10.6. Creating Hosts on Red Hat Virtualization

• If you want to create a host over a network connection, the new host must be able to access either the Satellite Server’s integrated Capsule or an external Capsule Server on a Red Hat Virtualization virtual network, so that the host has access to PXE provisioning services. This new host entry triggers the Red Hat Virtualization server to create and start a virtual machine. If the virtual machine detects the defined Capsule Server through the virtual network, the virtual machine boots to PXE and begins to install the chosen operating system.
• If you want to create a host with an existing image, the new host entry triggers the Red Hat Virtualization server to create the virtual machine using a pre-existing image as a basis for the new volume.

For CLI Users

• To use network-based provisioning, create the host with the hammer host create command and include --provision-method build. Replace the values in the following example with the appropriate values for your environment.

  # hammer host create \
  --name "RHV-vm1" \
  --organization "My_Organization" \
  --location "New York" \
  --hostgroup "Base" \
  --compute-resource "My_RHV" \
  --provision-method build \
  --build true \
  --enabled true \
  --managed true \
  --interface "managed=true,primary=true,provision=true,compute_name=eth0,compute_network=satnetwork" \
  --compute-attributes="cluster=Default,cores=1,memory=1073741824,start=true" \
  --volume="size_gb=20G,storage_domain=Data,bootable=true"

• To use image-based provisioning, create the host with the hammer host create command and include --provision-method image. Replace the values in the following example with the appropriate values for your environment.

  # hammer host create \
  --name "RHV-vm2" \
  --organization "My_Organization" \
  --location "New York" \
  --hostgroup "Base" \
  --compute-resource "My_RHV" \
  --provision-method image \
  --image "RHV_Image" \
  --enabled true \
  --managed true \
  --interface "managed=true,primary=true,provision=true,compute_name=eth0,compute_network=satnetwork" \
  --compute-attributes="cluster=Default,cores=1,memory=1073741824,start=true" \
  --volume="size_gb=20G,storage_domain=Data,bootable=true"