How to register and subscribe Resilient Storage.

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

How do I install the add-on Resilient Storage to a server?

Resolution

1 . Please confirm you've already subscribed to the RHEL subscription of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux". 

# subscription-manager list --consumed

If you've not done it yet, please subscribe to it.

e.g. (If you want to automatically subscribe in one step, pleas use the following command)

# subscription-manager register --auto-attach
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
Username: xxxxx
Password: 
The system has been registered with ID: 5a4906f0-6a61-44a4-b628-e35840a4844d
The registered system name is: rhel84
Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Status:       Subscribed

If you know more details about Subscription Manager, please see here.

2 . Please check if there is a Resilient Storage subscription and confirm the pool ID

# subscription-manager list --available
+-------------------------------------------+
    Available Subscriptions
+-------------------------------------------+
Subscription Name:   Resilient Storage
Provides:            Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64
                     Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64
SKU:                 RH00026
Contract:            12707511
Pool ID:             8a85f99b799092350179ef8832ea0201  <-------------------------
Provides Management: No
Available:           2
Suggested:           1
Service Type:        L1-L3
Roles:               
Service Level:       Layered
Usage:               Production
Add-ons:             
Subscription Type:   Instance Based
Starts:              07/04/20
Ends:                07/04/21
Entitlement Type:    Physical

3 . Please subscribe the Resilient Storage subscription with the pool ID.

# subscription-manager subscribe --pool 8a85f99c7990923e0179ef8aedbd606a
Successfully attached a subscription for: Resilient Storage

4 . Please enable Resilient Storage repository.

RHEL7

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
Repository 'rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rpms' is enabled for this system.

RHEL8

# subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-resilientstorage-rpms
Repository 'rhel-8-for-x86_64-resilientstorage-rpms' is enabled for this system.

5 . Please check if the new repository is available.

RHEL7

# yum repolist enabled
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id
repo id                                                                   repo name                                                                                          status
rhel-7-server-rpms/7Server/x86_64                                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server
rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rpms/7Server/x86_64                             Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL 7 Server)
:

RHEL8

# yum repolist enabled
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
repo id                                                  repo name
rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs)
rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms                            Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)
rhel-8-for-x86_64-resilientstorage-rpms                  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - Resilient Storage (RPMs)

6 . If you want to install the group packages of Resilient Storage here, please run the following command.

   $ yum groupinstall "Resilient Storage"
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