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

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Generalized strategy for file server virtualization in Xenserver

I'm not shopping as much as I'm looking for some guidance on good idea / bad idea strategies. I'm sure I'm not in the "best practices" budget range. Currently, I have 3 dell poweredges running xenserver in a pool. Each node has a ubuntu file server,…
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XenServer and Quiesced snapshots

At work we use XenServer to administrate all the VM's. Now I wrote a script which enables Linux machines quiesced support. The script works absolutely fine. It activates if someone triggers a quiesced snapshot. Now here's the big question: Do the…
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Dealing with fragmented VM shared storage

We have a Citrix XenServer pool with 3 hosts, using a shared NFS Storage Repository for our VMs. The SR is hosted on a Windows 2003 Storage Server blade, that was included with our 3000 series HP Blade enclosure. I've just been having a look over…
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Shrink a Windows VM in XenServer

I faced a problem. I deployed a VM by size of 500GB on Citrix XenServer and now I want to shrink it, because I don't have enough space for snapshots. Now I want to perform an export/import to do this. I'm wondering if it's possible to import the OVF…
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Citrix Xen VM's lose networking

My client has a XenServer 6.0.2 installation with 2 Window Server 2008 R2 virtual machines. Whenever the virtual machines are rebooted they lose their IP settings (IP address, subnet, gateway). Each time after a reboot I need to login to each VM via…
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Difference between Xen XCP ISO install and apt-get install xcp-xapi

I just got some new hardware and am planning testing out the Xen hypervisor and Xen Cloud Platform (XCP).. more specifically, I am using a intel i5 3470, H77 chipset, 16GB RAM, and 2x2TB Hard drives which I want to put in raid 1. Oh, I have another…
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Change xenbr0 bridge name in XenServer

I want to setup a bridge in XenServer with a name other than xenbr0 , for example cloud0. I edited those files and their contenent so they can handle a bridged…
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Share IP from Xen (XCP) Dom0 to DomU

The situation: Xen Cloud Platform installed on a dedicated server. It is assigned a batch of IPs. I want to create a CentOS 6 VM (domU) that is running a WHM/Cpanel install, and has access to the host's IPs One of the caveats of cPanel is that it is…
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Creating tmpfs file system in xen server to store VM

i want to create a tmpfs file system for one of my vm to run on,using XEN Server. On the host machine i tried this but is not working,. xe sr-create device-config:device=/dev/shm name-label="RAM" type=tmpfs Is it possible to make a tmpfs file…
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XenServer/Center: Shared SRs for hosts not in same pool?

I would like to use the same SRs on XenServer hosts that are not able to be part of the same pool (because of not having the exact same cpu feature set, if I understand it correctly) in order to share templates, being able to (manually) start a host…
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XenCenter can't connect to server; missing methodResponse element

I'm trying to connect to the server (which I can ping successfully) in XenCenter but I keep getting an error that states "Response XML not valid XML-RPC - missing methodResponse element" . I tried looking up the error, but all I figured out is that…
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XenServer VM's lose network settings

We deploy virtual machines using Citrix XenServer 6.0 for our clients. Two seperate clients experience the same issue: when a Server 2008 virtual machine is restarted, the static IP addresses (network address, subnet, gateway, primary DNS) don't…
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Possible to host CentOS netinstall files on a local HTTP/FTP?

I'm running XenServer on an Dell R610 and am running into a catch-22. During install from DVD, CentOS can't find the DVD package catalogue. It's a reported error for some, XenServer + CentOS6 + DVD install in some hardware configurations = failed…
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Upgrading Citrix XenServer 5.0 to 5.5

We're currently running a XenServer 5.0 pool with 3 Hosts. I'd like to upgrade this to 5.5, but am wary to jump right in, so-to-speak. Wondering if anyone has attempted this in their own environment?
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Citrix XenServer, networking how

I am new to virtual servers, vlans. I am a programmer and have been assigned the task to make a stable storage server, i threw XenServer Free 5.6SP2 on an old box (HP ProLiant ML350 G5) set my raid(5), installed the footprint, all went well. very…
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