Access Portals

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager provides three portals you can use to configure, manage, and monitor your environment: Administration Portal, VM Portal, and Monitoring Portal.

The Administration Portal is the graphical administration interface of the oVirt Engine server. Administrators can monitor, create, and maintain all elements of the virtualized environment from web browsers. Tasks that can be performed from the Administration Portal include:

  • Creation and management of virtual infrastructure (networks, storage domains)
  • Installation and management of hosts
  • Creation and management of logical entities (data centers, clusters)
  • Creation and management of virtual machines
  • User and permission management

The VM Portal presents a comprehensive view of a virtual machine and allows the user to start, stop, edit, and view details of a virtual machine. The actions available to a user in the VM Portal are set by a system administrator who can delegate additional administration tasks to a user, such as:

  • Create, edit, and remove virtual machines
  • Manage virtual disks and network interfaces
  • Create and use snapshots to restore virtual machines to previous states

Direct connection to virtual machines is facilitated with VNC clients. Both protocols provide the user with an environment similar to a locally installed desktop. The administrator specifies the protocol used to connect to a virtual machine at the time of the virtual machine’s creation.

For more information on the VM Portal, see oVirt Documentation.

The Monitoring Portal opens Grafana where you can see the built-in Grafana dashboards: Executive, Inventory, Service Level, and Trend. You can create customized dashboards or copy and modify existing dashboards according to your reporting needs.

Grafana integration is enabled and installed by default when you run the engine-setup in a stand alone Manager or Self-Hosted engine installation. You might need to install Grafana manually under some scenarios such as performing an upgrade, restoring a backup, or when the data warehouse is migrated to a separate machine.

For more information on the Monitoring Portal, see oVirt Documentation and Grafana Documentation.