XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
Questions tagged [xenserver]
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Location of vm data on xen center
I can't find the vm data (metadata files, disk images) mounted anywhere on the xenserver server. Where is it located, and how can I reach it from dom0?
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Instruct Linux to cache files in swapfile
Background: The Linux VFS cache will cache every file that is read from the disk in memory. This keeps going until RAM is full, at which point the oldest files get kicked from the cache.
I am running XenServer with network attached storage. My…
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Xencenter guest will not boot
I have xen server free edition.
Today one of the guest VM was very loaded and I decided to reboot it.
Now it can not start. It is with Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
The machine is shown as running in xsconsole and in windows Xen control center. It shows 100…
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Georgi
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XenServer questions
my minimalistic configuration is composed of 1 storage + 2 XenServer in a pool.
My questions:
1) Will HA work in this configuration?
2) What is better for HA, connection with the storage by iSCSI or NFS ?
3) Could you somebody explain me what is…
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John
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iSCSI storage questions
We are thinking about getting HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 iSCSI, but I would be very glad, if someone could respond to some of my questions. We would like to have two XenServer hosts connected with iscsi to this storage.
1) Is it possible to connect it…
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John
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Citrix XenServer or VMWare on 32Bit Hardware
Does anyone know if either XenServer of VMWare have a virtual server version that will run on old 32bit servers? I've got a spare old server that I want to do some testing on with the technologies.
Thanks.
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Damaged XenServer Storage LVM partition table
I have a homeserver running under XenServer control with 3x1TB discs inside, one for XenServer and two mirrored(using Intel's fakeRAID and dmraid) for VMs and a user data(but now I think RAID didn't work). I tried to pass PCI card to VM using…
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How can I consolidate multiple MySQL servers?
Possible Duplicate:
How to copy user priviledges with MySQL?
I recently migrated a bunch of under utilized physical servers to one powerful server running Xenserver. I then turned one physical server into a database server.
Now, the issue is each…
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Is running a DNS server on XenServer a bad idea?
I have a cluster of servers running Xenserver 5.6 that host web email and VoIP services. I'm currently considering setting up a chrooted bind server on each Xenserver host (I mean on the actual server not inside a VM)
Is this a bad idea?
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Can XenServer be administered remotely?
I keep reading conflicting reports regarding Xencenters' management capabilities.
Is it true that you have to be on the same subnet to connect to Xenserver via XenCenter?
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edude05
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How to run a Turnkey Linux virtual machine on XenServer?
Turnkey Linux distributes Linux virtual machines in a Xen compatible format.
I have a XenServer instance running and I would like to run a recently downloaded Turnkey Linux virtual machine on it.
But I have never used XenServer before.
Can you point…
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What are the practical steps to migrate a virtual machine from VMWare ESXi to XenServer?
I now have a few virtual machines (Windows and Linux) running on VMWare esxi and we are considering migrating to XenServer. Is this possible? What are the practical steps?
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What would cause a XenServer 7.2 Windows 2019 VM to not release Driver Locked Memory back to the OS?
Problem:
We have a XenServer 7.2 environment running Windows Server 2019 terminal servers. Although seemingly random, we see the VM climb to a whopping 32GB of used memory and the users slow to a crawl until we reboot the guest OS.
When running…
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Docker inside virtual XEN Server
I'm running Docker containers inside a virtual machine (OpenSUSE).
While running the container i'm facing lots of problems while binding ports to my containers..!
Is it good practise to run docker inside Virtual machine..The Architecture for your…
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You attempted an operation on a VM which lacks the feature. (Xenserver)
Hello all,
I'm trying to assign a static IP to a CentOS VM through XenServer (7.6) CLI !
For windows vm it is possible !!
I followed the below steps,
1) xe vm-vif-list vm=(VM-name-label)
2) xe vif-list vm-uuid=(uuid-of-the-VM)
3) xe…
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Antony nixson
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