Chapter 4. Software requirements for NFV This section describes the supported configurations and drivers, and subscription details necessary for NFV. 4.1. Registering and enabling repositories To install Red Hat OpenStack Platform, you must register Red Hat OpenStack Platform director using the Red Hat Subscription Manager, and subscribe to the required channels. For more information about registering and updating your undercloud, see Registering the undercloud and attaching subscriptions in Installing and managing Red Hat OpenStack Platform with director . Procedure Register your system with the Content Delivery Network, entering your Customer Portal user name and password when prompted. Determine the entitlement pool ID for Red Hat OpenStack Platform director, for example {Pool ID} from the following command and output: Include the Pool ID value in the following command to attach the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 entitlement. Disable the default repositories. Enable the required repositories for Red Hat OpenStack Platform with NFV. Update your system so you have the latest base system packages. 4.2. Supported configurations for NFV deployments Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) supports the following NFV deployments using director: Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) For more information, see Configuring SR-IOV . Open vSwitch hardware offload For more information, see Configuring OVS hardware offload . Open vSwitch with Data Plane Development Kit (OVS-DPDK) For more information, see Configuring an OVS-DPDK deployment . Additionally, you can deploy RHOSP with any of the following features: Implementing composable services and custom roles. For more information, see Composable services and custom roles in the Customizing your Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment guide. Colocating Compute and Ceph Storage service on the same host. For more information, see Deploying a hyperconverged infrastructure . Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time KVM (RT-KVM). For more information, see Enabling RT-KVM for NFV Workloads . 4.3. Supported drivers for NFV For a complete list of supported drivers, see Component, Plug-In, and Driver Support in Red Hat OpenStack Platform . For a list of NICs tested for Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployments with NFV, see Tested NICs for NFV . 4.4. Compatibility with third-party software For a complete list of products and services tested, supported, and certified to perform with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, see Third Party Software compatible with Red Hat OpenStack Platform . You can filter the list by product version and software category. For a complete list of products and services tested, supported, and certified to perform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, see Third Party Software compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux . You can filter the list by product version and software category.

Commands:
[stack@director ~]USD sudo subscription-manager register
[stack@director ~]USD sudo subscription-manager list --available --all --matches="Red Hat OpenStack" Subscription Name: Name of SKU Provides: Red Hat Single Sign-On Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Red Hat CloudForms Red Hat OpenStack Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) SKU: SKU-Number Contract: Contract-Number Pool ID: {Pool-ID}-123456 Provides Management: Yes Available: 1 Suggested: 1 Service Level: Support-level Service Type: Service-Type Subscription Type: Sub-type Ends: End-date System Type: Physical
[stack@director ~]USD sudo subscription-manager attach --pool={Pool-ID}-123456
subscription-manager repos --disable=*
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-eus-rpms --enable=rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms --enable=rhel-9-for-x86_64-highavailability-eus-rpms --enable=ansible-2.9-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms --enable=openstack-17.1-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms --enable=rhel-9-for-x86_64-nfv-rpms --enable=fast-datapath-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
[stack@director ~]USD sudo dnf update -y [stack@director ~]USD sudo reboot