Managing host placement and associations

Hosts in orcharhino define your infrastructure and are part of an organization and location to form logically structured groups. You can associate existing virtual machines to orcharhino to actively manage them through orcharhino.

Associating a virtual machine with orcharhino from a hypervisor

Associate virtual machines (VMs) on a hypervisor with orcharhino to manage them from a central location.

Procedure

  1. In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Infrastructure > Compute Resources.

  2. Select a compute resource.

  3. On the Virtual Machines tab, click Associate VMs to associate all VMs or select Associate VM from the Actions menu to associate a single VM.

Disassociating a VM from orcharhino without removing it from a hypervisor

You can disassociate a virtual machine (VM) from orcharhino if you no longer want to manage it. This does not delete the VM from its hypervisor.

Procedure

  1. In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

  2. Select the checkbox to the left of the hosts that you want to disassociate.

  3. From the Select Action list, click Disassociate Hosts.

  4. Optional: Select the checkbox to keep the hosts for future action.

  5. Click Submit.

Assigning a host to a specific organization

You can assign a host to a different organization so that the host is managed under the content, permissions, and settings of that organization.

If your host is already registered with a different organization, you must first unregister the host before assigning it to a new organization. To unregister the host, run subscription-manager unregister on the host. After you assign the host to a new organization, you can re-register the host.
Prerequisites

  • Your user account has the assign_organizations permission.

  • You belong to the organization that you want to assign to the host.

Procedure

  1. In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

  2. Select the checkbox of the host you want to change.

  3. From the Select Action list, select Assign Organization. A new option window opens.

  4. From the Select Organization list, select the organization that you want to assign your host to. Select the checkbox Fix Organization on Mismatch.

    A mismatch happens if there is a resource associated with a host, such as a domain or subnet, and at the same time not associated with the organization you want to assign the host to. The option Fix Organization on Mismatch will add such a resource to the organization, and is therefore the recommended choice. The option Fail on Mismatch will always result in an error message. For example, reassigning a host from one organization to another will fail, even if there is no actual mismatch in settings.

  5. Click Submit.

Additional resources

Assigning a host to a specific location

You can assign a host to a different location so that the host is managed under the subnets, domains, and settings of that location.

Prerequisites

  • Your user account has the assign_locations permission.

  • You belong to the location that you want to assign to the host.

Procedure

  1. In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

  2. Select the checkbox of the host you want to change.

  3. From the Select Action list, select Assign Location. A new option window opens.

  4. Navigate to the Select Location list and choose the location that you want for your host. Select the checkbox Fix Location on Mismatch.

    A mismatch happens if there is a resource associated with a host, such as a domain or subnet, and at the same time not associated with the location you want to assign the host to. The option Fix Location on Mismatch will add such a resource to the location, and is therefore the recommended choice. The option Fail on Mismatch will always result in an error message. For example, reassigning a host from one location to another will fail, even if there is no actual mismatch in settings.

  5. Click Submit.

Additional resources

Changing the content view environment of a host

You can change the content view environment of a host when you need to alter which content the host can consume from orcharhino.

Procedure

  1. In the orcharhino management UI, navigate to Hosts > All Hosts.

  2. Click the name of the host you want to modify.

  3. On the Content view environment card, click the options icon and select Edit content view environments.

  4. Select the environment.

  5. Select the content view.

  6. Click Save.

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