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Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

By : Pradeep Subramaniaan
Book Image

Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

By: Pradeep Subramaniaan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Maintaining an RHEV environment


If you are planning to perform a scheduled maintenance of your IT infrastructure where Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization runs, you need to perform a certain task to bring your Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure to the maintenance state.

The stop procedure

The following steps need to be performed in order to bring the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure to the maintenance state:

  1. All the virtual machines should be powered off to avoid any data loss while performing maintenance.

  2. Next, all the storage domains need to be put under the maintenance state. This can be done by navigating to the Data Centers tab and selecting the data center and storage subtabs in the bottom pane.

  3. Select the storage domain and click on Maintenance. Please note that you must deactivate the Master storage domain in the end.

  4. As the next step, you can mark the hypervisor host to the maintenance mode. To do so, navigate to the Hosts tab, select the host, and click on...