ADMINISTRATOR'S MANUAL
SimpleVM 10.1 Documentation
The complete administrator’s manual for SimpleVM 10.1 — installation, day-to-day operations, storage, networking, security, clustering, and troubleshooting. Every procedure follows the same shape: overview, prerequisites, steps, verification.
Orientation
What SimpleVM is, and the fastest path to a first virtual machine.
Preface
This Preface describes the purpose and scope of this documentation, the readers it is written for, the typographical and command-syntax conventions it uses…
01Introduction to SimpleVM
SimpleVM User and Administrator Guide…
02Getting Started
SimpleVM installs as a ready-to-use virtualization environment, so the work after installation is mainly confirming that the host is reachable and healthy …
Planning & Installation
Size the host, install SimpleVM, and make it production-ready.
System Requirements and Planning
SimpleVM installs as a ready-to-use virtualization environment, but the quality of a deployment still depends on the hardware and network it runs on. Plann…
04Installing SimpleVM
SimpleVM is distributed as a custom ISO installer based on Rocky Linux 10.1. The installer deploys a minimal, security-hardened host with all required virt…
05Post-Installation Configuration
Post-installation configuration is the bridge between installing SimpleVM and operating it. The goal is not to rebuild the platform — the installer already…
The Management Interface
Reach the web console and read the host at a glance.
Accessing the SimpleVM Management Interface
The SimpleVM management interface is the web console where you do almost all of your administration: monitoring host health, creating and managing virtual …
07Understanding the Dashboard and Host Overview
The host Overview page is the first thing SimpleVM shows you after you sign in, and it is the right place to start almost any administrative session. In a …
Virtual Machines
Create, configure, and operate VMs — disks, NICs, and snapshots.
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
This chapter explains how to create, view, start, stop, access, change, and remove virtual machines from the SimpleVM management interface. A virtual machi…
09Managing VM Disks
This chapter explains how to manage the virtual disks attached to a virtual machine, and how to think about host device assignment. A virtual disk is the s…
10Managing VM Network Interfaces
This chapter explains how to manage the virtual network interfaces attached to a virtual machine. A virtual network interface is the adapter a VM presents …
11VM Snapshots
This chapter explains how to protect a virtual machine with a snapshot before a planned change, how to return the VM to a saved point if the change does no…
Storage
Storage pools, host disks, and how VM storage is laid out.
Managing Storage Pools
This chapter explains how to work with storage pools — the layer that makes prepared host storage available to SimpleVM for virtual machine disks, installa…
13Managing Host Storage
This chapter explains how to work with host storage — the physical and operating-system-level storage that supports the SimpleVM host itself. Host storage …
Networking
Virtual networks for VMs and the host's own interfaces.
Managing Virtual Networks
This chapter explains how to manage SimpleVM virtual networks — the network paths the SimpleVM host provides to virtual machines. A virtual network sits be…
15Managing Host Networking
This chapter explains how to view and manage networking on the SimpleVM host itself — the physical interfaces the host uses to reach the network, the IP ad…
Security & Administration
Firewall, accounts, updates, and the host administration tools.
Firewall and Security Settings
SimpleVM includes a host firewall and a layered security model that together control how the SimpleVM host communicates with the management network, virtua…
17User Access and Administrative Tasks
SimpleVM controls access to the host and to the management interface through host user accounts — the same accounts that exist on the underlying operating …
18Software Updates
SimpleVM is built on an enterprise Linux base, and like any host it needs periodic software updates to stay secure, stable, and compatible with the virtual…
19Host Administration Tools
Most day-to-day administration in SimpleVM happens on the dedicated pages for virtual machines, storage, networking, and the firewall. Two tools sit alongs…
Protection & Mobility
Backups, VM migration, and clustered high availability.
Backup and Recovery
Backup and recovery planning protects virtual machines, host configuration, and business data from accidental deletion, a failed update, storage failure, r…
21VM Migration
VM migration moves a virtual machine from one SimpleVM host to another. You migrate a workload to perform host maintenance, balance load across hosts, repl…
22Configuring Host Clusters for Live VM Migration and High Availability
A SimpleVM host cluster is two or more SimpleVM hosts prepared to work together as one virtualization environment. Clustering lets you move a running workl…
Operations & Reference
Monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, and the CLI reference.
Monitoring Your SimpleVM Host
Monitoring a SimpleVM host means watching the host and its virtual machines closely enough to notice when something is drifting away from normal — ideally …
24Performance Tuning and Optimization
Performance tuning is the discipline of changing one thing, measuring whether it helped, and being ready to undo it. On a SimpleVM host this matters more t…
25Troubleshooting
Part XII — Troubleshooting…
26Advanced Administration and Command-Line Reference
Part XIII — Advanced Administration and Reference…