Chapter 3. Deploying a Red Hat Enterprise Linux image as a virtual machine on Microsoft Azure To deploy a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) image on Microsoft Azure, follow the information below. This chapter: Discusses your options for choosing an image Lists or refers to system requirements for your host system and virtual machine (VM) Provides procedures for creating a custom VM from an ISO image, uploading it to Azure, and launching an Azure VM instance Important You can create a custom VM from an ISO image, but Red Hat recommends that you use the Red Hat Image Builder product to create customized images for use on specific cloud providers. With Image Builder, you can create and upload an Azure Disk Image (VHD format). See Composing a Customized RHEL System Image for more information. For a list of Red Hat products that you can use securely on Azure, refer to Red Hat on Microsoft Azure . Prerequisites Sign up for a Red Hat Customer Portal account. Sign up for a Microsoft Azure account. 3.1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux image options on Azure The following table lists image choices for RHEL 8 on Microsoft Azure, and notes the differences in the image options. Table 3.1. Image options Image option Subscriptions Sample scenario Considerations Deploy a Red Hat Gold Image. Use your existing Red Hat subscriptions. Select a Red Hat Gold Image on Azure. For details on Gold Images and how to access them on Azure, see the Red Hat Cloud Access Reference Guide . The subscription includes the Red Hat product cost; you pay Microsoft for all other instance costs. Deploy a custom image that you move to Azure. Use your existing Red Hat subscriptions. Upload your custom image and attach your subscriptions. The subscription includes the Red Hat product cost; you pay Microsoft for all other instance costs. Deploy an existing Azure image that includes RHEL. The Azure images include a Red Hat product. Choose a RHEL image when you create a VM by using the Azure console, or choose a VM from the Azure Marketplace . You pay Microsoft hourly on a pay-as-you-go model. Such images are called "on-demand." Azure provides support for on-demand images through a support agreement. Red Hat provides updates to the images. Azure makes the updates available through the Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI). Additional resources Using Red Hat Gold Images on Microsoft Azure Azure Marketplace Billing options in the Azure Marketplace Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bring-Your-Own-Subscription Gold Images in Azure Red Hat Cloud Access Reference Guide 3.2. Understanding base images This section includes information about using preconfigured base images and their configuration settings. 3.2.1. Using a custom base image To manually configure a virtual machine (VM), first create a base (starter) VM image. Then, you can modify configuration settings and add the packages the VM requires to operate on the cloud. You can make additional configuration changes for your specific application after you upload the image. To prepare a cloud image of RHEL, follow the instructions in the sections below. To prepare a Hyper-V cloud image of RHEL, see the Prepare a Red Hat-based virtual machine from Hyper-V Manager . 3.2.2. Required system packages To create and configure a base image of RHEL, your host system must have the following packages installed. Table 3.2. System packages Package Repository Description libvirt rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms Open source API, daemon, and management tool for managing platform virtualization virt-install rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms A command-line utility for building VMs libguestfs rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms A library for accessing and modifying VM file systems libguestfs-tools rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms System administration tools for VMs; includes the guestfish utility 3.2.3. Azure VM configuration settings Azure VMs must have the following configuration settings. Some of these settings are enabled during the initial VM creation. Other settings are set when provisioning the VM image for Azure. Keep these settings in mind as you move through the procedures. Refer to them as necessary. Table 3.3. VM configuration settings Setting Recommendation ssh ssh must be enabled to provide remote access to your Azure VMs. dhcp The primary virtual adapter should be configured for dhcp (IPv4 only). Swap Space Do not create a dedicated swap file or swap partition. You can configure swap space with the Windows Azure Linux Agent (WALinuxAgent). NIC Choose virtio for the primary virtual network adapter. encryption For custom images, use Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) for full disk encryption on Azure. 