HOWTO: Installing CloudBolt on RedHat 7

This article describes how to convert a RedHat Enterprise Linux server into a CloudBolt Appliance.

Prerequisites

You will need the following:

• A RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 Server attached to your RedHat subscription and repos.

  • The server should be RHEL 7.6.
    • Other RHEL 7 versions may work.
  • The RHEL VM should meet these system requirements:
    • Hosted on vCenter 5.0+ or XenServer 6+
    • 2+ CPUs
    • 8+ GB memory
    • 40+ GB storage (the initial VM will use ~2GB if thin provisioned, ~40GB if thick provisioned)
  • The server should be attached to your RedHat account and subscribed to the following repos or an equivalent subscription:
    
    • rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
    • rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
    • rhel-7-server-rpms
  • This should be a single-use VM. CloudBolt is not intended to run on a shared VM.

• Download a copy of the CloudBolt 9.4+ Installer.

  • These instructions only work for CloudBolt 9.4+.
  • Find the latest installer at the CloudBolt Downloads Page.

• Download a copy of the CloudBolt RHEL Setup Script

 Installation Steps

Copy the CloudBolt Installer and install_cloudbolt_for_redhat.sh script to your RHEL server.

SSH into the CloudBolt server and escalate your privileges to be the root user.

In this example, the soon-to-be CloudBolt server has the IP 10.11.12.13.

[user@your-workstation]$ ssh user@10.11.12.13
[user@10.11.12.13]$ sudo su -
[root@10.11.12.13]#

Next, run the install_cloudbolt_for_redhat.sh script with the path to the CloudBolt Installer .tgz file as the only argument.

[root@10.11.12.13]# sh install_cloudbolt_for_redhat.sh cloudbolt_installer_VERSION.tgz

This will unpack the installer and begin the installation process.

If the installation is successful you should see the following message at the end of the installer:

...
**************
CloudBolt installer successfully finished!
verbose log saved to: /var/log/cloudbolt/install/install_200601.1620.log
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Please Reboot the VM and then visit https://10.11.12.13 to finish setting up your CloudBolt appliance.

Troubleshooting

If the installation fails, please reach out to a support engineer to resolve the issue.