Supported configurations

• CentOS 7 with Abiquo AIM agent installed

  • Last version installed for use in production was CentOS 7.2, QEMU 1.5.3, virsh 1.2.17

Installation

1. Download and install the latest version of the CentOS-7 64bit

2. Install the corresponding Abiquo release package. For example, for Abiquo 4.6:

   yum localinstall http://mirror.abiquo.com/el7/4.6/os/x86_64/abiquo-release-ee-4.6.0-4345.el7.noarch.rpm

    

3. Install required packages:

   yum install abiquo-aim kvm nfs-utils ntpd sos tcpdump abiquo-sosreport-plugins wget

Configuration

1. Disable SELinux. Edit /etc/selinux/config and set SELINUX to disabled .

2. Configure libvirt guests. Edit /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests and set ON_SHUTDOWN to shutdown .

3. Enable the abiquo-aim and rpcbind services:

   chkconfig abiquo-aim on chkconfig rpcbind on

4. Enable traffic to port 8889 for Abiquo Remote Services to reach the AIM agent on the host:

   Also configure access to VNC ports (59XX) as required.

5. Create this link on the KVM node:

6. Configure network interfaces.

7. Reboot the server for all the changes to be applied.

8. When running KVM on a machine without virtualization extensions, add the kvm.fullVirt property to abiquo.properties on Remote Services and/or Monolithic servers and restart the Abiquo Tomcat service.

9. If KVM is virtualized on a ESXi 5.x host, remove UUID lines from interface config files, and restart network:

10. Configure the datastores:
    When you add the hypervisor to the platform, it will detect and list the datastores

    • Do not use the Abiquo Appliance Library directory as datastore because this will cause performance problems

    • Do not use the root directory on the system disk

    • The default datastore on the system disk is /var/lib/virt. To configure this datastore, set the root path as / and the directory as /var/lib/virt

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