[Users] [RFI] GUI Changes for oVirt 4.0
Hi, we are brainstorming on what should we change in the oVirt UI for 4.0. for current brainstorming phase, "anything goes" - i.e., I'd like us to ignore current limitations and flows, and envision/fantasize the "perfect solution". SO - what do YOU think we should consider for 4.0 UI concept, flows, etc. Thanks, Itamar
Hi, well basically the left pane, where I have to click through "system->DC->etc" is plain useless to me. I always go via the top tabs and then select the sub entity I want to have. So there are to many ways you can configure the same setting. Example: Adding a logical network You can click: "System->Your_DC->Networks->...wait..for..loading..->New" or "System" then click the "Networks" tab (you have no long loading animation! :) ) -> "New" (now you have of course to select the correct DC). the latter is faster. So I would omit this whole tree style stuff and just kick it out. It's not fast, and you often have to click through the tree so I use just "System" selected in the tree and then select the tabs I want. Additional confusion: When you did not select "system" and then want to use the main tabs, you get just displayed what is appropriate for the sub-tree of "system".. It's just plain useless duplication of functionality imho. Am 18.03.2014 11:29, schrieb Itamar Heim:
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:47:16 +0000 Sven Kieske <S.Kieske@mittwald.de> wrote:
So there are to many ways you can configure the same setting.
100% agree, duplicity between the tree and main tabs is crazy. If I could wish anything, I would keep the tree but I would make it more nice and clever - one tree for physical schema, another one for virtual schema (minic tagging, creating "groups" for related things). Plus I would like to have right pane to show me quickly general overview about things selected in left tree (example: If I would be in a virtual folder called 'webapp' consisting of couple of related VMs, I would love to see in right pane the list of VMs, graphs about CPU usage, network usage, storage usage...; more details about the objects could be implemented in some "tab" inside right pane - example: default right pane would display info as written above, but details about CPU, storage would be in separate tabs...). However, bad decision would be like nightmare for ages, one likes main tabs, another one likes the tree :) j.
Am 18.03.2014 14:31, schrieb Jiri Belka:
100% agree, duplicity between the tree and main tabs is crazy.
Well I would also use the tree if it is fast enough. Just don't duplicate logic if not necessary, as it's just confusing even experienced users. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
On 18/03/14 07:47, Sven Kieske wrote:
I agree, the plenty of tabs at any level is confusing. Also would be nice to add views to left panel: VM's view, Storage View, network view. I think that the left panel should be more clear or to have a option to filter the stuff that it displays
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I'd love to see this in the UI: - auto-refreshed screenshots from the VMs consoles. - some improved tagging/grouping - customizable columns with sorting/filtering (tags ?) - cpu/disk/net utilization column like virt-manger has them - embedded serial console - disk operations and migration status with progress bar and ETA. - console access from client->engine->host. Most of the time we do not have direct access to the hosts. - ability to define exclude entities ( aka these 2 vms may never run on the same storage and host ) -- Ernest Beinrohr, AXON PRO Ing <http://www.beinrohr.sk/ing.php>, RHCE <http://www.beinrohr.sk/rhce.php>, RHCVA <http://www.beinrohr.sk/rhce.php>, LPIC <http://www.beinrohr.sk/lpic.php>, VCA <http://www.beinrohr.sk/vca.php>, +421-2--6241-0360 <callto://+421-2--6241-0360>, +421-903--482-603 <callto://+421-903--482-603> icq:28153343, gtalk: oernii@axonpro.sk, jabber:oernii@jabber.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman --------------020803020100000709030008 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dňa 18.03.2014 11:29, Itamar Heim wrote / napísal(a):<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:53282006.9030804@redhat.com" type="cite">Hi, <br> <br> we are brainstorming on what should we change in the oVirt UI for 4.0. <br> for current brainstorming phase, "anything goes" - i.e., I'd like us to ignore current limitations and flows, and envision/fantasize the "perfect solution". <br> <br> SO - what do YOU think we should consider for 4.0 UI concept, flows, etc. <br> </blockquote> <br> I'd love to see this in the UI:<br> <br> - auto-refreshed screenshots from the VMs consoles. <br> - some improved tagging/grouping<br> - customizable columns with sorting/filtering (tags ?)<br> - cpu/disk/net utilization column like virt-manger has them<br> - embedded serial console<br> - disk operations and migration status with progress bar and ETA.<br> - console access from client->engine->host. Most of the time we do not have direct access to the hosts.<br> - ability to define exclude entities ( aka these 2 vms may never run on the same storage and host )<br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <div id="oernii_footer" style="color: gray;"> <span style="font-family: Lucida Console, Luxi Mono, Courier, monospace; font-size: 90%;"> Ernest Beinrohr, AXON PRO<br> <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="http://www.beinrohr.sk/ing.php">Ing</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="http://www.beinrohr.sk/rhce.php">RHCE</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="http://www.beinrohr.sk/rhce.php">RHCVA</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="http://www.beinrohr.sk/lpic.php">LPIC</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="http://www.beinrohr.sk/vca.php">VCA</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="callto://+421-2--6241-0360">+421-2--6241-0360</a>, <a style="text-decoration: none; color: gray;" href="callto://+421-903--482-603">+421-903--482-603</a><br> icq:28153343, gtalk: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:oernii@axonpro.sk">oernii@axonpro.sk</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jabber:oernii@jabber.org">jabber:oernii@jabber.org</a> <br> </span> <hr style="height: 1px; width: 95%"> <span style="font-size: 70%;"> “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” Richard Feynman </span> </div> </div> <img src="http://nojsstats.appspot.com/UA-44497096-1/email.beinrohr.sk" moz-do-not-send="true" border="0" width="1" height="1"> </body> </html> --------------020803020100000709030008--
Well I'd have some privacy concerns regarding this feature.. it might not even be useful if users are logged in via ssh /different ttys etc. Am 18.03.2014 15:12, schrieb Ernest Beinrohr:
- auto-refreshed screenshots from the VMs consoles.
