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XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.

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SAS drives as separate logical drives for VMs on Xensever 7.6

I have 6 72GB SAS drives on my HP DL580 but they all show up as one collective Logical Dive. Is there a way to have seperate drives so I can pass them to the VMs to be used as such ?
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Performance on Pinned CPU cores versus automatically managed?

I have a XenServer 7.5 environment where I'm running a single Windows VM with 16 total vCPU's. My server has dual Xeon E5-2620v4 CPU's with 8cores/16threads each clocked at 2.1GHz nominal and a Max Turbo at 3GHz. My question is whether allowing the…
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Xenserver 7 does not see new raid array just added on Dell R710 server

I have a question regarding how Xenserver 7.0 sees and add local storage raid arrays from a Dell R710 server. Originally, the server came with a raid 5 setup of 4 hard drives, for a total of 800GB of space. I installed Xenserver on top of this raid…
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How to Change the network adapter setting of a virtual machine running Win7 on a Xen Server?

I have a Xen server running on a linux debian, the Xen server runs some virtual machines that are service servers (Domain, Antivirus, Biostart, etc.) but there is one with Win7 that appears with the network adapter disabled which does not allow…
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Drop packet to bridged domU in XenServer

I have Xenserver in version 7.2 with several VM. I only have 1 nic (eth0). All VM are bridged to xenbr0. I would like to drop some type of packet so in /etc/sysconfig/iptables I added : -A INPUT -p udp --dport 161 -j DROP here is the complete file…
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XenServer export fails

When I try to export a virtual machine using XenCenter, it fails weirdly; XenCenter creates a "Transfer VM" that should do the export, but that VM failts to start and gets stuck in "stopped" status. I already had a look at the Transfer VM template…
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How to install OpenBSD 6.2 guest in XenServer 7?

I'm trying to create new VM from vanilla OpenBSD 6.2 install CD on XenServer 7. I can't even boot install CD. Basically, i get this: Boot device: CD-Rom199MB medium detected - success. CR-ROM: E0 Loading /6.2/I386/CDBOOT Then VM shuts…
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CentOS guest eth0 limited to 100Mbps in XenServer host

The host shows a bond of 2Gbps, but the CentOS guest only has 100Mbps according to dd. Using ethtool the only information is that the link exists (which I gather is correct for a guest VM). Xen tools are installed. Where should I start…
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How can I get a Linux *partition* image to boot in a XenServer virtual machine?

I am trying to migrate a Linux PC to a virtual machine running in XenServer. Normally I would just create an image of the boot disk (/dev/sda) with dd and use that to overwrite an empty virtual disk image. Unfortunately the boot disk is rather large…
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Software-RAID1 in Virtualization

I got a little homeserver which runs a Windows as FileServer and hosts a Ubuntu-VM for little monitoring tasks and other stuff that are not available in Windows. In the past however, this lead to some unnecessary downtimes, because of reboots wich…
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XenServer 7.2 Hot Fix - Can only apply to Pool not Individual Hosts

I'm running xenserver 7.2 on a few M620 blade servers. I'm trying to apply XS72E004 and 005 patches. I go to the notification section and select Download/Install next to each patch. I have a pool created and if I leave the pool selected I can apply…
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Questions regarding PostgreSQL virtualization

I have not experience on planning PostgreSQL on virtualized nor physical server environments so I need to get some advice how to do things correctly. We have two identical servers and we need to make the solution for virtualized PostgreSQL and App…
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Xenserver VM network speed very slow

In XEN cloud the Internet in the virtual machines is very slow - just the external internet. Both in windows-based machines and in Linux-based machines. The situation is this: When you access the VMs on ports 80/443 using the browser the speed is…
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copy - not move - vm from one xen server to another

I have two xen servers, 6.5 and xencenter 7.0. They are with OVH and since they don't offer dynamic IP sharing between the machines I guess it makes no sense to add them into a pool? Anyway that's not the question, just clarification. I want to copy…
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Kali linux on xenserver 6.5 is not displaying in VM console

I have a problem with installed Kali Linux 2016 x64 as VM on Xenserver 6.5. Installing done successful, but when system starting, it not displaying in VM console. I know, what system started, because ping on it working. But I can't do anything with…
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