Cloud OSS - Hyper-V Service Manager | How to Create Guest OS (Linux) Templates in Hyper-V |
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This section provides information that will assist you in creating Linux based guest OS templates in Microsoft Hyper-V, that will be used by Interworks Cloud interworks.cloud OSS Service Manager during VM provisioning.
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27) In the Configure Settings tab, click on Next.
Fig 31. Choosing storage location
28) In the Add Properties tab, choose CentOS Linux 6 (64 bit) on the OS drop-down list and click on Next.
Fig 32. Choosing an Operating System
29) Finally, click on Create in the Summary tab.
Fig 33. Settings confirmation and VM creation
30) Wait until the VM creation is completed and close the Jobs window.
Fig 34. VM creation in progress
31) As soon as the VM is created, it will be listed in SCVMM console as belonging to a Hyper-V Cluster and/or a Hyper-V node.
Fig 35. New VM listed
32) Click on Power On to start the Virtual Machine. Notice that the status of the VM changes to "Starting" and then "Running".
Fig 36. Start the New VM
Fig 37. VM is starting
Fig 38. VM is running
33) Click on Connect or View->Connect via Console in order to connect to the console.
Fig 39. Connect to VM via Console
34) Choose to "Install or upgrade an existing system" and press Enter.
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37) Choose your preferred Language and Keyboard layout. Once you choose, click on Next.
Fig 43. Preferred language
Fig 44. Preferred keyboard layout
38) In the Type of Devices page, select "Basic Storage Devices" and click on Next. In the pop-up window, click on "Yes, discard any data".
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40) Click on the "Configure Network" button and edit the "System eth0" network interface. Configure the IPv4 settings so that you can access the template later on.
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Configure the IPv4 settings of your choice in the highlighted fields, as shown in the example below. |
Fig 48. Network configuration
Fig 49. System etho network settings
41) Select the appropriate time zone and click on "Next". In the following screen set a "Root" password.
Fig 50. Time settings
Fig 51. Setting root password
42) In the following screen select "Use All Space" and click on "Next". In the pop-up window, click on "Write changes to disk".
Fig 52. Partitioning
Fig 53. Write changes to disk
43) Choose installation type (Since this is going to be a server template, we choose the "Basic Server" option). The installation process will begin once we click on "Next".
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44) When the installation process is over, click on "Reboot".
Fig 56. Rebooting upon successful installation
4. Preparing the Virtual Machine for Template
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46) While the Virtual Machine is turned off, go to VMM console, right click on the VM and click on Properties.
Fig 58. Setting VM's Properties
47) Go to Hardware Configuration, click on the "Legacy Network Adapter" and then click on Remove in order to remove it. In the pop-up window click on Yes.
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49) Turn the Virtual Machine on and login as root. By default CentOS and Oracle Linux do not enable the network adapter on startup. If you run the command "ifconfig" you will only find the loopback adapter listed.
Fig 62. Running ifconfig
50) Also, by default the first adapter will be eth0. However, if we attempt to enable it by using the "ifconfig eth0 up" command we will receive a "no such device" error message as shown in the figure below:
Fig 63. Attempting to bring etho interface up
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This is because eth0 is assigned to the legacy adapter we just removed. In order to fix this we need to clear the existing adapter rules, and update the configuration file for eth0. |
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67) In the Identity tab, Specify machine name for this VM clone and click on "Next".
Fig 81. Specifying clone machine name
68) In the Configure Hardware tab click on Availability below Advanced and check the "Make this Virtual Machine High Available" option. Click on Next
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74) Go to VMM, click on Library, then right-click on the Library main folder and click on Explore.
Fig 89. Explore VMM Library
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76) Select Library in SCVMM console on the bottom left. On the upper left of the SCVMM console, right click on Templates and choose "Create VM Template".
Fig 91. Creating a VM Template
77) In the Select Source tab, choose "Use an existing VM template or a virtual hard disk stored in the library" and click on Browse.
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78)Select the VHD file you pasted in step 75. Click on OK and then click on Next.
Fig 93. Selecting VHD file from the Library
79) In the Identity tab, specify VM template's name, choose Generation 1 from the drop-down list and click on Next.
Fig 94. Specifying VM Template name and Generation
80) In the Configure Hardware tab, in Cloud Capability Profile section, check Hyper-V.
Fig 95. Select Cloud Capability Profile
81) Set Memory to at least 1024 MB and click on Next.
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83) In the Application Configuration tab and in the SQL Server Configuration tab click on Next.
Fig 98. Application Configuration
Fig 99. SQL Server Configuration
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