host operating system as described here. The only area in which the installation procedure differs is the storage provisioning. When configuring storage, follow the Storage Provisioning instructions, below:

RHEL 7 Installation

Storage Provisioning

Mount Point: /boot, Capacity 1024 MiB, standard partition xfs file system (/dev/sda3)

Mount Point: /, Capacity 50 GiB, standard partition xfs file system (/dev/sda5)

Mount Point: /swap, Capacity 4 GiB (/dev/sda6)

Leave the rest of the space unallocated, will create later the LVM pool.

Dell

Packages

qemu-kvm
qemu-img
libvirt
virt-manager

Configure Log Rotation

Guest Creation

virt-install