3.2.4. Creating a base image from an ISO image The following procedure lists the steps and initial configuration requirements for creating a custom ISO image. Once you have configured the image, you can use the image as a template for creating additional VM instances. Prerequisites Ensure that you have enabled your host machine for virtualization. See Enabling virtualization in RHEL 8 for information and procedures. Procedure Download the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 DVD ISO image from the Red Hat Customer Portal . Create and start a basic Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM. For instructions, see Creating virtual machines . If you use the command line to create your VM, ensure that you set the default memory and CPUs to the capacity you want for the VM. Set your virtual network interface to virtio . For example, the following command creates a kvmtest VM by using the rhel-8.0-x86_64-kvm.qcow2 image: If you use the web console to create your VM, follow the procedure in Creating virtual machines using the web console , with these caveats: Do not check Immediately Start VM . Change your Memory size to your preferred settings. Before you start the installation, ensure that you have changed Model under Virtual Network Interface Settings to virtio and change your vCPUs to the capacity settings you want for the VM. Review the following additional installation selection and modifications. Select Minimal Install with the standard RHEL option. For Installation Destination , select Custom Storage Configuration . Use the following configuration information to make your selections. Verify at least 500 MB for /boot . For file system, use xfs, ext4, or ext3 for both boot and root partitions. Remove swap space. Swap space is configured on the physical blade server in Azure by the WALinuxAgent. On the Installation Summary screen, select Network and Host Name . Switch Ethernet to On . When the install starts: Create a root password. Create an administrative user account. When installation is complete, reboot the VM and log in to the root account. Once you are logged in as root , you can configure the image. 3.3. Configuring a custom base image for Microsoft Azure To deploy a RHEL 8 virtual machine (VM) with specific settings in Azure, you can create a custom base image for the VM. The following sections describe additional configuration changes that Azure requires. 3.3.1. Installing Hyper-V device drivers Microsoft provides network and storage device drivers as part of their Linux Integration Services (LIS) for Hyper-V package. You may need to install Hyper-V device drivers on the VM image prior to provisioning it as an Azure virtual machine (VM). Use the lsinitrd | grep hv command to verify that the drivers are installed. Procedure Enter the following grep command to determine if the required Hyper-V device drivers are installed. In the example below, all required drivers are installed. If all the drivers are not installed, complete the remaining steps. Note An hv_vmbus driver may exist in the environment. Even if this driver is present, complete the following steps. Create a file named hv.conf in /etc/dracut.conf.d . Add the following driver parameters to the hv.conf file. Note Note the spaces before and after the quotes, for example, add_drivers+=" hv_vmbus " . This ensures that unique drivers are loaded in the event that other Hyper-V drivers already exist in the environment. Regenerate the initramfs image. Verification Reboot the machine. Run the lsinitrd | grep hv command to verify that the drivers are installed. 3.3.2. Making configuration changes required for a Microsoft Azure deployment Before you deploy your custom base image to Azure, you must perform additional configuration changes to ensure that the virtual machine (VM) can properly operate in Azure. Procedure Log in to the VM. Register the VM, and enable the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 repository. Ensure that the cloud-init and hyperv-daemons packages are installed. Create cloud-init configuration files that are needed for integration with Azure services: To enable logging to the Hyper-V Data Exchange Service (KVP), create the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/10-azure-kvp.cfg configuration file and add the following lines to that file. To add Azure as a datasource, create the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/91-azure_datasource.cfg configuration file, and add the following lines to that file. To ensure that specific kernel modules are blocked from loading automatically, edit or create the /etc/modprobe.d/blocklist.conf file and add the following lines to that file. Modify udev network device rules: Remove the following persistent network device rules if present. To ensure that Accelerated Networking on Azure works as intended, create