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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Latcho,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am glad you are also mentioning this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I moved forward with my 4.2 setup and discovered following possibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">To what Michal suggested (although its not an access I would like to give to regular users), its possible to create an Admin role allowing management/provisioning of only
VMs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Users will be able to login to admin portal, see all the settings, be unable to change anything in the setup, except managing VMs and provisioning them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It’s a risk for a Hosted_Engine to be deleted by someone not being careful – I am still about to investigate if I can protect it by an Affinity setting or create special
permission jut for the Hosted_Engine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">About VM Portal: we for now have to rely on templates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The only way for users to spawn VMs from VM Portal is to have required templates created ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The hostname field will be used by cloud-init to create a hostname and that is the only things besides cpu and ram that you can edit from VM Portal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Use of APIs and or Ansible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It would we very nice to have more ability on VM management from VM Portal, so that no End Users are allowed to Admin Portal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am aware it’s not a complete or most accurate answer to your question, but I hope it does bring some clarity to current situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Marko Vrgotic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">System Engineer/Customer Care<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">ActiveVideo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Latchezar Filtchev <Latcho@aubg.bg><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 16:44<br>
<b>To: </b>Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek@redhat.com>, "Vrgotic, Marko" <M.Vrgotic@activevideo.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"users@ovirt.org" <users@ovirt.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: [ovirt-users] 4.2.0 Unable to create VM disk from VM Portal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dear Michal,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Please clarify ‘</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Perhaps you can use webadmin and limit user’s permissions the way you need’. Clean oVirt 4.2 installation have only admin user.
Or I am wrong? What type of user is webadmin you are talking about?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thank you!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Latcho</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> users-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Michal Skrivanek<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 29, 2017 9:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Vrgotic, Marko<br>
<b>Cc:</b> users@ovirt.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] 4.2.0 Unable to create VM disk from VM Portal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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On 29 Dec 2017, at 16:20, Vrgotic, Marko <<a href="mailto:M.Vrgotic@activevideo.com">M.Vrgotic@activevideo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear oVirt community,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have following setup:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">4 servers as glusterfs storage: providing volume 1 for HostedEngine ad volume 2 for VM Storage</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">7 Hypervisors </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SelfHosted Engine 4.2.0 clean install (not an upgrade)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Problem:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Missing option to add/create VM disk from VM Portal / even as Admin user.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">there is no disk manipulation in VM Portal</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have tried with Admin suer and creating user “Test” wth PowerUser role.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In both cases there is not option to create or attach disk.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is the approach changed since 4.2.0?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Yes. The old User Portal where it was possible to fully edit a VM was discontinued in 4.2. The new VM Portal doesn’t have that capability yet</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Perhaps you can use webadmin and limit user’s permissions the way you need</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">michal<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Am I missing a setting?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please let me know, I will provide more data if needed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kindly awaiting your reply.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">--</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Marko Vrgotic</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">System Engineer/Customer Care</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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