Chapter 10. Provisioning Virtual Machines on Red Hat Virtualization

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources and click Create Compute Resource.
2. In the Name field, enter a name for the new compute resource.
3. From the Provider list, select RHV.
4. In the Description field, enter a description for the compute resource.
5. In the URL field, enter the connection URL for the Red Hat Virtualization Manager’s API in the following form: https://rhv.example.com/ovirt-engine/api/v3.
6. Optionally, select the Use APIv4 check box to evaluate the new Red Hat Virtualization Manager API.
7. In the User field, enter the name of a user with permissions to access Red Hat Virtualization Manager’s resources.
8. In the Password field, enter the password of the user.
9. Click Load Datacenters to populate the Datacenter list with data centers from your Red Hat Virtualization environment.
10. From the Datacenter list, select a data center.
11. From the Quota ID list, select a quota to limit resources available to Satellite.
12. In the X509 Certification Authorities field, enter the certificate authority for SSL/TLS access. Alternatively, if you leave the field blank, a self-signed certificate is generated on the first API request by the server.
13. Click the Locations tab and select the location you want to use.
14. Click the Organizations tab and select the organization you want to use.
15. Click Submit to save the compute resource.

Procedure

1. In Red Hat Virtualization, create a virtual machine to use for image-based provisioning in Satellite.

2. On the virtual machine, install cloud-init:

   yum install cloud-init

3. To the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg file, add the following information:

   datasource_list: ["NoCloud", "ConfigDrive"]

4. In Red Hat Virtualization, create an image from this virtual machine.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources and click the name of the Red Hat Virtualization connection.
2. Click Create Image.
3. In the Name field, enter a name for the image.
4. From the Operating System list, select the image’s base operating system.
5. From the Architecture list, select the operating system architecture.
6. In the Username field, enter the SSH user name for image access. This is normally the root user.
7. In the Password field, enter the SSH password for image access.
8. From the Image list, select an image from the Red Hat Virtualization compute resource.
9. Optional: Select the User Data check box if the image supports user data input, such as cloud-init data.
10. Click Submit to save the image details.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > Provisioning Templates, and click Create Template.
2. In the Name field, enter a name for the template.

3. In the Editor field, enter the following template details:

   <%#
   kind: user_data
   name: Cloud-init
   -%>
   #cloud-config
   hostname: <%= @host.shortname %>
   
   <%# Allow user to specify additional SSH key as host paramter -%>
   <% if @host.params['sshkey'].present? || @host.params['remote_execution_ssh_keys'].present? -%>
   ssh_authorized_keys:
   <% if @host.params['sshkey'].present? -%>
     - <%= @host.params['sshkey'] %>
   <% end -%>
   <% if @host.params['remote_execution_ssh_keys'].present? -%>
   <% @host.params['remote_execution_ssh_keys'].each do |key| -%>
     - <%= key %>
   <% end -%>
   <% end -%>
   <% end -%>
   runcmd:
     - |
       #!/bin/bash
   <%= indent 4 do
       snippet 'subscription_manager_registration'
   end %>
   <% if @host.info['parameters']['realm'] && @host.realm && @host.realm.realm_type == 'Red Hat Identity Management' -%>
     <%= indent 4 do
       snippet 'idm_register'
     end %>
   <% end -%>
   <% unless @host.operatingsystem.atomic? -%>
       # update all the base packages from the updates repository
       yum -t -y -e 0 update
   <% end -%>
   <%
       # safemode renderer does not support unary negation
       non_atomic = @host.operatingsystem.atomic? ? false : true
       pm_set = @host.puppetmaster.empty? ? false : true
       puppet_enabled = non_atomic && (pm_set || @host.params['force-puppet'])
   %>
   <% if puppet_enabled %>
       yum install -y puppet
       cat > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf << EOF
     <%= indent 4 do
       snippet 'puppet.conf'
     end %>
       EOF
       # Setup puppet to run on system reboot
       /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 puppet on
   
