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The procedure will update the Dell firmware and drivers and then will pass control to the native O/S installer, that should be driven as described below. Note that '''the only areas in which the virtualization host installation procedure differs from a regular server installation procedure is''' [[#Storage_Provisioning|Storage Provisioning]] '''and''' [[]].  
The procedure will update the Dell firmware and drivers and then will pass control to the native O/S installer, that should be driven as described below. Note that '''the only areas in which the virtualization host installation procedure differs from a regular server installation procedure is''' [[#Storage_Provisioning|Storage Provisioning]] '''and''' [[#Virtualization_Host-Specific_Configuration|Virtualization Host-Specific Configuration]].  


* First configure storage, follow the [[#Storage_Provisioning|Storage Provisioning]] instructions, below.
* First configure storage, follow the [[#Storage_Provisioning|Storage Provisioning]] instructions, below.

Revision as of 22:37, 24 June 2017

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Virtualization Host Prerequisites

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

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

Virtualization Host Installation

if the virtualization host runs on a Dell server, install the host operating system following the procedure described here:

OS Installation with LifeCycle Controller

The procedure will update the Dell firmware and drivers and then will pass control to the native O/S installer, that should be driven as described below. Note that the only areas in which the virtualization host installation procedure differs from a regular server installation procedure is Storage Provisioning and Virtualization Host-Specific Configuration.

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.

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Virtualization Host-Specific Configuration

Virtualization Packages

yum install -y qemu-kvm qemu-img libvirt virt-manager libguestfs-tools libvirt-client virt-install libguestfs-tools-c

Configure Log Rotation

Guest Creation

virt-install