Feature Mix: New UI, New Reports, Volume Management, Customer Tenants Wizard

We‘ve been continuously upgrading Maestro administration to meet our users’ growing demands and going up with the tides of the continually developing virtual infrastructure solutions.

In this release, you can see brief overviews for the most expected improvements of the latest time:

Maestro UI redesign

We have reviewed the design of the Maestro application to increase our application’s usability and make the experience of working with Maestro more effortless and intuitively understandable:
  • Navigation restructuring – Rebuilding the Menu to make it minimalistic, intuitive, and recognizable throughout the solution. Introducing Main and sub-menus for easy navigation across functionality (tenant groups and regions).
  • Dashboard focused on User Type – Highlighting three main user types (Sales, Financial, Technical) in the enhanced layout. The respective content is now displayed for each user type.
  • Management page redesign – Improving tabs layout to provide more intuitive and understandable data submission. Adding the most crucial KPIs to the bar on the left.
  • Responsive UI – Using Flexbox and Angular to implement a stylish, modern, and convenient interface, thus reconsidering the look and feel of the application.
  • Survey Engine redesign – Enhancing the Survey layout to fit modern design trends and user experience best practices.
  • Maestro Main page redesign – Enhancing the Main page layout to correspond to the overall style and feel of the application.

Reporting Improvements

The Reporting functionality was enhanced, introducing the following reports:
  • Resource Cost report – provides information on total costs for the specified tenant, 15 regions and 15 services with the highest costs for a tenant in a selected month and total cost for different resource types for a tenant for a year. 
  • Average CPU Workload report – provides information about the actual workload for series of instances and single instances. 

Volume Management for Azure and Google

We also broadened the Volume Management functionality for Azure and Google clouds. It is now possible to increase the volume of default storage for instances created in Azure and Google clouds. For these purposes, a new field, Additional Storage (GB), was added in the Run wizard.
It is also possible to increase the volume of the already created instance via the Volumes tab -> Manage Volumes wizard in the Content View section.

Customer Tenants Wizard

We continue enhancing the Configuration page functionality by introducing a new Manage Customer Tenants wizard. This wizard allows users to manage contacts and roles in the tenant and activate new regions and tenants. The following operations can be performed in the Manage Customer Tenants wizard:
  • Activate tenant
  • Activate region
  • Manage tenant contacts
  • Manage tenant roles
  • Manage images


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