To deploy the HCP VM system, you must deploy an HCP VM node on each KVM host. The following instructions explain how to deploy a single HCP VM node on a single KVM host and need to be repeated for each KVM host.
After the HCP VM connections have been added to Virtual Machine Manager, you can create the HCP VM nodes using the Virtual Machine Manager application or the command line. The instructions in this section explain how to deploy an HCP VM node using Virtual Machine Manager. For more information about using the command line to deploy an HCP VM, see Creating an HCP VM node using the command line.
Before you deploy an HCP VM system:
- Install the KVM packages (see Installing the KVM packages)
- Create network bridges (see Creating the bridge network files)
- Copy and unzip a .iso file on your HCP node (see Copying the .iso file and sending the Zip file to the KVM host)