a new network device rule /etc/udev/rules.d/68-azure-sriov-nm-unmanaged.rules and add the following line to it. Set the sshd service to start automatically. Modify kernel boot parameters: Open the /etc/default/grub file, and ensure the GRUB_TIMEOUT line has the following value. Remove the following options from the end of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line if present. Ensure the /etc/default/grub file contains the following lines with all the specified options. Note If you do not plan to run your workloads on HDDs, add elevator=none to the end of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line. This sets the I/O scheduler to none , which improves I/O performance when running workloads on SSDs. Regenerate the grub.cfg file. On a BIOS-based machine: On a UEFI-based machine: If your system uses a non-default location for grub.cfg , adjust the command accordingly. Configure the Windows Azure Linux Agent ( WALinuxAgent ): Install and enable the WALinuxAgent package. To ensure that a swap partition is not used in provisioned VMs, edit the following lines in the /etc/waagent.conf file. Prepare the VM for Azure provisioning: Unregister the VM from Red Hat Subscription Manager. Clean up the existing provisioning details. Note This command generates warnings, which are expected because Azure handles the provisioning of VMs automatically. Clean the shell history and shut down the VM. 3.4. Converting the image to a fixed VHD format All Microsoft Azure VM images must be in a fixed VHD format. The image must be aligned on a 1 MB boundary before it is converted to VHD. To convert the image from qcow2 to a fixed VHD format and align the image, see the following procedure. Once you have converted the image, you can upload it to Azure. Procedure Convert the image from qcow2 to raw format. Create a shell script with the following content. Run the script. This example uses the name align.sh . If the message "Your image is already aligned. You do not need to resize." displays, proceed to the following step. If a value displays, your image is not aligned. Use the following command to convert the file to a fixed VHD format. The sample uses qemu-img version 2.12.0. Once converted, the VHD file is ready to upload to Azure. If the raw image is not aligned, complete the following steps to align it. Resize the raw file by using the rounded value displayed when you ran the verification script. Convert the raw image file to a VHD format. The sample uses qemu-img version 2.12.0. Once converted, the VHD file is ready to upload to Azure. 3.5. Installing the Azure CLI Complete the following steps to install the Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI 2.1). Azure CLI 2.1 is a Python-based utility that creates and manages VMs in Azure. Prerequisites You need to have an account with Microsoft Azure before you can use the Azure CLI. The Azure CLI installation requires Python 3.x. Procedure Import the Microsoft repository key. Create a local Azure CLI repository entry. Update the yum package index. Check your Python version ( python --version ) and install Python 3.x, if necessary. Install the Azure CLI. Run the Azure CLI. Additional resources Azure CLI Azure CLI command reference 3.6. Creating resources in Azure Complete the following procedure to create the Azure resources that you need before you can upload the VHD file and create the Azure image. Procedure Authenticate your system with Azure and log in. Note If a browser is available in your environment, the CLI opens your browser to the Azure sign-in page. See Sign in with Azure CLI for more information and options. Create a resource group in an Azure region. Example: Create a storage account. See SKU Types for more information about valid SKU values. Example: Get the storage account connection string. Example: Export the connection string by copying the connection string and pasting it into the following command. This string connects your system to the storage account. Example: Create the storage container. Example: Create a virtual network. Example: Additional resources Azure Managed Disks Overview SKU Types 3.7. Uploading and creating an Azure image Complete the following steps to upload the VHD file to your container and create an Azure custom image. Note The exported storage connection string does not persist after a system reboot. If any of the commands in the following steps fail, export the connection string again. Procedure Upload the VHD file to the storage container. It may take several minutes. To get a list of storage containers, enter the az storage container list command. Example: Get the URL for the uploaded VHD file to use in the following step. Example: Create the Azure custom image. Note The default hypervisor generation of the VM is V1. You can optionally specify a V2 hypervisor generation by