What you need for this book

To set up a demo environment for this book, you need a valid Red Hat account to access the Red Hat software and support portal or, optionally, an evaluation version of RHEV:

• https://access.redhat.com/downloads/
• https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-virtualization#evaluations

Please note that the current RHEV GA release is 3.4, but the book is based on a 3.3 release. So if you access the preceding evaluation link, it will direct you to 3.4. Please create an evaluation account, log in to https://access.redhat.com/downloads/, and choose the RHEV Manager channel rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3.3 for the manager deployment.

You will also need the following set of hardware and software in order to run the examples in this book.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 3.3

The following are the hardware and software requirements of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization manager 3.3:

• Hardware: The commodity's physical hardware or virtual machine
• Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5
• Software channels:
  • rhel-x86_64-server-6-rhevm-3.3
  • rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6 -c
  • jbappplatform-6-x86_64-server-6-rpm

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host

The following are the hardware and software requirements of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor host:

• Hardware: Commodity virtualization-enabled physical hardware supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5
• Software: RHEV-H image (for RHEV-M 3.3)—downloadable from https://access.redhat.com/downloads/

Optional requirements

The following are the optional requirements that are needed to run the examples in this book:

• Red Hat IdM Directory Service:
  • Hardware: The commodity physical hardware or virtual machine that acts as a directory server
  • Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5
  • Software: Identity management (ships by default)
• ISCSI / NFS storage service:
  • Hardware: The commodity physical hardware or virtual machine that acts as a storage
  • Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 5
  • Software: NFS/iSCSI-related package ships with default operating systems