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    • nikadeN Offline
      nikade Top contributor @DustinB
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      I think the problem is that as soon as a host is a member of the pool everything created "belongs" to the pool and not the host.
      You'd have to setup a standalone host to be able to achieve what you want since that "single" host would create its own "pool" where itself is the only member.

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        DustinB @nikade
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        @nikade said in Permissions Make No Sense:

        I think the problem is that as soon as a host is a member of the pool everything created "belongs" to the pool and not the host.
        You'd have to setup a standalone host to be able to achieve what you want since that "single" host would create its own "pool" where itself is the only member.

        No company of any scale is going to have a standalone host for this though. It arguably only makes sense to get GDAP style permissions created, where you have the ability to limit what can happen within the entire pool, this way you don't have separate sets of permissions on differing workloads.

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          nikade Top contributor @DustinB
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          @DustinB said in Permissions Make No Sense:

          @nikade said in Permissions Make No Sense:

          I think the problem is that as soon as a host is a member of the pool everything created "belongs" to the pool and not the host.
          You'd have to setup a standalone host to be able to achieve what you want since that "single" host would create its own "pool" where itself is the only member.

          No company of any scale is going to have a standalone host for this though. It arguably only makes sense to get GDAP style permissions created, where you have the ability to limit what can happen within the entire pool, this way you don't have separate sets of permissions on differing workloads.

          Yeah thats correct, you wont be able to pin permissions to a specific host.
          So far we havent had the need to do so, we just delegate X cores, Y Gb RAM, Z Gb disk and thats about it. For us it doesnt matter what hosts in the pool that our dev's runs their VM's.

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            jimmymiller @DustinB
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            @DustinB
            Does the Self Service resource sets not cover your needs? I understand wanting to limit resources so they don't impact others, but pinning down to a specific host that may be a part of a larger pool can make ACLs ugly. Especially when you enable HA or Plans/DRS. If you aren't planning to enable those features, why not leave the host as an independent pool and give them access that way?

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              DustinB @jimmymiller
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              @jimmymiller said in Permissions Make No Sense:

              @DustinB
              Does the Self Service resource sets not cover your needs? I understand wanting to limit resources so they don't impact others, but pinning down to a specific host that may be a part of a larger pool can make ACLs ugly. Especially when you enable HA or Plans/DRS. If you aren't planning to enable those features, why not leave the host as an independent pool and give them access that way?

              No, SS doesn't address the ask.

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                jimmymiller @DustinB
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                @DustinB So what features about the pool are you wanting to use that you can't just give them access to the individual host (i.e. as a single host pool)?

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                • Tristis OrisT Offline
                  Tristis Oris Top contributor
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                  I agree, got a similar dilemma now.
                  Required to grant permissions to single host (gpu computing) and ability to create\remove VMs.

                  But it looks it no ACL for VM creation, it available only for global admin\pool admin accounts. So only way is setup standalone XO for each single host? This way i lose the pool storage and VM migration.

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                    DustinB @Tristis Oris
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                    @Tristis-Oris said in Permissions Make No Sense:

                    I agree, got a similar dilemma now.
                    Required to grant permissions to single host (gpu computing) and ability to create\remove VMs.

                    But it looks it no ACL for VM creation, it available only for global admin\pool admin accounts. So only way is setup standalone XO for each single host? This way i lose the pool storage and VM migration.

                    I'm glad someone else came across the same issue I was encountering (still don't have a solution) but maybe the vates team is working on it.

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                    • olivierlambertO Offline
                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                      If you want to get more than permission on existing objects, you need to use the self service, it's made exactly for that.

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                        Tristis Oris Top contributor @olivierlambert
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                        @olivierlambert but, what is this?) i see nothing at docs.
                        ah. this self service, not a build-in acl group.

                        That mean i need to create some VM templates and share them to user, but even devs don't know what they will need.
                        This more a bout resource limitation, which is not my task. Or i'm wrong?

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                          DustinB @Tristis Oris
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                          @Tristis-Oris you can read up on it here, https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/users.html#self-service-portal

                          While Self-Service might "scratch the itch" I've been able to talk my team off the edge and just let me manage the environment and grant them access to the VM's through other means.

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                            Tristis Oris Top contributor @DustinB
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                            @DustinB yeah i already remember about that button. Still not sure is it suitiable for me. Need to check it again.

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                              Tristis Oris Top contributor
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                              yes, it almost what i need, really great. But you can't setup host affinity via self-service VM creation. Since i have different GPU on hosts, some persons required only 1 host from the whole pool.

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                                Tristis Oris Top contributor @Tristis Oris
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                                you can't configure vGPU limitation at self-service rule, but user can select vGPU at VM creation based on that rule. So it would be unlimited. But i can't really check it with my nvidia cards.

                                and what is Share this VM?

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