including the option --hyper-v-generation V2 . Generation 2 VMs use a UEFI-based boot architecture. See Support for generation 2 VMs on Azure for information about generation 2 VMs. The command may return the error "Only blobs formatted as VHDs can be imported." This error may mean that the image was not aligned to the nearest 1 MB boundary before it was converted to VHD . Example: 3.8. Creating and starting the VM in Azure The following steps provide the minimum command options to create a managed-disk Azure VM from the image. See az vm create for additional options. Procedure Enter the following command to create the VM. Note The option --generate-ssh-keys creates a private/public key pair. Private and public key files are created in ~/.ssh on your system. The public key is added to the authorized_keys file on the VM for the user specified by the --admin-username option. See Other authentication methods for additional information. Example: [clouduser@localhost]USD az vm create \ -g azrhelclirsgrp2 -l southcentralus -n rhel-azure-vm-1 \ --vnet-name azrhelclivnet1 --subnet azrhelclisubnet1 --size Standard_A2 \ --os-disk-name vm-1-osdisk --admin-username clouduser \ --generate-ssh-keys --image rhel8 { "fqdns": "", "id": "/subscriptions//resourceGroups/azrhelclirsgrp/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/rhel-azure-vm-1", "location": "southcentralus", "macAddress": "", "powerState": "VM running", "privateIpAddress": "10.0.0.4", "publicIpAddress": " <public-IP-address> ", "resourceGroup": "azrhelclirsgrp2" Note the publicIpAddress . You need this address to log in to the VM in the following step. Start an SSH session and log in to the VM. If you see a user prompt, you have successfully deployed your Azure VM. You can now go to the Microsoft Azure portal and check the audit logs and properties of your resources. You can manage your VMs directly in this portal. If you are managing multiple VMs, you should use the Azure CLI. The Azure CLI provides a powerful interface to your resources in Azure. Enter az --help in the CLI or see the Azure CLI command reference to learn more about the commands you use to manage your VMs in Microsoft Azure. 3.9. Other authentication methods While recommended for increased security, using the Azure-generated key pair is not required. The following examples show two methods for SSH authentication. Example 1: These command options provision a new VM without generating a public key file. They allow SSH authentication by using a password. Example 2: These command options provision a new Azure VM and allow SSH authentication by using an existing public key file. 3.10. Attaching Red Hat subscriptions Using the subscription-manager command, you can register and attach your Red Hat subscription to a RHEL instance. Prerequisites You must have enabled your subscriptions. Procedure Register your system. Attach your subscriptions. You can use an activation key to attach subscriptions. See Creating Red Hat Customer Portal Activation Keys for more information. Alternatively, you can manually attach a subscription by using the ID of the subscription pool (Pool ID). See Attaching a host-based subscription to hypervisors . Optional: To collect various system metrics about the instance in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console , you can register the instance with Red Hat Insights . For information on further configuration of Red Hat Insights, see Client Configuration Guide for Red Hat Insights . Additional resources Creating Red Hat Customer Portal Activation Keys Attaching a host-based subscription to hypervisors Client Configuration Guide for Red Hat Insights 3.11. Setting up automatic registration on Azure Gold Images To make deploying RHEL 8 virtual machines (VM) on Micorsoft Azure faster and more comfortable, you can set up Gold Images of RHEL 8 to be automatically registered to the Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM). Prerequisites RHEL 8 Gold Images are available to you in Microsoft Azure. For instructions, see Using Gold Images on Azure . Note A Microsoft Azure account can only be attached to a single Red Hat account at a time. Therefore, ensure no other users require access to the Azure account before attaching it to your Red Hat one. Procedure Use the Gold Image to create a RHEL 8 VM in your Azure instance. For instructions, see Creating and starting the VM in Azure . Start the created VM. In the RHEL 8 VM, enable automatic registration. Enable the rhsmcertd service. Disable the redhat.repo repository. Power off the VM, and save it as a managed image on Azure. For instructions, see How to create a managed image of a virtual machine or VHD . Create VMs by using the managed image. They will be automatically subscribed to RHSM. Verification In a RHEL 8 VM created using the above instructions, verify the system