Viewing styles
In this recipe, we are going to see different viewing styles available in the Proxmox GUI.
Getting ready
We will start by logging in as a root user.
How to do it…
By default, the GUI is open with Server View. By clicking on the drop-down menu, as shown in the following figure, we can see the other types of views available:
Other view styles available to us are Folder View, Storage View, and Pool View.
How it works…
There are four viewing styles available in the Proxmox GUI:
- Server View
- Folder View
- Storage View
- Pool View
Displaying Server View
This is the most commonly used view among Proxmox users and is also used as a default in the GUI. The Server View viewing style displays all nodes individually along with their storages and any VMs or containers in them. With this view, it is easy to see which VM belongs to which node. As we can see from the following screenshot, with Server View it is easy to manage node by node:
Displaying Folder View
This view takes a categorized folder...
