Managing disks and storage in the XO GUI
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Hi, I would like to ask if there is any plan for more advanced GUI support for managing local storage on individual hosts. I mean a comfortable management of disk devices, so that the preparation for mounting local storage does not have to be done in the command line with Linux tools, for example preparing and managing disks connected to a raid etc.
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Hi,
I'm not sure exactly about what you seek. Can you give practical examples?
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Sure, for example I have 4 disks in my host server ready for local storage. I would like to list them in the GUI and create a RAID 5 from them, without having to connect to the host server console and use the mdadm tool. And I would like to select this RAID to create local storage again by selecting it without having to specify the device path.
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abudef said in Managing disks and storage in the XO GUI:
create a RAID 5
Or rather ZFS, but I guess it doesn't matter, it's more about the GUI management option in general...
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This requires some extra plugins to be able to do it, and as it's rather "advanced"/not usual for the main XCP-ng use cases (which is connecting to iSCSI/NFS/shared storages, it's not a priority. Which doesn't mean it's not a good idea or interesting, but there's some work to do it and then to maintain it.