is registered to RHSM by executing the subscription-manager identity command. On a successfully registered system, this displays the UUID of the system. For example: Additional resources Red Hat Gold Images in Azure Overview of RHEL images in Azure Configuring cloud integration for Red Hat services 3.12. Configuring kdump for Microsoft Azure instances If a kernel crash occurs in a RHEL instance, you can use the kdump service to determine the cause of the crash. If kdump is configured correctly when your instance kernel terminates unexpectedly, kdump generates a dump file, known as crash dump or a vmcore file. You can then analyze the file to find why the crash occurred and to debug your system. For kdump to work on Microsoft Azure instances, you might need to adjust the kdump reserved memory and the vmcore target to fit VM sizes and RHEL versions. Prerequisites You are using a Microsoft Azure environment that supports kdump : Standard_DS2_v2 VM Standard NV16as v4 Standard M416-208s v2 Standard M416ms v2 You have root permissions on the system. Your system meets the requirements for kdump configurations and targets. For details, see Supported kdump configurations and targets . Procedure Ensure that kdump and other necessary packages are installed on your system. Verify that the default location for crash dump files is set in the kdump configuration file and that the /var/crash file is available. Based on the size and version of your RHEL virtual machine (VM) instance, decide whether you need a vmcore target with more free space, such as /mnt/crash . To do so, use the following table. Table 3.4. Virtual machine sizes that have been tested with GEN2 VM on Azure RHEL Version Standard DS1 v2 (1 vCPU, 3.5GiB) Standard NV16as v4 (16 vCPUs, 56 GiB) Standard M416-208s v2 (208 vCPUs, 5700 GiB) Standard M416ms v2 (416 vCPUs, 11400 GiB) RHEL 8.3 - RHEL 8.6 Default Default Target Target RHEL 8.7 - RHEL 8.9 Default Default Target Target + Memory Default indicates that kdump works as expected with the default memory and the default kdump target. The default kdump target is /var/crash . Target indicates that kdump works as expected with the default memory. However, you might need to assign a target with more free space. Target + Memory indicates that kdump requires more memory than the default and a target with more free space. If your instance requires it, assign a target with more free space, such as /mnt/crash . To do so, edit the /etc/kdump.conf file and replace the default path. The option path /mnt/crash represents the path to the file system in which kdump saves the crash dump file. For more options, such as writing the crash dump file to a different partition, directly to a device or storing it to a remote machine, see Configuring the kdump target . If your instance requires it, increase the crash kernel size to the sufficient size for kdump to capture the vmcore by adding the respective boot parameter. For example, for a Standard M416-208s v2 VM, the sufficient size is 512 MB, so the boot parameter would be crashkernel=512M . Open the GRUB configuration file and add crashkernel=512M to the boot parameter line. Update the GRUB configuration file. Reboot the VM to allocate separate kernel crash memory to the VM. Verification Ensure that kdump is active and running. Additional resources Installing kdump How to troubleshoot kernel crashes, hangs, or reboots with kdump on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Red Hat Knowledgebase) Memory requirements for kdump 3.13. Additional resources Red Hat in the Public Cloud Red Hat Cloud Access Reference Guide Frequently Asked Questions and Recommended Practices for Microsoft Azure

Commands:
virt-install --name kvmtest --memory 2048 --vcpus 2 --disk rhel-8.0-x86_64-kvm.qcow2,bus=virtio --import --os-variant=rhel8.0
lsinitrd | grep hv
lsinitrd | grep hv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 12 14:21 usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-932.el8.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hv -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31272 Aug 11 08:45 usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-932.el8.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hv/hv_vmbus.ko.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25132 Aug 11 08:46 usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-932.el8.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/hyperv/hv_netvsc.ko.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9796 Aug 11 08:45 usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-932.el8.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/hv_storvsc.ko.xz
add_drivers+=" hv_vmbus " add_drivers+=" hv_netvsc " add_drivers+=" hv_storvsc " add_drivers+=" nvme "
dracut -f -v --regenerate-all
