Virtualization using XenEnterprise with Dell PowerEdge Servers and ...
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example, in case of CPU time contention, a VM <strong>with</strong> High CPU Weightage will be<br />
awarded twice the CPU cycles as compare to a VM <strong>with</strong> Normal, <strong>and</strong> four times the<br />
CPU cycles as compared to a VM <strong>with</strong> a Low CPU Weightage.<br />
10. Click the Install button to start the OS installation. Click on the Graphical Console<br />
to display the Windows setup program. The installation instructions are same as for<br />
any physical server install.<br />
11. After the installation process completes, install the high performance<br />
paravirtualized drivers. Click on the CD-ROM drive pull-down in the upper left<br />
corner of VM graphical console. Select XenSource Windows Tools, to start the<br />
driver installation process. Follow the instructions to install the drivers.<br />
Figure 4: Virtual Machine Configuration from Administrator Console<br />
Creating a paravirtualized Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 virtual machine (VM):<br />
To install a paravirtualized RHEL VM, the installation source needs to be on a network<br />
location, exported via NFS, HTTP or FTP.<br />
1. Select the <strong>XenEnterprise</strong> Host <strong>and</strong> click on Install XenVM button. The virtual<br />
machine configuration tab will appear.<br />
2. Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 Repository for the Install From field.<br />
3. Provide a name <strong>and</strong> description for the VM.<br />
4. Provide the number of Virtual CPUs for the VM. <strong>XenEnterprise</strong> 3.2 allows for a<br />
maximum of 32 virtual CPUs to be exposed to a Linux VM.<br />
5. Provide the amount of memory to be assigned for this virtual machine. You can<br />
allocate a maximum of 16384 MB of memory to a Linux VM.<br />
6. Check Start on Server Boot checkbox to automatically start the virtual machine<br />
each time after the <strong>XenEnterprise</strong> host boots.<br />
7. Select the CPU Weightage for the VM.<br />
8. Click the Install button to start the guest OS installation in text mode. Click the Text<br />
Console tab to display the installation screen. The installation instructions are same<br />
as for any physical server install.<br />
9. Refer to ‘Appendix B: Configuring VNC for XenVMs’ for specific steps to enable<br />
graphical console for Linux VMs.<br />
<strong>Dell</strong> Inc. 13 www.dell.com/virtualization
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