Chapter 3. Provisioning management with Red Hat Satellite
With Red Hat Satellite, you can provision hosts on various compute resources with many provisioning methods from a unified interface.
3.1. Provisioning methods in Red Hat Satellite
With Red Hat Satellite, you can provision hosts by using the following methods.
- Bare-metal hosts
Satellite provisions bare-metal hosts primarily by using PXE boot and MAC address identification. When provisioning bare-metal hosts with Satellite, you can do the following:
- Create host entries and specify the MAC address of the physical host to provision.
- Boot blank hosts to use the Satellite Discovery service, which creates a pool of hosts that are ready for provisioning.
- Cloud providers
Satellite connects to private and public cloud providers to provision instances of hosts from images stored in the cloud environment. When provisioning from cloud with Satellite, you can do the following:
- Select which hardware profile to use.
- Provision cloud instances from specific providers by using their APIs.
- Virtualization infrastructure
Satellite connects to virtualization infrastructure services, such as Red Hat Virtualization and VMware. When provisioning virtual machines with Satellite, you can do the following:
- Provision virtual machines from virtual image templates.
- Use the same PXE-based boot methods that you use to provision bare-metal hosts.
3.2. Additional resources
- For information about how to provision hosts with Satellite, see Provisioning hosts.