subscription-manager register --auto-attach Installed Product Current Status: Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 Status: Subscribed
yum install cloud-init hyperv-daemons -y
reporting: logging: type: log telemetry: type: hyperv
datasource_list: [ Azure ] datasource: Azure: apply_network_config: False
blacklist nouveau blacklist lbm-nouveau blacklist floppy blacklist amdgpu blacklist skx_edac blacklist intel_cstate
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot-rules
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="hv_pci", ACTION=="add", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1"
systemctl enable sshd systemctl is-enabled sshd
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
rhgb quiet
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="loglevel=3 crashkernel=auto console=tty1 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0 rootdelay=300" GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=countdown GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console" GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1"
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg
yum install WALinuxAgent -y systemctl enable waagent
Provisioning.DeleteRootPassword=y ResourceDisk.Format=n ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=n
subscription-manager unregister
waagent -force -deprovision
export HISTSIZE=0 poweroff
qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw <image-name> .qcow2 <image-name> .raw
#!/bin/bash MB=USD((1024 * 1024)) size=USD(qemu-img info -f raw --output json "USD1" | gawk 'match(USD0, /"virtual-size": ([0-9]+),/, val) {print val[1]}') rounded_size=USD(((USDsize/USDMB + 1) * USDMB)) if [ USD((USDsize % USDMB)) -eq 0 ] then echo "Your image is already aligned. You do not need to resize." exit 1 fi echo "rounded size = USDrounded_size" export rounded_size
sh align.sh <image-xxx> .raw
qemu-img convert -f raw -o subformat=fixed,force_size -O vpc <image-xxx> .raw <image.xxx> .vhd
qemu-img resize -f raw <image-xxx> .raw <rounded-value>
qemu-img convert -f raw -o subformat=fixed,force_size -O vpc <image-xxx> .raw <image.xxx> .vhd
sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
sudo sh -c 'echo -e "[azure-cli]\nname=Azure CLI\nbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/azure-cli\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" > /etc/yum.repos.d/azure-cli.repo'
yum check-update
sudo yum install python3
sudo yum install -y azure-cli
az
az login
az group create --name <resource-group> --location <azure-region>
[clouduser@localhost]USD az group create --name azrhelclirsgrp --location southcentralus { "id": "/subscriptions//resourceGroups/azrhelclirsgrp", "location": "southcentralus", "managedBy": null, "name": "azrhelclirsgrp", "properties": { "provisioningState": "Succeeded" }, "tags": null }
az storage account create -l <azure-region> -n <storage-account-name> -g <resource-group> --sku <sku_type>
[clouduser@localhost]USD az storage account create -l southcentralus -n azrhelclistact -g azrhelclirsgrp --sku Standard_LRS { "accessTier": null, "creationTime": "2017-04-05T19:10:29.855470+00:00", "customDomain": null, "encryption": null, "id": "/subscriptions//resourceGroups/azrhelclirsgrp/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/azrhelclistact", "kind": "StorageV2", "lastGeoFailoverTime": null, "location": "southcentralus", "name": "azrhelclistact", "primaryEndpoints": { "blob": "https://azrhelclistact.blob.core.windows.net/", "file": "https://azrhelclistact.file.core.windows.net/", "queue": "https://azrhelclistact.queue.core.windows.net/", "table": "https://azrhelclistact.table.core.windows.net/" }, "primaryLocation": "southcentralus", "provisioningState": "Succeeded", "resourceGroup": "azrhelclirsgrp", "secondaryEndpoints": null, "secondaryLocation": null, "sku": { "name": "Standard_LRS", "tier": "Standard" }, "statusOfPrimary": "available", "statusOfSecondary": null, "tags": {}, "type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts" }
az storage account show-connection-string -n <storage-account-name> -g <resource-group>
[clouduser@localhost]USD az storage account show-connection-string -n azrhelclistact -g azrhelclirsgrp { "connectionString": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net;AccountName=azrhelclistact;AccountKey=NreGk...==" }
export AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING="<storage-connection-string>"
[clouduser@localhost]USD export AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net;AccountName=azrhelclistact;AccountKey=NreGk...=="
az storage container create -n <container-name>
[clouduser@localhost]USD az storage container create -n azrhelclistcont { "created": true }
az network vnet create -g <resource group> --name <vnet-name> --subnet-name <subnet-name>
