Hi there,
First of all thank you guys! You've done a great job. We have been using PVE in various production environments since the first public version 0.9 and stability has never been a problem. Keep this quality level!
A few GUI improvements for the VM listing page came up into my mind:
1. List sort option
It would be nice to be able to sort all VMs at least by VMID and name. We are running 30+ containers in many of our hw-nodes and to find a particular container by name may sometimes be a job. Especially when the VMIDs are not assigned in a running sequence but based on intranet ip addresses like in my case.
2. Description column
In addition to the container name a short description field would help alot. You could see the whole environment at a glance instead of peeking into every single container to see the notes. The case is often so that you can't remember the purpose and services running on a container just by its name. And it's even more difficult when the VE naming convention is not so descriptive. I realize that the gui relies heavily on openvz and qemu, but the description column could be a short snippet from the beginning of VM notes if it's not possible to implement that as an independent property.
3. VE grouping / hierarchy
Yet another suggestion to help to manage a big number of containers. If every container could be a member of some group and the groups could have user modifiable names. In the VM listing page you could then expand/collapse these groups in order to show hide the containers withing the group.
Regards,
MV
First of all thank you guys! You've done a great job. We have been using PVE in various production environments since the first public version 0.9 and stability has never been a problem. Keep this quality level!
A few GUI improvements for the VM listing page came up into my mind:
1. List sort option
It would be nice to be able to sort all VMs at least by VMID and name. We are running 30+ containers in many of our hw-nodes and to find a particular container by name may sometimes be a job. Especially when the VMIDs are not assigned in a running sequence but based on intranet ip addresses like in my case.
2. Description column
In addition to the container name a short description field would help alot. You could see the whole environment at a glance instead of peeking into every single container to see the notes. The case is often so that you can't remember the purpose and services running on a container just by its name. And it's even more difficult when the VE naming convention is not so descriptive. I realize that the gui relies heavily on openvz and qemu, but the description column could be a short snippet from the beginning of VM notes if it's not possible to implement that as an independent property.
3. VE grouping / hierarchy
Yet another suggestion to help to manage a big number of containers. If every container could be a member of some group and the groups could have user modifiable names. In the VM listing page you could then expand/collapse these groups in order to show hide the containers withing the group.
Regards,
MV