Manage cloud resources with the Dashboard
Use the Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) Dashboard service (horizon) to provide cloud users with a web-based interface for self-service cloud resource management, reducing administrative overhead while improving accessibility and user adoption.
The Dashboard provides an intuitive graphical alternative to command-line tools, enabling users to manage instances, networks, storage, and other cloud resources through a browser-based interface. By configuring the Dashboard, you can control which features and services are available to different user roles, customize the interface to match your organization’s branding and workflows, and provide monitoring capabilities that help users understand their resource consumption. The Dashboard is particularly valuable for organizations that need to support users who are unfamiliar with OpenStack CLI tools or who prefer visual interfaces for routine cloud operations.
Administrative controls
The Admin tab provides administrative controls for managing instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects, users, services, and quotas across all projects.
The Admin tab provides the following parameters:
| Parameter name | Description |
|---|---|
| Overview |
View basic reports. |
| Resource Usage |
Use the following tabs to view the following usages:
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| Hypervisors |
View the hypervisor summary. |
| Host Aggregates |
View, create, and edit host aggregates. View the list of availability zones. |
| Instances |
View, pause, resume, suspend, migrate, soft or hard reboot, and delete running instances that belong to users of some, but not all, projects. Also, view the log for an instance or access an instance with the console. |
| Volumes |
View, create, edit, and delete volumes, and volume types. |
| Flavors |
View, create, edit, view extra specifications for, and delete flavors. Flavors are the virtual hardware templates in Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO). |
| Images |
View, create, edit properties for, and delete custom images. |
| Networks |
View, create, edit properties for, and delete networks. |
| Routers |
View, create, edit properties for, and delete routers. |
| Floating IPs |
View allocated floating IP addresses for all projects. |
| Defaults |
View and edit the default quotas (maximum limits) for resources in the environment. |
| Metadata Definitions |
Import, view, and edit metadata definition namespaces, and associate the metadata definitions with specific resource types. |
| System Information |
Contains the following tabs:
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Project resource management
The Project tab enables project members to manage their allocated cloud resources including instances, volumes, networks, and storage.
The Project tab provides the following tabs:
| Parameter name | Description |
|---|---|
| Overview |
View reports for the project. |
| Instances |
View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or reboot instances, or connect to them through the console. |
| Volumes |
Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:
|
| Images |
View images, instance snapshots, and volume snapshots that project users create, and any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images and snapshots. |
| Access & Security |
Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:
|
| Parameter name | Description |
|---|---|
| Network Topology |
View the interactive topology of the network. |
| Networks |
Create and manage public and private networks and subnets. |
| Routers |
Create and manage routers. |
| Trunks |
Create and manage trunks. Requires the |
| Parameter name | Description |
|---|---|
| Containers |
Create and manage storage containers. A container is a storage compartment for data, and provides a way for you to organize your data. It is similar to the concept of a Linux file directory, but it cannot be nested. |
| Parameter name | Description |
|---|---|
| Stacks |
Orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications with templates, through both an OpenStack-native REST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API. |
Identity management
The Identity tab provides administrators with centralized project, user, and group management including quotas, memberships, and permissions.
This includes the ability to view, create, edit, and delete projects, view project usage, add or remove users as project members, modify quotas, and set an active project. You can also view, create, edit, disable, and delete users, and change user passwords.
Monitor PCPU usage across hypervisors
Monitor pinned CPU (pCPU) allocation and availability across hypervisors to optimize resource utilization and plan capacity.
Procedure
- Click Admin.
- Click Compute.
- In the Compute submenu, click Hypervisors.
- View the PCPU Usage parameter in the Resource Providers Summary section of this All Hypervisors page.
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