CloudStack Management Server (Standalone)

Prepare the Operating System

The OS must be prepared to host the Management Server using the following steps. These steps must be performed on each Management Server node.

Log in to your OS as root.
Check for a fully qualified hostname.
```
hostname --fqdn
```
This should return a fully qualified hostname such as “management1.lab.example.org”. If it does not, edit /etc/hosts so that it does.
Make sure that the machine can reach the Internet.
```
ping cloudstack.apache.org
```
Turn on NTP for time synchronization.

Note

An NTP daemon is required to synchronize the clocks of the servers in your cloud.

Install chrony.

In RHEL or CentOS:
```
$ yum install chrony
```
n RHEL or CentOS:

Yum repository information is found under /etc/yum.repos.d. You’ll see several .repo files in this directory, each one denoting a specific repository.

To add the CloudStack repository, create /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudstack.repo and insert the following information.

In the case of RHEL being used, you can replace ‘centos’ by ‘rhel’ in the value of baseurl
```
[cloudstack]
name=cloudstack
baseurl=http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/$releasever/4.21/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
```
Now update your local apt cache.
```
sudo apt update
```
Your DEB package repository should now be configured and ready for use.
Install on CentOS/RHEL
```
yum install cloudstack-management
```
Step #2: Install MariaDB

AlmaLinux 9 provides a MariaDB package directly in its official repositories. To install the MariaDB server with all necessary dependencies, execute the following command:

# sudo dnf install mariadb-server -y