Login
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+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-login-window.png"]
When you connect to the server, you will first see the login window.
{pve} supports various authentication backends ('Realm'), and
GUI Overview
------------
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+[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.
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-
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
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Datacenter
~~~~~~~~~~
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+[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
~~~~~
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+[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
~~~~~~
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+[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', 'Reset',
'Remove', 'Migrate', 'Console' and 'Help'.
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
~~~~~~~
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+[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
~~~~~
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+[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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