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On 03/18/2014 03:12 PM, Ernest Beinrohr wrote:
Anything goes is great - so here's what came in mind :) I would love to be able to use drag and drop in the gui. E.g. Drag and drop an vm selected in Virtual Machines tab to an host in the left system navigation menu. Or drag and drop it on Templates tab and the New Template window appears. It would be cool if help would be available. When I installed oVirt 3.4 I discovered a subtab "Affinity Groups" for my vms and I had no clue what I could do with this feature. So I visited oVirt wiki and searched for "Affinity Groups" and now I know what this is all about. But if a small "?" button would be available in the right upper corner of this tab explaining this feature in 1-2 sentences and giving a link to a detailed documentation page would help for non-experienced users/admins (online in oVirt wiki or offline shipped with oVirt). Furthermore I would love to be able to use ui plugins for User portal as well... What about a tab Logs where I could access engine.log file? At the moment I have to switch to console to be able to get more detailed information about an error and use search bar to find the corresponding line.
What about adding the possibility to create a tab out of a bookmark? I'm thinking of the following: Add a bookmark which displays all VMs belonging to Datacenter A and a bookmark which displays all VMs belonging to Datacenter B. So for me it would be cool if I would have a new main tab "VMs in DC A" and "VMs in DC B" - so I don't have to switch from System menu to Bookmarks menu, but can customize main tabs to best fit into my environment.
- customizable columns with sorting/filtering (tags ?)
This would be cool. I would love to be able to sort or enable/disable certain columns. E.g. FQDN column is pretty useless for me as the vm name already contains the FQDN in my setup. It would be cool if it would be possible for each user to create his view and have this saved.
- cpu/disk/net utilization column like virt-manger has them
It would be great if I could add columns using ui plugins. So e.g. I remove FQDN, Display, Status columns, but add my custom one with the monitoring status or I can add my custom graphs based on my monitoring system (or whatever) in addition or instead of the defined CPU/Memory/Network columns...
- embedded serial console - disk operations and migration status with progress bar and ETA.
Vote for this as well.
On 3/18/2014 6:29 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
I would like one place that I can go and see the health of my system. Right now I am running a cluster in test mode, and I have to look at several places before I have confidence that all is well: Data Center Storage (I am using gluster) Hosts VMs The natural place for me to look would seem to be the left bar. If the icons there had a color change to reflect status, I could just hit "Expand All" and the color would immediately tell me the system status. Same icons would work, with just a background or little square of color. I realize that my little 3-host system is the exception, because (so far) I can hit "Expand all" and I can still see the whole thing. I will not have to deploy many more VMs before it will not all fit. There may be a better way to do this, e.g. another choice between "Expand all" and "Collapse All" that would expand all except the lowest level. It would then show me categories like "Storage", "Networks", "Hosts", "Volumes" and "VMs" with a health color indication for each cluster. If I see anything I am not expecting, I can expand that heading and see the status of the individual items. There may be a better way to do this, but I know that it is somewhat frustrating to check first thing in the morning and have to do some many clicks before I have confidence that nothing bad happened overnight. I have actually found it faster to click on the "Events" tab and see if there are any nasty messages there, rather than checking current status. I look forward to the insights of others as to how they monitor cluster status. Ted Miller Elkhart, IN, USA
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Ted Miller