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5. Create Local Storage

At this point, you have installed your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and approved it for use with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. Now, you have to set up the host to provide local storage for the virtual machine disk images. Note that setting up local storage is suitable for a small environment, such as this evaluation setup. If you were deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization across a large organization, it is recommended that you use shared storage as described in Section 6, “Configure Storage”. However, for this lab, use the following procedure to add storage to your system.
To create a local storage domain
  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.
  2. Place the host into maintenance mode by clicking the Maintenance button. The Status field of the host changes to Preparing for Maintenance, followed by Maintenance. The icon changes to indicate that the host is in maintenance.
  3. Click Configure Local Storage. The Configure Local Storage dialog displays.
    Configure Local Storage
    Figure 88. Configure Local Storage

    On the General tab, specify the path to your local storage domain. For this lab, enter /data/images/rhev. Retain all the other default settings, and click OK.
  4. Your local storage domain is created, and attached to the automatically created Atlantic-Local data center and Atlantic-Local cluster.
    Automatically created data center and cluster
    Figure 89. Automatically created data center and cluster

You have created a data storage domain. Now, you need to attach an ISO domain to the data center and upload installation images so you can use them to create virtual machines.