What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine
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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?
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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.
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@stacksofplates 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.
You need to install cockpit-storaged and it will have all of the storage stuff available.
That's why I don't normally see it. I don't add in the extras for Cockpit.
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@stacksofplates thanks a bunch! it shows now!
yum install cockpit-networkmanager
yum install cockpit-storaged
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@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@stacksofplates thanks a bunch! it shows now!
yum install cockpit-networkmanager
yum install cockpit-storagedAwesome. Cockpit is the best kind of GUI. I'm still not a proponent of having GUIs for SA tasks, but Cockpit is the best of all options. It's a remote GUI over the web, it has integrated security, it is light, and it is integrated with the OS, and is supported by the core vendor.
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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:
@stacksofplates thanks a bunch! it shows now!
yum install cockpit-networkmanager
yum install cockpit-storagedAwesome. Cockpit is the best kind of GUI. I'm still not a proponent of having GUIs for SA tasks, but Cockpit is the best of all options. It's a remote GUI over the web, it has integrated security, it is light, and it is integrated with the OS, and is supported by the core vendor.
It doesn't really get any better than that.
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@tim_g said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@scottalanmiller said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@kuyaz said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:
@stacksofplates thanks a bunch! it shows now!
yum install cockpit-networkmanager
yum install cockpit-storagedAwesome. Cockpit is the best kind of GUI. I'm still not a proponent of having GUIs for SA tasks, but Cockpit is the best of all options. It's a remote GUI over the web, it has integrated security, it is light, and it is integrated with the OS, and is supported by the core vendor.
It doesn't really get any better than that.
Well, CLI, but other than that
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Cockpit has come a long way in the last year or two. It's kind of leading the industry as far as nice interfaces. Still early without a ton of functionality, but it is getting better and better.