[clouduser@localhost]USD az network vnet create --resource-group azrhelclirsgrp --name azrhelclivnet1 --subnet-name azrhelclisubnet1 { "newVNet": { "addressSpace": { "addressPrefixes": [ "10.0.0.0/16" ] }, "dhcpOptions": { "dnsServers": [] }, "etag": "W/\"\"", "id": "/subscriptions//resourceGroups/azrhelclirsgrp/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/azrhelclivnet1", "location": "southcentralus", "name": "azrhelclivnet1", "provisioningState": "Succeeded", "resourceGroup": "azrhelclirsgrp", "resourceGuid": "0f25efee-e2a6-4abe-a4e9-817061ee1e79", "subnets": [ { "addressPrefix": "10.0.0.0/24", "etag": "W/\"\"", "id": "/subscriptions//resourceGroups/azrhelclirsgrp/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/azrhelclivnet1/subnets/azrhelclisubnet1", "ipConfigurations": null, "name": "azrhelclisubnet1", "networkSecurityGroup": null, "provisioningState": "Succeeded", "resourceGroup": "azrhelclirsgrp", "resourceNavigationLinks": null, "routeTable": null } ], "tags": {}, "type": "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks", "virtualNetworkPeerings": null } }
az storage blob upload --account-name <storage-account-name> --container-name <container-name> --type page --file <path-to-vhd> --name <image-name>.vhd
[clouduser@localhost]USD az storage blob upload --account-name azrhelclistact --container-name azrhelclistcont --type page --file rhel-image-{ProductNumber}.vhd --name rhel-image-{ProductNumber}.vhd Percent complete: %100.0
az storage blob url -c <container-name> -n <image-name>.vhd
az storage blob url -c azrhelclistcont -n rhel-image-8.vhd "https://azrhelclistact.blob.core.windows.net/azrhelclistcont/rhel-image-8.vhd"
az image create -n <image-name> -g <resource-group> -l <azure-region> --source <URL> --os-type linux
az image create -n rhel8 -g azrhelclirsgrp2 -l southcentralus --source https://azrhelclistact.blob.core.windows.net/azrhelclistcont/rhel-image-8.vhd --os-type linux
az vm create -g <resource-group> -l <azure-region> -n <vm-name> --vnet-name <vnet-name> --subnet <subnet-name> --size Standard_A2 --os-disk-name <simple-name> --admin-username <administrator-name> --generate-ssh-keys --image <path-to-image>
[clouduser@localhost]USD az vm create -g azrhelclirsgrp2 -l southcentralus -n rhel-azure-vm-1 --vnet-name azrhelclivnet1 --subnet azrhelclisubnet1 --size Standard_A2 --os-disk-name vm-1-osdisk --admin-username clouduser --generate-ssh-keys --image rhel8 { "fqdns": "", "id": "/subscriptions//resourceGroups/azrhelclirsgrp/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/rhel-azure-vm-1", "location": "southcentralus", "macAddress": "", "powerState": "VM running", "privateIpAddress": "10.0.0.4", "publicIpAddress": " <public-IP-address> ", "resourceGroup": "azrhelclirsgrp2"
[clouduser@localhost]USD ssh -i /home/clouduser/.ssh/id_rsa clouduser@ <public-IP-address> . The authenticity of host ', <public-IP-address> ' can't be established. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added ' <public-IP-address> ' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. [clouduser@rhel-azure-vm-1 ~]USD
az vm create -g <resource-group> -l <azure-region> -n <vm-name> --vnet-name <vnet-name> --subnet <subnet-name> --size Standard_A2 --os-disk-name <simple-name> --authentication-type password --admin-username <administrator-name> --admin-password <ssh-password> --image <path-to-image>
ssh <admin-username> @ <public-ip-address>
az vm create -g <resource-group> -l <azure-region> -n <vm-name> --vnet-name <vnet-name> --subnet <subnet-name> --size Standard_A2 --os-disk-name <simple-name> --admin-username <administrator-name> --ssh-key-value <path-to-existing-ssh-key> --image <path-to-image>
ssh -i <path-to-existing-ssh-key> <admin-username> @ <public-ip-address>
subscription-manager register --auto-attach
insights-client register --display-name <display-name-value>
subscription-manager config --rhsmcertd.auto_registration=1
systemctl enable rhsmcertd.service
subscription-manager config --rhsm.manage_repos=0
subscription-manager identity system identity: fdc46662-c536-43fb-a18a-bbcb283102b7 name: 192.168.122.222 org name: 6340056 org ID: 6340056
dnf install kexec-tools
grep -v "#" /etc/kdump.conf path /var/crash core_collector makedumpfile -l --message-level 7 -d 31
sed s/"path /var/crash"/"path /mnt/crash"
vi /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty1 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0 rootdelay=300 crashkernel=512M"
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
systemctl status kdump ● kdump.service - Crash recovery kernel arming Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/kdump.service; enabled; vendor prese> Active: active (exited) since Fri 2024-02-09 10:50:18 CET; 1h 20min ago Process: 1252 ExecStart=/usr/bin/kdumpctl start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCES> Main PID: 1252 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 (limit: 16975) Memory: 512B CGroup: /system.slice/kdump.service