3. Connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Now that you have installed the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and Hypervisors, you can log in to the Manager administration portal to start using the Hypervisors and configure your virtualization environment.
Before logging in to the administration portal, you have to install .NET Framework 4 and modify the default security settings on the machine used to access the web administration portal. These steps enable your client to connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. The example below is applicable for Windows 2008, but you can also use Windows XP and Windows 7.
To configure Windows client to access the administration portal
Next, disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. Click → → . On the Security Information pane in the Server Manager window, click Configure IE ESC. Select Off for Administrators and Users to disable the security configuration. Click OK.
To add the administration portal to the browser's list of trusted sites, open a browser and click on → . Click on the Security tab.
Select Trusted Sites. Click Sites to display the Trusted Sites dialog. Enter the URL for your administration portal in the Add this website to the zone textbox. Click Add, then Close.
Click the Custom Level... button. Locate the XAML browser applications item in the list, ensure that it is set to Enable, then click OK.
Restart Internet Explorer to access the administration portal.
You can use Internet Explorer 7 and above to connect to the administration portal. The following example is applicable to Internet Explorer 9.
To connect to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administration portal
Open a web browser and navigate to https://demo.redhat.com:8443/RHEVManager
.
If this is your first time connecting to the administration portal, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager will issue security certificates for your browser. Click the link labeled this certificate to trust the ca.cer
certificate. A bar displays at the bottom of the browser, click Open to launch the Certificate dialog. Click Install Certificate and select to place the certificate in Trusted Root Certification Authorities store.
Back on the browser screen, click the link labeled here and follow the prompts to install the RHEV-GUI-CertificateInstaller
executable. A bar displays at the bottom of the browser again, this time click Run. Note that the actual certificate installation is preceded by an ActiveX installation.
When complete, a new link labeled here appears. Click on it to reload the administration portal.
The portal login screen displays. Enter the administrator's User Name and Password that you provided during installation, and ensure that your domain is set to Internal. Click Login.
You have now successfully logged in to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization web administration portal. Here, you can manage and monitor all your virtual resources through a graphical user interface.
3.1. The Administration Portal Graphical User Interface
The administration portal graphical interface has two modes: Tree mode and flat mode. Tree mode allows you to browse the object hierarchy of a data center, and is the recommended manner of operation. On the other hand, flat mode is used for objects which are not in the data centers hierarchy, for example the Users tab which does not appear in tree mode.
The functions of the administration portal GUI are described in the following figure and list:
Header: This bar contains the name of the logged in user, the sign out button, the option to configure user roles.
Navigation Pane: This pane allows you to navigate between the Tree, Bookmarks and Tags tabs. In the Tree tab, tree mode allows you to see the entire system tree and provides a visual representation your virtualization environment's architecture.
Resources Tabs: These tabs allow you to access the resources of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. You should already have a Default Data Center, a Default Cluster, a Host waiting to be approved, and available Storage waiting to be attached to the data center.
Results List: When you select a tab, this list displays the available resources. You can perform a task on an individual item or multiple items by selecting the item(s) and then clicking the relevant action button. If an action is not possible, the button is disabled.
Details Pane: When you select a resource, this pane displays its details in several subtabs. These subtabs also contain action buttons which you can use to make changes to the selected resource.
Once you are familiar with the layout of the administration portal, you can start configuring your virtual environment. Begin by approving your Hypervisor hosts for use, as detailed in the next section.