Installation Guide

oVirt Server Suite 0

Installation Guide

The comprehensive guide to the oVirt Server Suite installation

Edition 0.95

Chris Curran

Red Hat Engineering Content Services

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Abstract

The oVirt Server Suite Installation Guide provides detailed instructions for deploying the oVirt Server Suite. The book covers varying hardware and software configurations and installation environments from stand-alone developer installations to enterprise deployments of hundreds of nodes.

Preface
1. Document Conventions
1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings
2. We Need Feedback!
1. Introduction
2. System requirements and support
2.1. Requirements
2.2. Requirements for the stand-alone oVirt Appliance
2.2.1. Preparing to Install the Developer Version
2.3. Prerequisites
3. Stand-alone oVirt Appliance installation
3.1. Installing oVirt Appliance
3.1.1. Installing the Appliance from the oVirt website
3.2. Installing oVirt on a Physical Network
3.2.1. Setting up the Hardware
3.3. Installing the Appliance
3.4. About create-wui-appliance.sh
4. oVirt Server Suite Production Installation
5. oVirt Server Suite advanced installation topics
5.1. FreeIPA
5.2. PostgreSQL
5.3. Other Relational Database systems
5.4. Network service configuration - DNS and DHCP
5.5. PXE
5.6. Advanced PXE with Cobbler
5.6.1. Deploying virtual machines with Cobbler
5.7. Storage topics
5.7.1. NFS
5.7.2. iSCSI
5.7.3. GFS
5.8. oVirt Server Suite advanced installation
6. Deploying oVirt Managed Nodes
6.1. OEM hardware with pre-installed managed nodes
6.2. PXE network installation
6.3. Installing with locally attached portable storage
6.4. Key Distribution?
6.5. Multiple node deployment tips and tricks
7. Upgrading oVirt
7.1. Upgrading the oVirt Server
7.2. Upgrading managed nodes
A. Revision History