XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
Questions tagged [xenserver]
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Dedicated server configuration - some tips -Xenserver/Debian
I am migrating from a vps based hosting to a dedicated hosting (8GB RAM/1TB HD). I need to run multiple Drupal and Ruby based applications? what would be the recommended configuration. I was thinking of two options.
1) Install multiple Debian os on…
Sanjay S
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Hypervisor load on local disks
What is the I/O load on the local disk system for the host OS in XenServer? I can't find this info anywhere. As we have a SAN for the VMs themselves, can we get away with cheap controller / SATA disk in RAID-1 for the hypervisor? We won't boot from…
Chris
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How to setup a lacp bond for multiple network connections in XenServer
We're currently looking to use XenServer with Essentials for XenServer Enterprise together with a iSCSI SAN. What we're looking to do is to bond 4 gigabit ethernet connections to provide a large link to the iSCSI dedicated network.
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Xen Server Guest Network configuration?
I am trying to install Ubuntu Server as a domU (Guest) on Citrix XenServer. Everything works fine but I am not able to access the internet from the guest. Is there any specific thing that I need to do to configure the network for the Guest. I have…
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Virtualization solutions for a small Linux server?
I have a little machine ( AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.1 GHz, 3GB of DDR2, 320GB disk space) that I use as a server,
I would like to convert it as an Hypervisor to host many little Linux Virtual Machines (between 128MB and 256MB of RAM per VM, just for some…
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iSCSI, failover and XenServer
I have an iSCSI fail over implementation setup so if one of my storage units fails the other takes over immediately (it also runs the NFS shares). When fail over occurs, volumes are exported, the IP is switched to the other machine and the targets…
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HVM virtualization with PV drivers on XenServer
Is it possible to create an HVM guest in XenServer 5.5 that uses PV drivers for disk and network without being fully paravirutalized? This should give me decent performance from the VM without having to jump through hoops to create a PV guest when a…
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Dead Citrix XenServer with LVM: How to get the VHDs off the system?
My company recently delegated the task of recovering a fairly old (~2015) Citrix Xenserver to me. The machine had a major electrical fault which caused a hard drive failure and a collapse of the RAID. There is no backups, so the drives were sent in…
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Tool to maintain IBM x3650 - get info from faulty HW
I am have a server IBM x3650 M4 running XenServer and Windows guest. The server have a problem with harddrive, yellow exclamation mark blinking. I am able to turn off the server go to BIOS and get some brief info. The info is very brief and not…
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XenServer VHD format question
I may be confusing myself here so I'm asking for some clarification.
I have a large XenServer install that is currently using lvmoiscsi. I am looking for ways to reduce actual disk space usage. I am running ONLY linux VM's in this environment.
The…
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jemmille
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Wrong link speed; what happens if manually set speed using ethtool fails?
I've got a remote xen server and I noticed that the speed link in autoneg is 100 Full Duplex; all my network is 1000 Full Duplex; do you know any reason for this? Ethtool mentions on both my server advertised speed and link partner advertised speed…
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XenServer (Citrix) Management Network Interruption
We have an OOB/management network we use to loginto storage, hosts etc. We're using VLANs to separate out storage, from hosts, to camera's etc.
We would like to replace this switch with a new one using the previous config but we're wondering what…
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xenserver (xcp-ng) 7.6 slow export - TAPDISK high cpu usage - xen orchestra
I have a problem with high cpu usage by TAPDISK in xenserver - to be precise - in xcp-ng, I've posted the problem on xcp-ng forum but I didn't recieved any valid help from the creators of xcp-ng (...). Any way, the problem is when exporting…
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Is PCIe passthrough on Citrix Xen Hypervisor persistent?
I am virtualising my firewall, NAS and other services to reduce hardware diversity. Specifically I want to run at least PfSense and OpenMediaVault over Citrix Hypervisor (v8 at the time of writing).
This requires switching off network checksum…
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Xen Cloud Platform
Has anyone tried this one in a production environment yet?
As far as I can tell its basically Citrix' solution rewrapped as open source. But does it as of today provide the exact same features as XenServer 5.5?
Especially I wonder about HA features.
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