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===== 1.7. Provisioning =====



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The Red Hat Satellite Provisioning help to provision physical and virtual hosts. This includes setting up the required network topology, configuring the necessary services, and providing all of the other configuration information needed to provision hosts on your network.


The host running Satellite 6 is deployed on a dedicated subnet where it can enable DHCP, DNS, and TFTP services. Process of provisioning involves following process.


'''Importing Subscriptions and Synchronizing Content'''


* Creating a Manifest



* Uploading a Manifest to your Satellite Server



* Enabling Red Hat Repositories



* Creating Custom Products and Repositories



* Synchronizing Content





'''Content Management and Promotion'''


* Creating Application Life Cycle Environments



* Creating Content Views



* Adding Red Hat Enterprise Linux Repositories



* Adding Puppet Modules



* Publishing a Content View



* Creating and Editing Activation Keys





'''Finalizing Provisioning Configuration'''


* Creating Provisioning Templates



* Creating Host Groups





'''Provisioning Hosts'''


* Provisioning a Host Using PXE



* Provisioning a Host Using a Boot Disk







Although The solution of provision will be deployed as part of Redhat Satellite Server, the Initial provisioning of RHEV,RHEL,VM will not be done via this tool .RHEV Hypervisors will be manually provisioned and VM will be provisioned via RHEV Manager .Going forward,provisioning system of Redhat should be used to provision VM or RHEL Machines during operation phase.