       /usr/bin/puppet agent --config /etc/puppet/puppet.conf --onetime --tags no_such_tag <%= @host.puppetmaster.blank? ? '' : "--server #{@host.puppetmaster}" %> --no-daemonize
       /sbin/service puppet start
   <% end -%>
   phone_home:
    url: <%= foreman_url('built') %>
    post: []
    tries: 10pp

4. Click the Type tab and from the Type list, select User data template.
5. Click the Association tab, and from the Applicable Operating Systems list, select the operating system that you want associate with the template.
6. Click the Locations tab, and from the Locations list, select the location that you want to associate with the template.
7. Click the Organizations tab, and from the Organization list, select the organization that you want to associate with the template.
8. Click Submit.
9. Navigate to Hosts > Operating Systems, and select the operating system you want to associate with the template.
10. Click the Templates tab, and from the User data template list, select the name of the new template.
11. Click Submit.

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Profiles.
2. In the Compute Profiles window, click the name of an existing compute profile, or click Create Compute Profile, enter a Name, and click Submit.
3. Click the name of the Red Hat Virtualization compute resource.
4. From the Cluster list, select the target host cluster in the Red Hat Virtualization environment.
5. From the Template list, select the RHV template to use for the Cores and Memory settings.
6. In the Cores field, enter the number of CPU cores to allocate to the new host.
7. In the Memory field, enter the amount of memory to allocate to the new host.
8. From the Image list, select image to use for image-based provisioning.

9. In the Network Interfaces area, enter the network parameters for the host’s network interface. You can create multiple network interfaces. However, at least one interface must point to a Capsule-managed network. For each network interface, enter the following details:

   1. In the Name field, enter the name of the network interface.
   2. From the Network list, select The logical network that you want to use.

10. In the Storage area, enter the storage parameters for the host. You can create multiple volumes for the host. For each volume, enter the following details:

    1. In the Size (GB) enter the size, in GB, for the new volume.
    2. From the Storage domain list, select the storage domain for the volume.
    3. From the Preallocate disk, select either thin provisioning or preallocation of the full disk.
    4. From the Bootable list, select whether you want a bootable or non-bootable volume.
11. Click Submit to save the compute profile.

For CLI Users

1. To create a compute profile, enter the following command:

   # hammer compute-profile create --name "Red Hat Virtualization CP"

2. To set the values for the compute profile, enter the following command:

   # hammer compute-profile values create --compute-profile "Red Hat Virtualization CP" \
   --compute-resource "My_RHV" \
   --interface "compute_interface=Interface_Type,compute_name=eth0,compute_network=satnetwork" \
   --volume "size_gb=20G,storage_domain=Data,bootable=true" \
   --compute-attributes "cluster=Default,cores=1,memory=1073741824,start=true""

Procedure

1. In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Hosts > Create Host.
2. In the Name field, enter a name for the host.
3. Click the Organization and Location tabs to ensure that the provisioning context is automatically set to the current context.
4. From the Host Group list, select the host group that you want to use to populate the form.
5. From the Deploy on list, select the Red Hat Virtualization connection.
6. From the Compute Profile list, select a profile to use to automatically populate virtual machine settings.
7. Click the Interface tab and click Edit on the host’s interface.

8. Verify that the fields are automatically populated, particularly the following items:

   • The Name from the Host tab becomes the DNS name.
   • Satellite Server automatically assigns an IP address for the new host.
   • The MAC address field is blank. The Red Hat Virtualization server assigns a MAC address to the host.
   • The Managed, Primary, and Provision options are automatically selected for the first interface on the host. If not, select them.
   • The Red Hat Virtualization-specific fields are populated with settings from your compute profile. Modify these settings if required.
9. Click the Operating System tab, and confirm that all fields automatically contain values.

10. Select the Provisioning Method that you want to use:

    • For network-based provisioning, click Network Based.
    • For image-based provisioning, click Image Based.
11. Click Resolve in Provisioning templates to check the new host can identify the right provisioning templates to use.
12. Click the Virtual Machine tab and confirm that these settings are populated with details from the host group and compute profile. Modify these settings to suit your needs.
13. Click the Parameters tab, and ensure that a parameter exists that provides an activation key. If not, add an activation key.
14. Click Submit to save the host entry.