Login
-----
-[thumbnail="gui-login-window.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-login-window.png"]
-When you connect to the server, you will first see the longin window.
+When you connect to the server, you will first see the login window.
{pve} supports various authentication backends ('Realm'), and
-you can select the langauage here. The GUI is translated to more
+you can select the language here. The GUI is translated to more
than 20 languages.
NOTE: You can save the user name on the client side by selection the
GUI Overview
------------
-[thumbnail="gui-datacenter-summary.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-datacenter-summary.png"]
The {pve} user interface consists of four regions.
containers, nodes, ...). This is sometimes faster than selecting an
object in the resource tree.
-[thumbnail="gui-my-settings.png"]
-
To the right of the search bar we see the identity (login name). The
gear symbol is a button opening the 'My Settings' dialog. There you
can customize some client side user interface setting (reset the saved
The rightmost part of the header contains four buttons:
[horizontal]
-Help :: Opens a new browser window showing the reference documenation.
+Help :: Opens a new browser window showing the reference documentation.
Create VM :: Opens the virtual machine creation wizard.
Logout :: Logout, and show the login dialog again.
+[[gui_my_settings]]
+My Settings
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-my-settings.png"]
+
+The 'My Settings' window allows you to set locally stored settings. These
+include the 'Dashboard Storages' which allow you to enable or disable specific
+storages to be counted towards the total amount visible in the datacenter
+summary. If no storage is checked the total is the sum of all storages, same
+as enabling every single one.
+
+Below the dashboard settings you find the stored user name and a button to
+clear it as well as a button to reset every layout in the GUI to its default.
+
+On the right side there are 'xterm.js Settings'. These contain the following
+options:
+
+[horizontal]
+Font-Family :: The font to be used in xterm.js (e.g. Arial).
+
+Font-Size :: The preferred font size to be used.
+
+Letter Spacing :: Increases or decreases spacing between letters in text.
+
+Line Height :: Specify the absolute height of a line.
+
+
+
Resource Tree
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
object displays configuration and status information in the content
panel. The following sections give a brief overview of the
functionality. Please refer to the individual chapters inside the
-reference documentatin to get more detailed information.
+reference documentation to get more detailed information.
Datacenter
~~~~~~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-datacenter-search.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-datacenter-search.png"]
On the datacenter level you can access cluster wide settings and information.
* *Summary:* gives a brief overview over the cluster health.
+* *Cluster:* allows to create/join cluster and shows join information.
+
* *Options:* can show and set defaults, which apply cluster wide.
* *Storage:* is the place where a storage will add/managed/removed.
cluster wide, so you do not care about where the VM/Container are on
your cluster at schedule time.
+* *Replication:* shows replication jobs and allows to create new ones.
+
* *Permissions:* will manage user and group permission, LDAP,
MS-AD and Two-Factor authentication can be setup here.
Nodes
~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-node-summary.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-node-summary.png"]
-All belongs of a node can be managed at this level.
+Nodes in your cluster can be managed invidiually at this level.
+
+The top header has useful buttons such as 'Reboot', 'Shutdown', 'Shell',
+'Bulk Actions' and 'Help'.
+'Shell' has the options 'noVNC', 'SPICE' and 'xterm.js'.
+'Bulk Actions' has the options 'Bulk Start', 'Bulk Stop' and 'Bulk Migrate'.
* *Search:* it is possible to search anything on the node,
this can be a VM, Container, Storage or a pool.
* *Summary:* gives a brief overview over the resource usage.
-* *Shell:* log you in the shell of the node.
+* *Notes:* is where custom notes about a node can be written.
+
+* *Shell:* logs you into the shell of the node.
-* *System:* is for configuring the network, dns and time, and also shows your syslog.
+* *System:* is for configuring the network, DNS and time, and also shows your syslog.
-* *Updates:* will upgrade the system and informs you about new packets.
+* *Updates:* will upgrade the system and inform you about new packages.
* *Firewall:* on this level is only for this node.
-* *Disk:* gives you an brief overview about you physical hard drives and
+* *Disks:* gives you a brief overview about you physical hard drives and
how they are used.
-* *Ceph:* is only used if you have installed a Ceph sever on you
+* *Ceph:* is only used if you have installed a Ceph server on your
host. Then you can manage your Ceph cluster and see the status
of it here.
-* *Task History:* here all past task are shown.
+* *Replication:* shows replication jobs and allows to create new ones.
+
+* *Task History:* here all past tasks are shown.
* *Subscription:* here you can upload you subscription key and get a
system overview in case of a support case.
Guests
~~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-qemu-summary.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-qemu-summary.png"]
-There are two differed kinds of VM types and both types can be converted to a template.
-One of them are Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and the other one are Linux Containers (LXC).
-General the navigation are the same only some option are different.
+There are two different kinds of guests and both can be converted to a template.
+One of them is a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and the other one a Linux Container (LXC).
+Generally the navigation is the same, only some options are different.
-In the main management center the VM navigation begin if a VM is selected in the left tree.
+In the main management center the VM navigation begins if a VM is selected in the left tree.
-The top header contains important VM operation commands like 'Start', 'Shutdown', 'Rest',
+The top header contains important VM operation commands like 'Start', 'Shutdown', 'Reset',
'Remove', 'Migrate', 'Console' and 'Help'.
-Two of them have hidden buttons like 'Shutdown' has 'Stop' and
-'Console' contains the different consolen typs 'SPICE' or 'noVNC'.
+Some of them have hidden buttons like 'Shutdown' has 'Stop' and
+'Console' contains the different console types 'SPICE', 'noVNC' and 'xterm.js'.
-On the right side the content switch white the focus of the option.
+On the right side the content switches depending on the selected option.
On the left side.
All available options are listed one below the other.
* *(LXC)DNS:* the LXC DNS settings.
-* *Options:* all VM options can be set here, this distinguishes between KVM and LXC.
+* *Options:* all guest options can be set here.
-* *Task History:* here all previous task from this VM will be shown.
+* *Task History:* here all previous tasks from the selected guest will be shown.
* *(KVM) Monitor:* is the interactive communication interface to the KVM process.
-* *Backup:* shows the available backups from this VM and also create a backupset.
+* *Backup:* shows the available backups from the selected guest and also create a backupset.
+
+* *Replication:* shows the replication jobs for the selected guest and allows to create new jobs.
* *Snapshots:* manage VM snapshots.
* *Firewall:* manage the firewall on VM level.
-* *Permissions:* manage the user permission for this VM.
+* *Permissions:* manage the user permission for the selected guest.
Storage
~~~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-storage-summary-local.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-storage-summary-local.png"]
-In this view we have a two partition split view.
+In this view we have a two partition split-view.
On the left side we have the storage options
-and on the right side the content of the selected option will shown.
+and on the right side the content of the selected option will be shown.
-* *Summary:* show you important information about your storage like
+* *Summary:* shows important information about storages like
'Usage', 'Type', 'Content', 'Active' and 'Enabled'.
-* *Content:* Here all contend will listed grouped by content.
+* *Content:* Here all content will be listed grouped by content type.
* *Permissions:* manage the user permission for this storage.
Pools
~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-pool-summary-development.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-pool-summary-development.png"]
In this view we have a two partition split view.
On the left side we have the logical pool options
-and on the right side the content of the selected option will shown.
+and on the right side the content of the selected option will be shown.
* *Summary:* show the description of the pool.
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