What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine
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There are a few tools that can do this locally. You could probably use them remotely, but that would be a big pain.
Honestly, LVM is so easy to use from the command line, and so easy to use remotely from the command line, that there is no need for a GUI at all, let alone a remote one.
Plus LVM is something you set up during install and basically never have to look at again. So having a GUI would be more effort to set up than just doing the LVM setup itself.
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@mlnews Forgive my ignorance. How often would someone need to use LVM?
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@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@mlnews Forgive my ignorance. How often would someone need to use LVM?
Typically... once when a system is first installed (generally a GUI at that time) and then never again. Those that do use it would typically be once every few years. It's a super rare thing to do.
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@reid-cooper said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@mlnews Forgive my ignorance. How often would someone need to use LVM?
Typically... once when a system is first installed (generally a GUI at that time) and then never again. Those that do use it would typically be once every few years. It's a super rare thing to do.
I thought that would be the case. I had to lookup what it was. Once I realized what it was, I didn't think it would be used more than the Windows equivalent.
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@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@reid-cooper said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@mlnews Forgive my ignorance. How often would someone need to use LVM?
Typically... once when a system is first installed (generally a GUI at that time) and then never again. Those that do use it would typically be once every few years. It's a super rare thing to do.
I thought that would be the case. I had to lookup what it was. Once I realized what it was, I didn't think it would be used more than the Windows equivalent.
It's more powerful and flexible, so it might get used just a little bit more often. But basically the same. It just sits there doing its job.
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Kind of like filesystem settings. Basically you choose your filesystem at install time and you are done.
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@reid-cooper said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Kind of like filesystem settings. Basically you choose your filesystem at install time and you are done.
Now I am curious as to what @mlnews is doing that warrants the request.
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@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@reid-cooper said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Kind of like filesystem settings. Basically you choose your filesystem at install time and you are done.
Now I am curious as to what @mlnews is doing that warrants the request.
It was a cross post for @kuyaz
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@mlnews said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Cross post for @kuyaz
Is there anyway to install LVM GUI and use it for another remote machine ?
any recommended LVM GUI that is user friendly?
Cockpit
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@tim_g said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@mlnews said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Cross post for @kuyaz
Is there anyway to install LVM GUI and use it for another remote machine ?
any recommended LVM GUI that is user friendly?
Cockpit
Does Cockpit cover LVM functions now? That's pretty cool if so. I've not looked at it in a while.
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@tim_g said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Cockpit
cool... will research on that...
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@tim_g said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Cockpit
cool... will research on that...
Cockpit is a really useful utility. It's a web GUI and it is made by Fedora. So it is fully included, set up, secured, and supported as part of the OS.
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@tim_g said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
Cockpit
cool... will research on that...
You can add other servers that has cockpit installed and managed them from one webui.
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@tim_g manage to install cockpit, but the storage menu wont show up. It is on centos 7 - xen dom0 .
Any idea how to show the storage menu?It is working well in my fedora 26 in my laptop. I have the storage menu.
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@tim_g manage to install cockpit, but the storage menu wont show up. It is on centos 7 - xen dom0 .
Any idea how to show the storage menu?It is working well in my fedora 26 in my laptop. I have the storage menu.
I did install Cockpit on CentOS once... but I can't recall whether or not I had a storage menu item. I've been using Fedora 99% of the time.
I'll check it out tomorrow.
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@tim_g manage to install cockpit, but the storage menu wont show up. It is on centos 7 - xen dom0 .
Any idea how to show the storage menu?It is working well in my fedora 26 in my laptop. I have the storage menu.
Why are you using CentOS?
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@scottalanmiller i use centos initially, but now im playing around with fedora as you recommended. so far so good.
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@scottalanmiller said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@tim_g manage to install cockpit, but the storage menu wont show up. It is on centos 7 - xen dom0 .
Any idea how to show the storage menu?It is working well in my fedora 26 in my laptop. I have the storage menu.
Why are you using CentOS?
In one of my cases, for ovirt-engine.
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@scottalanmiller i use centos initially, but now im playing around with fedora as you recommended. so far so good.
For KVM especially you’ll want Fedora.
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@tim_g manage to install cockpit, but the storage menu wont show up. It is on centos 7 - xen dom0 .
Any idea how to show the storage menu?It is working well in my fedora 26 in my laptop. I have the storage menu.
You need to install cockpit-storaged and it will have all of the storage stuff available.
