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• Create computer groups:
  • all vm host computers
  • all vm guest computers 
• Map vm computer groups to management node group
• Add VM host computer:
  • Manage Computers -> Edit Computer Information
    • Hosthame: localvmhost
    • IP Address: 127.0.0.2
    • State: maintenance
    • Owner: admin
    • Platform: i386
    • Schedule: VCL 24x7 
    • RAM: 1024
    • No Processors: 1
    • Processor Speed: 2000
    • Network Speed: 100 
    • Type: blade
    • Provisioning engine: xCAT 1.x
    • Computer Groups: all vm host computers
• Add VM guest computer:
  • • Hosthame: vmguest-011
    • IP Address: current public ip address used by Windows XP VM
    • State: available 
    • Owner: admin
    • Platform: i386
    • Schedule: VCL 24x7 
    • RAM: 1024
    • No Processors: 1
    • Processor Speed: 2000
    • Network Speed: 100 
    • Type: virtualmachine
    • Provisioning engine: VMWare Server Provisioning
    • Computer Groups: all vm guest computers
• Change state of localvmhost to vmhostinuse
• Assign vm guests to localvmhost
• Create node in priviledge tree
  • Name: VM image access
  • Add resource groups:
    • all vm guest computers
    • all vm guest images

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• vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:5

  No Format
  DEVICE=eth0:5 BOOTPROTO=none STARTMODE=onboot USERCTL=no IPADDR=172.53.0.1 BROADCAST=172.53.0.255 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 ONBOOT=yes

• /sbin/ifup eth0:5
• vi /etc/hosts

  No Format
  127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.2 localvmhost 172.53.1.1 vmguest-1 172.53.1.2 vmguest-2 172.53.1.3 vmguest-3

Configure the Host Blade as a DHCP Server 

• vi /etc/dhcpd.conf

  No Format

  ddns-update-style interim; ignore client-updates; shared-network eth0 {    subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 {       # no dhcp support available       # we are not authoritative for this network       not authoritative;    }    subnet 172.53.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {       range 172.53.1.1 172.53.1.100;       authoritative;       max-lease-time 43200;       min-lease-time 43200;       default-lease-time 43200;       option routers 172.53.0.1;       option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;       option nis-domain "NA";       option domain-name "vcl.org";       option domain-name-servers 172.53.0.1;       option nis-servers noip;       option time-offset -5;       ignore unknown-clients;             host vmguest-1 {          option host-name "vmguest-1";          hardware ethernet 00:50:56:06:FF:01;          fixed-address 172.53.1.1;          option dhcp-server-identifier 172.53.0.1;       } host vmguest-2 {          option host-name "vmguest-3";          hardware ethernet 00:50:56:06:FF:02;          fixed-address 172.53.1.2;          option dhcp-server-identifier 172.53.0.1;       } host vmguest-3 {          option host-name "vmguest-3";          hardware ethernet 00:50:56:06:FF:03;          fixed-address 172.53.1.3;          option dhcp-server-identifier 172.53.0.1;       }    } }

• /sbin/service dhcpd start
• /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 dhcpd on

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