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

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What's the impact of a high cpu steal time on XenServer's dom0?

From what I understand, cpu steal time is the CPU time that the VM kernel requested, but was denied by the hypervisor because it was serving another VM. From my experience, on a XenServer that has dozens of VMs running, from time to time the steal…
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XenServer 6.5 Zeroed Performance Metrics for IOPS

In one of my XenServer 6.5 pools, I'm adding some graphs in XenCenter to measure my iSCSI storage IOPS and throughput performance and I'm getting no response. The graph is actually responsive, but values are kept on zero. That issue occurred only…
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Mounting virtual disks on XenServer

I want to mount virtual disks on the XenServer host. I don't have any free space to create a partition this way and want to use a virtual disk on local storage to store ISO images. I can't find any instructions on doing this. Basically I need to…
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Live Migration - Switch Infrastructure

We will be deploying into an environment intended for maximum resilience/redundancy and the capability for rapid scalability. Context This environment is: 1 x NAS server with FreeNAS RAID 2 x application host servers 1 x managed layer 2 switch 1 x…
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Can't install Solaris 10 on XenServer 6.5 VM

I have XenServer 6.5 installed on a server, and i have been trying to install Solaris 10 on a VM, it just get into the boot screen of the installation ISO, i proceed with ENTER and then this message appear: WARNING: Attempting to load Xen drivers on…
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Deleted /var/patch/applied -- Can I recreate it?

I was cleaning out old patches in my Xenserver and accidentally deleted the applied directory in /var/patch. I know which patches have been applied so can I recreate that folder? Is there an example of what was inside of it? Noob mistake and no…
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How to add a serial port to a Windows 7 guest VM using Xen server 6.5?

We wonder how to add a SERIAL PORT (COM2) into a guest HPVM Windows 7 64 bits in a xen server 6.5 bare metal hypervisor. We have some clients connecting through RDP v8.1 (from Win7-64 to Win7-64) with two ore more physical SERIAL PORT. We want to…
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xenserver low disk io performance

I have XenServer 6.2 (updates applied XS62E001, XS62E002, XS62E004, XS62E005, XS62E007, XS62E008, XS62E009, XS62E010, XS62E011, XS62E012, XS62E013, XS62E014, XS62ESP1, XS62ESP1002) running a year in the HP ProLiant 380p g8 hardware. Today it was…
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Xackup Backup Type for Xen Server 6.5

I'm running the Xackup trial and started backing up a few linux and windows VM's. I selected disk and memory state as the type of backup. Everything ran fine and backed up ok. When I went to edit the scheduled backup plan I made to add another VM…
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Install ossec ids on citrix xenserver dom0

I'm running citrix xen server on a server with two nic each with dedicated public ip and the management interface is directly connected to the www and protected with iptables that allow connections only from my static remote ip. My question is, I…
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Trying to add 2nd iSCSI VDS to XenServer, receiving error about LUN already used by other SR

I've stepped out of my comfort zone here. Some background. I just provisioned a 2nd vdisk+volume on a HP MSA2000. This SAN is has another vdisk+volume linked to Xenserver. I set the mapping to the hosts in the MSA config but when I try to add a new…
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Dell Supplemental Pack Xenserver 6.5

I'm running xenserver 6.5 SP1 on my Poweredge M620. I want to take advantage of the remote host power on/off features but it looks like I need to install a Dell Supplemental Package. I've been seeing a lot of people mention installing Open Manage…
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Xenserver 6.5: kernel panic - noapic parameter is incompatible with Xen

Currently I have a server and I want to install XenServer on it, the problem is that I get a kernel panic during the installation procedure. 'kernel panic - not syncing: the noapic parameter is incompatible with Xen.' So I've traced it to the point…
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What hypervisors support vGPU?

Does anyone know if any open source hypervisor supports vGPUs? It looks like XenServer and vSphere are the only two hypervisors that support virtual graphics cards (true vGPU, not passthrough or software emulated). I was poking around the…
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X3250 Server: stuck at firmware screen

The server is initialize, then it is stuck at the IBM System X Server Firmware screen (before F1, F12 appears, etc). You can see in the attached…
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