Comments on: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV-M Demo

By: admin

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:37:06 +0000

Hi Jeet,

Unfortunately this was quite old post, but I will keep your words on it & if decided to build another RHEV lab I will keep you posted.

Enjoy,
Eiad

By: Jeet

Jeet — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:29:55 +0000

hi guys,

i think i can help with most of the RHEV related problems so please let me know if this post is still alive?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:09:03 +0000

Hi Sandeep,

I have to admit that my RHEV experience is kinda limited, specially when it come to NFS.

I hope another reader will point out the solution.

Thanks,
Eiad

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:23:20 +0000

Hi Eiad,

I am trying to install RHEV and have been successful in installing RHEV-Manager and RHEV- Hypervisor on 2 of the machines and moreover I want to add Storage Domain to be able to use it as NFS and upload ISO’s using ISO uploader but I am not able to succeed in that. Could you help me in this as I am stuck at this point of not being able to upload ISO’s to start installing the VM’s.

Regards
Sandeep

By: ex Red hatter

ex Red hatter — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:45:39 +0000

I really don’t know if it is relevant anymore, but RHEV has nothing to do with the clustering suite. In fact, GFS setups are not supported under RHEV at all… The only component used by RHEV that is borrowed from the cluster suite is the fence scripts (check it out). The entire clustering model under RHEV is completely different – it is storage based and not network based. Further more, it is much more scalable, it was tested for many of tenths of physical nodes.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:35:09 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I am not sure why you are getting the error, but few things I would check for:

Are you using English local or do u have any other local on the machine you are installing the RHEV-M on. Remember only English Local is support by RHEV-M at the moment as per RHEV-M Manual:

=======================================================
Note
Only the English locale is supported when installing the RHEV Manager on Windows
Server 2003.
=======================================================

Do you have Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 installed?

Do you have Windows Power Shell 1.0 installed?

Well, sorry but these would be my best guess. I hope they help you out

Enjoy,
Eiad

By: Andrew Joseph

Andrew Joseph — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:53:29 +0000

Hi,
I have installed RHEV-M on Win2003 32bit with servicepack 2, but while adding the hosts to RHEV-M,I got an error “Failed to install host server1.example.com UNSUPPORTED OS 5.4″.
Meanwhile I have installed Rhel5.4_x86_64 in my host side.

Any kind of help will be most welcome

Thanks in advance

By: Eiad

Eiad — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:06:39 +0000

Hi Artur,

To be honest I have not got the chance to try RHEV-M in the lab yet, but I had just watched quite few videos on how to set it up. I can see that a RHEV cluster that enable live migration and load sharing is easy to create as in the article you are pointing, but to achieve high availability in RHEV you will require to setup GFS & Red Had Cluster Suite which is where I have stated it will require a Red Hat Expert to setup. I have seen no video or document yet that claim RHEV-M will setup GFS or Red Had Cluster Suite for you, but all mention that you will have to set them up manually then integrate them with your RHEV solution to obtain high availability. If you have any different instruction on doing so, please leave a link to it in the comment. Thanks.

Eiad

By: artur

artur — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:48:39 +0000

Ian is right, you must create a cluster but is made of a very simple through the web interface RHEV-M( is not necessary to be a guru). other is to create a cluster on RHEL through Red Hat Cluster Suite.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.1/html/RHEV_for_Server_Administration_Guide/Working-with-Clusters.html#Administration_Guide-Create_Objects-Create_Cluster

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:07:03 +0000

I do disagree, and having installed both RHEV and RHEL I’m sure ….

RHEV and RHEL are two different products.

If you only had RHEL and you wanted High availability, clustering etc, the you need RHCS and GFS.

If you install RHEV then it manages it’s own storage and clustering without GFS or RHCS.