HP Matrix 7.2 KVM Private Cloud Getting Started Guide
Contents
1 Overview of the HP Matrix KVM Private Cloud...............................................6
Features..................................................................................................................................6
How it works............................................................................................................................7
About user authentication......................................................................................................8
About storage.....................................................................................................................8
About backing up and restoring the appliance........................................................................9
2 Verify appliance and cloud configuration....................................................10
Checklist: Verifying the initial configuration and deployment.........................................................10
View the status of appliance compute resources..........................................................................10
About the graphical user interface........................................................................................10
Learn what the icons represent........................................................................................11
View the HP Public key............................................................................................................12
Acquire and install the HP public key........................................................................................13
About cloud networking..........................................................................................................13
About Activity notifications.......................................................................................................14
The Activity overview screen................................................................................................14
The Activity filters and date range selector.............................................................................15
Filter the Activity list............................................................................................................15
About VM host management....................................................................................................16
Hosts overview screen details..............................................................................................16
About virtual machine instance management..............................................................................16
Instances overview screen details.........................................................................................17
3 Plan an expansion of the cloud..................................................................19
Expansion considerations........................................................................................................19
Calculating the number of VMs that can be provisioned to a host..................................................20
A practical example of calculating cloud resources for VM replacement.........................................21
Determine corresponding VM size configuration.....................................................................21
Calculate the number of cores required.................................................................................21
Calculate the amount of memory required.............................................................................21
Calculate the disk space required........................................................................................22
Calculate the number of servers required...............................................................................22
4 Expand an existing cloud..........................................................................23
Checklist: Expanding the KVM Private Cloud..............................................................................23
Install RHEL 6.3 with KVM on the host before activation...............................................................23
Software...........................................................................................................................23
Networking.......................................................................................................................23
Storage............................................................................................................................24
Bring up the host’s network on the Host management subnet........................................................24
Activate a host.......................................................................................................................24
Verify host activation...............................................................................................................24
5 Deploy a virtual machine to the cloud.........................................................26
Checklist: Deploying a virtual machine instance to the cloud........................................................26
Add a Cloud User..................................................................................................................26
Specify a public key...........................................................................................................27
Add an image.......................................................................................................................28
Connect to Matrix OE.............................................................................................................28
Edit the Matrix infrastructure orchestration properties file..............................................................29
Set up an SSL certificate trust relationship between Matrix OE and the Matrix KVM Admin Console
appliance..............................................................................................................................29
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