Deploy a conversion host

You can use a conversion host to assist in the migration process.

Before you begin

  • Tenant access to a Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) environment.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.6 or later image uploaded into the Red Hat OpenStack Image service.
  • A RHOSO flavor with a recommended minimum 6 vCPU, 8GB RAM and 20GB disk.
  • VMware SDK.

Procedure

  1. Create a conversion host instance by following the instructions in Create an instance.
  2. Attach a floating IP to the conversion host instance following the instructions in Manage floating IP addresses.
  3. Log in to the conversion host as a cloud-user with the SSH key you created when you created the conversion host.
  4. Register your system either with the Red Hat Content Delivery Network (CDN) or with Red Hat Satellite. To register with CDN: 
    [cloud-user@conversion_host ~]$ sudo subscription-manager register
  5. Install the VMware SDK library and ensure that you have root ownership.