Chapter 4. Managing Hardware Resources

Chapter 4. Managing Hardware Resources

4.1. Logging in as the Hardware Administrator
4.2. Viewing Hardware Resources
4.2.1. Viewing Hardware Resource Details
4.2.2. Managing Hardware Resource Quotas
4.3. Creating and Deleting Hardware Pools
4.3.1. Creating Hardware Pools
4.3.2. Deleting Hardware Pools
4.4. Adding and Removing Physical Hosts
4.4.1. Adding Physical Hosts
4.4.2. Removing Physical Hosts from a Hardware Pool
4.5. Moving Hosts between Hardware Pools
4.5.1. Move Hosts to Existing Hardware Pools
4.5.2. Move Hosts to a New Hardware Pool

This section describes how to set up and manage hardware resources. In a typical data center, a hardware administrator would need to:

Setting up, managing and monitoring the hardware resources is the key role of a hardware administrator. While this can be a complex task in any environment, it can become even more complex in a data centre with virtualized servers, hosts and storage. However, oVirt's Server Suite User Interface enables hardware administrators to manage a virtualized system efficiently.

4.1. Logging in as the Hardware Administrator

Before you can manage any hardware resources, you must be logged in to the system as the administrator. This gives you the requisite privileges.

  1. kinit as the kerberos admin user. (If you are using the developer installation, the password is "ovirtadmin").

  2. Browse to oVirt Server Suite User Interface page.

  3. The main page displays, with a summary of resources and lists of hardware pools, hosts and storage servers. On the left hand side of the page is the Navigator panel. Click the expand button on the default hardware pool. The resources display in a tree browser. On the right hand side is the Content Pane where details of the selected node and contextual menus display.

  4. Use the Navigator panel to navigate to a resource pool. You can also use the Navigator menu to add or delete resources.