Virtual Host Managers

Virtual Host Managers (VHMs) are used to gather information from a range of client types.

VHMs can be used to collect private or public cloud instances and organize them into virtualization groups. With your virtualized clients organized this way, Taskomatic collects data on the clients for display in the Uyuni Web UI. VHMs also allow you to use subscription matching on your virtualized clients.

You can create a VHM on your Uyuni Server, and use it to inventory available public cloud instances. You can also use a VHM to manage clusters created with Kubernetes.

1. Direct Hypervisor Querying

Registered physical Linux clients acting as hypervisors (such as KVM) do not require a Virtual Host Manager (VHM) configuration. Instead, if a registered physical host has the Virtualization Host add-on system type assigned, Uyuni queries the system directly using libvirt to gather virtual machine data.

For more information, see System Types.