Hello, I'm new to this so I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips. I work for a company and we deploy software which needs to work together with other software, domain policies, proxy, etc. For this we often set up a new virtual machine to simulate potential problems and give us the opportunity to investigate. So I was wondering how do I best go about doing this and give multiple users the ability to create new machines from templates but put restrictions on how many vm's they can create, the disk space they use and the network bandwidth they use. If there is a way to also limit in time how long the created vm's can exist would also be very interesting. Kind regards.

I work for a company and we deploy software which needs to work together with other software, domain policies, proxy, etc. For this we often set up a new virtual machine to simulate potential problems and give us the opportunity to investigate. So I was wondering how do I best go about doing this and give multiple users the ability to create new machines from templates but put restrictions on how many vm's they can create, the disk space they use and the network bandwidth they use. If there is a way to also limit in time how long the created vm's can exist would also be very interesting.

On 25 Jun 2014, at 17:19, Gilad Chaplik <gchaplik(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Neary" <dneary(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Andy Michielsen" <andy.michielsen(a)gmail.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 1:24:00 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] How can I let others safely manage there own virtual machine > > Hi Andy, > >> On 06/25/2014 08:31 AM, Andy Michielsen wrote: >> I work for a company and we deploy software which needs to work together >> with other software, domain policies, proxy, etc. >> >> For this we often set up a new virtual machine to simulate potential >> problems and give us the opportunity to investigate. >> >> So I was wondering how do I best go about doing this and give multiple >> users the ability to create new machines from templates but put >> restrictions on how many vm's they can create, the disk space they use >> and the network bandwidth they use. >> >> If there is a way to also limit in time how long the created vm's can >> exist would also be very interesting. > > It sounds like you need the oVirt user portal. You can get more > information about defining permissions & user profiles, and accessing > the user portal, in the quick start guide (starting at the "Using > virtual machines" section): > http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide#Using_Virtual_Machines > > There's a video here for defining quotas with the user quota: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zazJ_fW05Qk Thanks Dave and Oved, that's exactly my thoughts :-) Adding 2 more videos from that series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExFWEojF4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qUoRImimY Quota feature didn't change much since 3.1, only got stable, so no worries about version in the videos. Andy, if you any questions/suggestions, feel free :-) Since there are already 3 videos, and the fact we have a new l&f in 3.5, thinking of doing a new series (following 'Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' ;-) ). > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact > Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com > Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >