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Configuring RHEV
Now, log in to the administrator portal and configure your RHEV environment by setting
up a data center, cluster, hosts, networks, and storage. By default, the RHEV installer cre-
ates a default data center and its storage type with a default cluster. Though the default data
center is sufficient for your development or testing purposes, it's strongly recommended to
create a new data center and name it something relevant to your location or application ser-
vices just in case you build a multitenant private cloud using RHEV. This will help you eas-
ily find the individual performance data and information relevant to that data center. Once
you log in to the admin portal, navigate to the tree pane and click on
Expand All
to view
the default logical components created by the installer. You can either use the default data
center created by the installer or set up a new data center and cluster and add the hypervisor
hosts to further set up your virtual environment. In this chapter, we are going to set up a
new environment with new logical components, such as a data center, cluster, and so on to
better understand RHEV.
Note
Please perform the procedure in sequence and don't skip any step.
The RHEV-M admin portal provides the tree mode and flat mode to manage your virtualiz-
ation resources. The tree mode displays resources in a hierarchical view per data center,
from the highest level of the data center down to the individual virtual machine. Working in
the tree mode is highly recommended for most operations.
The flat mode allows you to search across data centers or storage domains. It does not limit
you to viewing the resources of a single hierarchy. To access the flat mode, click on the
System
item in the tree pane on the left side of the screen, as shown in the following
screenshot:
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