In this chapter, we discussed setting up various logical components such as data centers, and clusters, registering a hypervisor host to a cluster, cluster policies for high availability, setting up logical networks for end user traffic to access the application hosted on virtual machines, various configured and activated storage domain types to store virtual machine images, and backing up those images to restore or move them to other RHEV data centers.

In the next chapter, we will see how to create your first virtual machine on the RHEV infrastructure and templates from the virtual machines as golden images that can be reused. Later, we will see how to clone a virtual machine from the templates and take live virtual machine snapshots, which will be useful in a scenario prior to applying patches to your critical production workloads. Finally, we will see how to back up complete virtual machine images into an export domain to be reused later, or move them to other RHEV environments...