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

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XenServer 6.2 VM Performance (SSD, RAID-10, Quad-core)

Greetings everyone :) My configuration is the following: HP C3000 tower enclosure 1st HP Proliant BL460 G1 quad core xeon 2.66GHz 12MB L2 cache, 24GB RAM, BIOS I15 5/2/2011 partnered with HP SB40C Storage Server equipped with P400 Smart Array…
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How can I force xenserver to create a full (not paravirtualized) vm?

Exact opposite of this question: How to makesure VM is in Para virtualization mode on XEN? I've got xenserver 6.2 and nowhere in the UI when creating a VM does it give me the option to use HVM and not paravirtualize by default. Any ideas?
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XenServer - Removing Blade Server from Chassis

I've got to remove one of our PowerEdge M620 blade servers from our M1000e Chassis server to look at the hardware on the server, mainly the mezzanine card installed. Will removing the blade server from the chassis remove the server from the…
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Enable SNMP XenServer 6.5

I want to enable snmp on my servers running xenserver 6.5. I've found a few articles with instructions to do so and the whole process seems pretty straight forward but my question is this - is there any harm making these changes on host with running…
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Installing XenServer 6.5 but does not boot up

I have a server with two CPUs, 64GB of RAM and a 8TB RAID 1 drive. I have successfully installed XenServer many times. But when it tries to boot for the first time, it does not boot to the new install. I have tried the following: Made sure UEFI is…
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Virtualizing physical Windows Server 2003 R2

I have a HDD that seves as dead data archive. I want to virtualize the HDD in XenServer in atempt of evade some problems (like losing the HDD itself). I tried the VMconverter from VMware (to futher convert the VM to XenServer) but it doesn't worked…
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How to reset a XenCentre terminal emulator (shows junk)

While accessing a linux virtual machine through XenCentre 6's console tab, I mistakenly cat'd binary to stdout (control characters included). Using the reset command in the terminal doesn't redraw the screen with the correct characters. I suspect…
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xenserver - xe-toolstack restart - i lost connection from xencenter

After Xencenter-toolstack restart i lost connection from xencenter I try to restart using ssh - putty following message is showing and i lost the browser access also ............ All xe command is not working and postponed on ssh ....…
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Xenserver 6.5 High Availability

I am running XenServer 6.5 and I just configured High Availability. I noticed that there is the option for start order. Is there a best practice for start order when it comes to HA? Obviously the more important VM's should be started first, but is…
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Change Xenserver 6.5 MTU

How do I go about change the MTU setting for my management interface in xenserver 6.5? Right now its set to the default 1500 but I want to increase it to 9000. For my setup I have 2 nics on each host - 1 nic provides access to our data network and…
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Best iptables configuration for a xenserver with management interface exposed to www

Which is the best iptables configuration to protect a management interface of a xenserver with management interface exposed to www? This is my actual configuration: > :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] >…
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Performance of software raid 5 in XenServer 5.5

Does anyone have hands-on experience to share with regards to software raid performance under XenServer 5.5? I've recently moved from VMware Server 1.x on Ubuntu to XenServer 5.5 hoping for an increase in performance by utilizing paravirtualization…
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Creating a XenServer VM from the Command-line

I have an issue in which I cannot understand how to create a XenServer Virtual Machine from the command-line. I have installed XenServer on an unused Tower unit, and currently SSH into it from my Mac. I chose to do so as XenCenter doesn't run on it,…
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NAUbackup - Xenserver 6.5 Backup Solutions

Has anybody every successfully used NAUBackups for xenserver 6.5 and had their backups go to a SAN storage repository? I see the default script backs up to an NFS share but I am trying to avoid NFS as backup location. I only want backups to our…
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Change Xenserver 6.5 Pool Master

I'm looking to change the pool master because my current pool master is having some hardware issues. I've disabled HA and I came across this script to change the pool master to my other server: xe pool-designate-new-master host-uuid=[uuid] My…
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