Chapter 5. Preparing a RHEL Machine with the Conversions Toolkit

Procedure

1. Connect your AWS account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. For more information, see Connecting an AWS account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.

2. Build a RHEL image with the conversions toolkit.

   1. Navigate to Services > Inventories > Images in your Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
   2. Click Create image.
   3. On the Image output screen, from the Release menu, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
   4. Ensure that the x86_64 architecture is selected.
   5. Under Select target environments, select Amazon Web Services.
   6. Click Next.
   7. Under the Share method, ensure that Use an account configured from Sources. is selected.
   8. Select your AWS source by name.
   9. Click Next.
   10. On the Register screen, under the Registration method, ensure that Automatically register…​ is selected.
   11. Select your activation key.
   12. Click Next.
   13. On the File system configuration screen, ensure Use automatic partitioning is selected.
   14. Click Next.
   15. On the Additional Red Hat packages screen, click Next.
   16. On the Custom repositories screen, click Next.
   17. On the Details screen, enter a name for the image and, optionally, a description.
   18. Click Next.
   19. Review image details.
   20. Click Create image.
3. Launch the image on AWS. Red Hat recommends that you select c3.4xlarge as the instance type. For more information, see Launching a customized RHEL image on AWS.

Procedure

1. Connect your GCP project to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. For more information, see Connecting GCP project to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.

2. Build a RHEL image with the conversions toolkit.

   1. Navigate to Services > Inventories > Images in your Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
   2. Click Create image.
   3. On the Image output screen, from the Release menu, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
   4. Ensure that the x86_64 architecture is selected.
   5. Under Select target environments, select Google Cloud Platform.
   6. Click Next.
   7. Under Select image sharing, ensure that Share image with Google account is selected.
   8. Select your account type and enter your GCP credentials.
   9. Click Next.
   10. On the Register screen, under the Registration method, ensure that Automatically register…​ is selected.
   11. Select your activation key.
   12. Click Next.
   13. On the File system configuration screen, ensure Use automatic partitioning is selected.
   14. Click Next.
   15. On the Additional Red Hat packages screen, click Next.
   16. On the Custom repositories screen, click Next.
   17. On the Details screen, enter a name for the image and, optionally, a description.
   18. Click Next.
   19. Review image details.
   20. Click Create image.
3. Launch the image on GCP. Red Hat recommends that you select e2-standard-8 as the machine type. For more information, see Launching a customized RHEL image on the Google Cloud Platform.

Procedure

1. Connect your Microsoft Azure account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. For more information, see Connecting Microsoft Azure account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.

2. Build a RHEL image with the conversions toolkit.

   1. Navigate to Services > Inventories > Images in your Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
   2. Click Create image.
   3. On the Image output screen, from the Release menu, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
   4. Ensure that the x86_64 architecture is selected.
   5. Under Select target environments, select Microsoft Azure.
   6. Click Next.
   7. Under the Share method, ensure that Use an account configured from Sources. is selected.
   8. Select your Microsoft Azure source by name and a resource group.
   9. Click Next.
   10. On the Register screen, under the Registration method, ensure that Automatically register…​ is selected.
   11. Select your activation key.
   12. Click Next.
   13. On the File system configuration screen, select Manually configure partitions. Allocate at least 20 GB of space for the / partition.
   14. Click Next.
   15. On the Additional Red Hat packages screen, click Next.
   16. On the Custom repositories screen, click Next.
   17. On the Details screen, enter a name for the image and, optionally, a description.
   18. Click Next.
   19. Review image details.
   20. Click Create image.
3. Launch the image on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat recommends that you select Standard_D12_v2 as the instance size. For more information, see Launching a customized RHEL image on Microsoft Azure.

Procedure

1. Build a RHEL image with the conversions toolkit.

   1. Navigate to Services > Inventories > Images in your Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
   2. Click Create image.
   3. On the Image output screen, from the Release menu, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
   4. Ensure that the x86_64 architecture is selected.
   5. Under Select target environments, select VMware vSphere.
   6. Select the required format for the image.
   7. Click Next.
   8. On the Register screen, under the Registration method, ensure that Automatically register…​ is selected.
   9. Select your activation key.
   10. Click Next.
   11. On the File system configuration screen, select Manually configure partitions. Allocate at least 20 GB of space for the / partition.
   12. Click Next.
   13. On the Additional Red Hat packages screen, click Next.
   14. On the Custom repositories screen, click Next.
   15. On the Details screen, enter a name for the image and, optionally, a description.
   16. Click Next.
   17. Review image details.
   18. Click Create image.
2. Download the built image from the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
3. Boot the image in a virtual machine on VMware.

Procedure

1. Build a RHEL image with the conversions toolkit.

   1. Navigate to Services > Inventories > Images in your Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
   2. Click Create image.
   3. On the Image output screen, from the Release menu, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
   4. Ensure that the x86_64 architecture is selected.
   5. Under Select target environments, select Virtualization - Guest image.
   6. Click Next.
   7. On the Register screen, under the Registration method, ensure that Automatically register…​ is selected.
   8. Select your activation key.
   9. Click Next.
   10. On the File system configuration screen, ensure Use automatic partitioning is selected.
   11. Click Next.
   12. On the Additional Red Hat packages screen, search for the firewalld package and add it to chosen packages.
   13. Click Next.
   14. On the Custom repositories screen, click Next.
   15. On the Details screen, enter a name for the image and, optionally, a description.
   16. Click Next.
   17. Review image details.
   18. Click Create image.
2. Download the built image from the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
3. Boot the image in a virtual machine.

Procedure

1. Build a RHEL image with the conversions toolkit.

   1. Navigate to Services > Inventories > Images in your Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
   2. Click Create image.
   3. On the Image output screen, from the Release menu, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
   4. Ensure that the x86_64 architecture is selected.
   5. Under Select target environments, select Bare metal - Installer.
   6. Click Next.
   7. On the Register screen, under the Registration method, ensure that Automatically register…​ is selected.
   8. Select your activation key.
   9. Click Next.
   10. On the File system configuration screen, ensure Use automatic partitioning is selected.
   11. Click Next.
   12. On the Additional Red Hat packages screen, click Next.
   13. On the Custom repositories screen, click Next.
   14. On the Details screen, enter a name for the image and, optionally, a description.
   15. Click Next.
   16. Review image details.
   17. Click Create image.
2. Download the built image from the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
3. Boot the image on your bare-metal machine.