Add Disks

[Julien953]

Hello,

I have a question.
We are a service provider and I would like to allow my clients to create new disks on their virtual machines.

However, is it possible to restrict certain parameters with fixed values, for example, requiring my clients to use thick disks instead of thin ones, and locking the choice of controller, etc.?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

[agrare]

Hi @Julien953 at this time we don't have a good way to do this using the reconfigure form that you have above

I think your best bet would be to do this either with a custom service dialog for reconfigure, or to add a custom button if you want to enable this on any VM not just one that is part of a service.

The current reconfigure form is defined in manageiq-ui-classic code and isn't able to be readily modified at runtime. This is something that we are looking at fixing, specifically because the form can't be modified by the various provider plugins (the UI code has specific class name checks which is a red flag for pluggability).

We hadn't considered users wanting to limit or modify the selections however, and this is a use-case we will consider when we rewrite these forms.

[Julien953]

Hi @agrare thanks for your answer.

I make custom button for this option.

[agrare]

I opened an issue to track redesigning the reconfigure dialogs and linked back to this issue so we can keep it in mind as we do this.

Thanks @Julien953 for the use-case! I'm going to close this out now and any further discussion can be on the new design issue.