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Overview

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This Chapter contains reference guides for Sunstone end users.

How Should I Read This Chapter

The following sections are intended for the cloud consumers. They can skip most of the OpenNebula documentation and read these two guides only.

Proceed to the corresponding guide by following these links:

Self-service Cloud View: For cloud consumers that just require a portal where they can provision new Virtual Machines and services easily.
Group Admin View: For group administrators. This view allows the management of the group’s resources, including the creation of new users.

Hypervisor Compatibility

Sunstone is available for all the hypervisors.

Self-service Cloud View

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This is a simplified view intended for cloud consumers that just require a portal where they can provision new VMs easily. To create new VMs and Services, they just have to select one of the available Templates prepared by the administrators.

Using the Cloud

Create VM

In this scenario the cloud administrator must prepare a set of Templates and Images to make them available to the cloud users. These resources must be ready to be used.

Group Admin View

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The role of a Group Admin is to manage all the virtual resources of the Group, including the creation of new users. It’s like a limited version of the cloud administrator view. You can read more about OpenNebula’s approach to Groups and VDC’s from the perspective of different user roles in Cloud Access Models and Roles.

Important!

Group Admin is scoped to the administered group. For user management, this scope applies to users whose primary group is the administered group. Users that belong to a group only as a secondary group are not managed by the Group Admin of the primary group by default, since the user object is still owned by its primary group. Managing such users requires additional ACLs or actions from the cloud administrator.

Manage Users

The Group Admin can create new user accounts that will belong to the same Group.

Sunstone Labels

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Labels can be defined for most of the OpenNebula resources from the Admin view.

Depending on the type of label used, the label information will be stored under either the user or group template.

This feature enables the possibility to group the different resources under a given label and filter them in the Admin and Cloud views. The user will be able to easily find the template to instantiate _or select a set of resources to apply a given action.

Sunstone

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Overview

Sunstone is the new generation OpenNebula web interface, fully featured for VM and VM Template management and with other sections ready covering most functionality for end users.

This interface is delivered by the FireEdge server, and is its main interface, meaning that it will redirect to Sunstone when contacted in the http://<OPENNEBULA-FRONTEND>:2616/ address.

Configuration

To configure Sunstone, there are several options to consider and they are described in the FireEdge Configuration guide.