[ovirt-users] How can I let others safely manage there own virtual machine

[andy.michielsen at gmail.com]

Hello Dave, Oved, Gilad,

Thank you very much. This is very usefull.

Kind regards.

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> On 25 Jun 2014, at 17:19, Gilad Chaplik <gchaplik at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
>> To: "Andy Michielsen" <andy.michielsen at gmail.com>, users at 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.
>> 
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