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4. Approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

At this point you should already have a Default data center and a Default cluster, which have been automatically created during the Manager installation. In addition, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors you installed in Section 2, “Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor” should have been automatically detected by the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, and attached to the Default cluster of the Default data center.
However, before they can be used, they require a click of approval from the administration portal. Perform the following procedure for each hypervisor.
To approve the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor hosts
  1. Navigate to the Tree pane and click the Expand All button. Under the Default cluster, click the Hosts icon. The Hosts tab displays a list of available hypervisors.
    Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor pending approval
    Figure 8. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor pending approval

  2. Select your hypervisor and click the Approve button. The Edit and Approve Host dialog displays. Accept the defaults or make changes as necessary, then click OK.
    Approve Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
    Figure 9. Approve Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

  3. A dialog appears, indicating that you have not configured Power Management for this host. For the purpose of this lab, click OK to continue. The host goes through a brief installation cycle. When complete, the host status changes from Non Operational to Up.
Note that both the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisors that you have approved were attached to the same host cluster, which means that they share the same network infrastructure, the same storage and the same type of CPU, therefore they can migrate virtual machines from one to the other. You can learn how to create new host clusters in Advanced Lab 7 - Add Additional Data Center.
Now that you have finished configuring your physical servers for use as the Manager, Hypervisors and administration portal client respectively, you are ready to customize and deploy virtual resources including logical networks, storage domains and virtual machines.