[Ovirt-devel] Questions on the Server Suite UI

[Bryan Kearney]

Scott Seago wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Below are a couple of functional question on the UI having installed 
>> it, and reviewed version .6 of the docs. I realize the answer may be 
>> "in an upcoming release", but I wanted to at least throw it out:
>>
>>
>> 1) Can I set quotas at the VM pool level, or are they only inherited 
>> from the hardware pool?
> Yes -- in fact the VM pool is the primary usage of quotas. At the 
> hardware pool level, quotas are only meaningful as 'default' values 
> inherited by VM pools that don't specify quotas.

Ok.. my version does not have the ability to edit. Is that a bug or a 
"to be added" feature?
>> 2) Are there plans to support moving vm pools between hardware pools?
> Not at the moment.
>> 3) Can I move a storage server from one pool to another if it is being 
>> used? If not, where do I see the information about where it is being 
>> used?
> Right now we don't have validation in the UI to prevent this, but this 
> validation must be put in -- otherwise you'll end up with VMs that are 
> attached to storage that they shouldn't have access to.
> In addition we don't show this anywhere in the UI now, but we do need to 
> show what storage a VM currently uses, and what VM a storage volume is 
> currently attached to in their respective details panes.

Make sense.

>> 4) In the appliance setup, is there a ui path to add users to LDAP?
> As far as I know the only way to do this is via the IPA web UI or other 
> IPA APIs. Although we are creating the ovirtadmin user, so it probably 
> wouldn't be hard to use whatever API this uses to include other users as 
> well.

On the appliance, is the LDAP UI exposed some place?

>> 5) In the docs it says that a user is defined at the Hardware / VM 
>> pool level and can not be moved. But, I assume that a person can have 
>> access to many hardware or VM pools. Is that accurate?
> Sounds like the wording is a bit off there. Here's what's going on:
> 1) users aren't created in the ovirt WUI but in IPA
> 2) for any hardware or VM pool, users can be granted access 
> (user/admin/etc)
> 3) when a user has access to a  pool, he can access that pool and any 
> pool below it (i.e. if a user can access a HW pool, that user can access 
> all sub-HW pools and VM pools within it -- the admin user who can access 
> the 'default' pool at top can access all pools
> 4) there are no limits on how many pools a user can be granted access to
> 5) but no, there isn't a way to transfer a user permission to another 
> pool, since all that would mean would be that you're granting access in 
> one place and revoking it elsewhere.

Ok.. that make sense. I did not read the doco that way.

>> 6) What is a SmartPool?
>>
> It's just a fancy way of referring to tagging. I didn't come up with the 
> name :-)
> 
> But anyway basically a user can create a smart pool and "add" (i.e. tag) 
> any number of hosts, vms, HW/VM pools, storage pools to it -- and these 
> items will all show up together on that smart pool's page -- eventually 
> with nice summary graphs too.
> 
> But adding something to a smart pool doesn't change the underlying 
> pool/permissions/access/etc -- it really is just tagging.

I will keep playing with it.


>>
>> Couple of UI RFEs:
>> - Given the richness of the UI, I keep expecting a right click context 
>> menu. Especially in the tree nav.
>> - When creating a VM, a refresh button would be nice. Unless you have 
>> push to the client.
>>
> Yes, certainly on the latter point we've discussed it -- we do want some 
> form of client push eventually, but in the interim some sort of 'refresh 
> this view/tab/details pane/etc' action would be useful.
>>
>> -- bk
>>
>>
> Scott
> 
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