Login
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-[thumbnail="gui-login-window.png"]
+[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
------------
-[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
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
~~~~~~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-datacenter-search.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-datacenter-search.png"]
On the datacenter level you can access cluster wide settings and information.
Nodes
~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-node-summary.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-node-summary.png"]
All belongs of a node can be managed at this level.
* *Disk:* gives you an 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.
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.
+General the navigation are 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.
Storage
~~~~~~~
-[thumbnail="gui-storage-summary-local.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-storage-summary-local.png"]
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 you important information about your storage like
'Usage', 'Type', 'Content', 'Active' and 'Enabled'.
-* *Content:* Here all contend will listed grouped by content.
+* *Content:* Here all content will 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.