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Bug 1064574

Summary: [RFE] Add ISO+export options to "add more storage" in data center guide-me
Product: [oVirt] ovirt-engine Reporter: Matt Reid <mreid>
Component: Frontend.WebAdminAssignee: Allon Mureinik <amureini>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Raz Tamir <ratamir>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: ---CC: bugs, cnegus, gklein, jmatthew, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, sfolkwil, srevivo, ykaul, ylavi
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: FutureFeature, Improvement
Target Release: ---Flags: ylavi: ovirt-future?
rule-engine: planning_ack?
rule-engine: devel_ack?
rule-engine: testing_ack?
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: 1065731 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-03-13 11:00:11 UTC Type: Bug
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Only Data / NFS offered as choice from dialog none

Description Matt Reid 2014-02-12 21:29:00 UTC 
Description of problem:
Following the guide https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/703153 to set up storage, it tells you to:

Add ISO Library: Select Add More Storage (or Attach ISO Library if the ISO domain was created during setup). From the New Storage pop-up that appears, type a name for the new ISO storage (such as ISO_DOMAIN), make sure ISO/NFS is the storage type, for Use Host have your RHEV-H appear, and set the export path to the NFS share you created earlier for the ISO domain. For example, rhevm.example.com:/var/lib/exports/iso. Then click OK. (Or, just select the ISO domain you created during setup and select OK.)

In my experience, at least using RHEV 3.2, the New Storage dialog that pops up when you click on Add More Storage from the Guide Me dialog only lets you choose "Data / NFS" and you can't set it to be any other type.

Either the doc may need an update to have them create the storage outside of the Guide Me dialog, or ideally, it seems like RHEV should let you change the type there. The button doesn't say Add More Data Storage, it's just Storage, I would expect to be able to modify the type and not have to back out of the Guide Me dialog, go over to the Storage tab, and pop open the same new storage dialog there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into admin portal
2. Go to Data Centers tab, click on a data center
3. Click on Guide Me
4. Click Add More Storage
5. Click on the Domain Function / Storage Type dropdown

Actual results:
Only Data / NFS offered as a selection

Expected results:
Be able to select the other types, like you can when you access this New Storage dialog from the Storage tab

Additional info:
Comment 1 Matt Reid 2014-02-12 21:30:20 UTC 
Created attachment 862537 [details]
Only Data / NFS offered as choice from dialog
Comment 2 Vered Volansky 2014-02-16 12:39:28 UTC 
In 3.2 there are specific storage types for data center, in this case (screenshot) NFS. In this case it's acceptable to only add an nfs storage domain.
Opening another bug on docs as a clone.
Comment 3 Jodi Biddle 2014-02-16 22:19:41 UTC 
Please note that KCS articles are not part of the official product documentation suite, and are subject to frequent change. Chris Negus is most likely the author of this document. 

Chris, can you please confirm this is your document so I can change the assignee to you?
Comment 4 Allon Mureinik 2014-02-18 07:22:56 UTC 
(In reply to Jodi Biddle from comment #3)
> Please note that KCS articles are not part of the official product
> documentation suite, and are subject to frequent change. Chris Negus is most
> likely the author of this document. 
> 
> Chris, can you please confirm this is your document so I can change the
> assignee to you?

There are two issues here:

1. A lacking feature in the product ("future feature", "improvement", call it what you will) - the Guide Me dialog should allow adding ISO and Export domains.

2. The fact that the KCS article conveys wrong information in light of the /current/ product's features.

Both issues need to be solved at some point of time or the other (based on the relevant assignee's prioritization), and both need to be tracked.
So far, we've been using this BZ to track issue (1). 
Jodi/Chris - unfortunately, I'm not really familiar with the work-process for content engineering. How should we track issue (2) in a way it won't interfere with tracking issue (1)? Add a doc-text-required flag? Open a new bug? Something else?


Thanks in advance,
Allon
Comment 5 Chris Negus 2014-02-18 11:59:00 UTC 
(In reply to Jodi Biddle from comment #3)
> Please note that KCS articles are not part of the official product
> documentation suite, and are subject to frequent change. Chris Negus is most
> likely the author of this document. 
> 
> Chris, can you please confirm this is your document so I can change the
> assignee to you?

Yes. The article https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/703153 is my document. I'll make the fix and respond back here when it is done.
Comment 6 Chris Negus 2014-03-04 20:22:40 UTC 
I fixed the article: https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/703153. It now notes that only DATA/NFS should be available as the storage type, since that was the storage type assigned to the datacenter.
Comment 7 Itamar Heim 2014-07-15 12:47:38 UTC 
I'm not sure if we should fix this, as we are trying to make iso/export being "just paths", rather than storage domains.
Comment 8 Yaniv Kaul 2017-03-13 11:00:11 UTC 
Closing, as we hope to deprecate both domain types in the future.