Xen Orchestra new design
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Hi guys, if there is any VEEAM users (or other popular VM backup products), I'll be happy to have feedback for improving our current VM backup workflow.
See https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/issues/999
I mean, it terms of UI, having something easier to understand and manage.
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I checked out the new interface yesterday. Here are some of my initial observations --
- It's damn fast!
- Unable to filter by host using the dropdown next to "Sort by"
- Didn't seem intuitive way to switch to pool view, storage view, etc
- New VM screen seems incomplete. Is it still a WIP?
- Encountered a few "page not found" issues
- Translation issue on New Backup page (Aperçu)
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Guys, it's not even beta ready
Could you wait a bit? Issues like non-existing page and broken filters are perfectly normal at this stage. Also a lot of WIP
Also the home view will have a switch to VM/host/pool view
edit: let's say Friday it will be more complete
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@olivier said in Xen Orchestra new design:
Guys, it's not even beta ready
Apparently that doesn't stop us from trying out the new shiny widgets.
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@BRRABill Good catch
Yes and I saw the last episode Monday, thus why I used this expression Anyway, it was mainly a tech rework (ditched Angular 1 for ReactJS/Redux/ReactSelect). Some base components start to be shipped, so the UI will evolve more quickly now!
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@travisdh1 I have no problem with that
Just reporting some issues will be a bit useless before with finished some basic things! -
@olivier said in Xen Orchestra new design:
@travisdh1 I have no problem with that
Just reporting some issues will be a bit useless before with finished some basic things!People are just getting jump @olivier they're excited for the amazing tool you / your team have made.
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This is how popular XO has become!!
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@olivier I seem to recall you stating that you liked constructive feedback.
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@Danp Constructive mean it brings something (ideas/bugs) we don't get before ^^ If we go public beta now, we'll have hundreds of reports about missing views/known non-finished things. That's all I would say by "constructive"
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Added some stuff this week, should feel a bit more complete on feature side.
Next week will be about:
- finishing the home view (pool/host search, switching to host mode)
- finishing the VM creation feature (with extra stuff)
- validating/replugin ACLs
- initial work on advanced stats view (heatmap/compare graphs)
- VDI attach/add on VM view, with grab reordering
- using pagination/filter for all tables
So enough to release a beta, let's say, Friday (17th).
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@olivier THANKS!
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@olivier said
So enough to release a beta, let's say, Friday (17th).
A present for Father's Day weekend!
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Assisted search filters for pools/hosts/tags are now working. Now on adding a switch on the home view to have also hosts.
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Home view can now display hosts too. ISO can be mounted in console, Ctrl+Alt+Del is also working.
Full VM creation will land tomorrow, so we'll cover 80% of previous features. That's where we'll merge in
next-release. Keep in mind that was a technical rework first (speed/architecture), we'll do a UI sweep probably for a 5.1 -
@olivier said in Xen Orchestra new design:
Home view can now display hosts too. ISO can be mounted in console, Ctrl+Alt+Del is also working.
Full VM creation will land tomorrow, so we'll cover 80% of previous features. That's where we'll merge in
next-release. Keep in mind that was a technical rework first (speed/architecture), we'll do a UI sweep probably for a 5.1Awesome!
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Copy/paste in console is also now working
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- New heatmap: ✓
- VM's VDI stuff (attach, add, boot order with drag and drop): ✓
- Health view with sorted/filtered table (very useful): ✓
VM creation is not yet ready, we made a massive change (less stuff in the web side and more in the server).
You could play with it on
v5.x, knowing those limitations.Planned for next week:
- finishing/validating VM creation
- network creation on Pool level
- major UI improvement for backup restore
- major UI improvement for users/groups/ACLs
- compare stats
- search improvement (save search, configure default search)
- UI sweep on some views (especially the wizard component)
This will lead us to a large scale beta release (also in XOA), and probably shortly after to a "final" release itself. QA work will be important, especially on ACLs side, which is critical before an official release.
Then, we could work on the UI directly, for the 5.1 ie:
- adding more dataviz
- improve current UI (CSS animation, avoid some non-finished/"ugly")
This would be a long process because the difference with a "rough" UI and a polished (details, transitions, animations) could cost a lot of work.
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Take a look on the "pulse" on GitHub: https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/pulse/monthly
That's serious work!
- 88 pull requests merged
- 43 (!) issue closed
- 281 commits
Commit activity (in red since we started the rework):
