Pre-setup preparations are required to create and manage RHEL5-Xen virtual machines as L-Servers of Resource Orchestrator.
For details on pre-setup preparations for RHEL5-Xen environment, refer to the RHEL5-Xen manual.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization Guide
URL: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Virtualization/index.html (As of February 2012) |
Preparations for Servers
In addition to the operations in "4.1.1.1 Preparations for Server Environments", the following operations are necessary.
Installation and configuration of the admin OS
Install and configure the admin OS of domain 0.
Installation and configuration of PRIMECLUSTER GDS on the admin OS
For details, refer to the PRIMECLUSTER GDS manual.
Storage Preparations
Check the following:
Volumes (LUNs) to assign to the admin OS have already been created
The LUN must be larger than the size to allocate to the L-Server.
Zoning and affinity have been set
The LUN has already been set as the shared class of PRIMECLUSTER GDS
Start the name of the shared class and single disk with "rcx".
Do not overlap the class name within the VM hosts registered in Resource Orchestrator.
For details, refer to the ETERNUS and PRIMECLUSTER GDS manuals.
Network Preparations
Check the following:
The configuration for the admin and public LANs has been designed
The network environment for the admin LAN is configured
The VLAN ID to allocate to the network resource has been configured
The virtual bridge has been configured beforehand
The MAC address range for the virtual network interface (VNIF) has been decided
When Using IBP
When using virtual L-Servers, connect the IBP uplink sets used for the public LAN and admin LAN to the VM host regardless of VIOM, after creating each IBP uplink set.
It is not necessary to use the same name for the uplink set and the name of the network resource.
Creating a Virtual Bridge
The virtual bridge is required on the admin OS, in order to connect the L-Server to the network.
For details on how to configure virtual bridges, refer to the manual for RHEL5-Xen and "Manual Network Configuration" in "E.4.4 Setup".
