Reviewing minimum requirements for Red Hat environments

BMC Server Automation supports both Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platforms, Red Hat KVM and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (RHEV Manager).

• Red Hat KVM requirements
• Red Hat KVM access and privileges
• RHEV Manager requirements
• RHEV Manager access and privileges

Red Hat KVM requirements

You must have the following installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (or later) server:

• Virtualization packages
• The latest version of libvirt (version 0.6.3 or later)
• One or more domains running on the server
• The BMC Server Automation RSCD agent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat KVM access and privileges

For a Red Hat KVM environment, you must have root access to the Red Hat KVM host server.

RHEV Manager requirements

To employ BMC Server Automation in a RHEV Manager server virtual environment, you must configure the RHEV Manager server (running RHEL version 6.2 with RHEV3.0 installed) to act as a target server.

RHEV Manager access and privileges

For a RHEV environment, you must have root access to the RHEV Manager server.