Hi friends, i have some Theorytical problem about RHEV P2V.

1st: I wanna try for P2V in RHEV 3.0. I am looking for the flowchart for the same and I cant get help from google also. So can anyone please share some relevent flowchart or any working Theory or Working diagram of P2V.

2nd: I'd like to know that minimum how many systems are required for P2V ?
I mean as per my understing i'll need the following systems:
system 1 for RHEV-H
system 2 for RHEV-M
System 3 for accessing the RHEVM (i.e. Laptop with Windows 7)
system 4 conversion server for P2V client
system 5 P2V client (system of which the image is being created)

So am I going in right direction ? Do I really need minimum 5 systems for P2V ? because i am not using more than 1 system for RHEV-H.

3rd: Lets say i'll be able to convert the image of the system (system5), then where this P2V client image is being stored ? Is it taking space from RHEV-M (System2) or from Conversion server (system4) ?

FYI: I have created the /ISO directory and /export partition on RHEV-M (system2) as a NFS storage

Please let me know if i was NOT able to make you understand my post.

There are documents posted on the Red Hat knowledgebase website. You can access them with your RHN user ID. Since those are pay-for documents, please go to Red Hat and log in to view them.
RHEV is a commercial, PAY FOR product. If you're under the 60 day evaluation period, you can contact Red Hat. Not sure there is a minimum, but they can tell you what the requirements are. Some of the services may be able to run on the same system, and won't need a separate, physical/virtual host. Again, the Red Hat website has information:
https://www.redhat.com/promo/rhev3/sysreq.html
Should wind up on the M system, I believe. But again, you should contact Red Hat for support questions relating to a product you're paying for. Also, you rarely post follow-ups to your questions, or reply to what folks ask you. Saying "thanks" or even acknowledging folks have tried to help you wouldn't be a bad thing.

You create the bootable CD with virt-p2v, boot up your host with it, and it will read the machine's drives and push an image with preloaded virtio drivers to the v2v/p2v machine.


You need a working RHEV setup (RHEV-Manager plus a set of hosts it manages)
You also need a v2v/p2v machine, which can be a VM in this setup, or you can use the RHEV-M machine for that.

Then of course you need the client machine, which is being converted and your own workstation, because that is where you are sitting after all

The "conversion server will place the VM image and ovf in RHEV Export domain, from which you can import the VM into RHEV.

the VM will end up in this export domain you created.

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