XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
Questions tagged [xenserver]
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Xenserver 6.5 Backup Solutions
I'm looking for a way to backup up VM's in my Xenserver 6.5 environment. I'm open to scripts or installing some tools/clients but it need to opensource. We want to backup to our Dell MD3660i SAN as well since we have a 20TB disk group dedicated as a…
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XenServer has two processor, but only one is visible
I have a pool of two identical HP DL 360 G7 (dual processor Intel Xeon X5650), with two processors installed (the BIOS show both), running XenServer 6.5. Intel says that this processor has six cores (12 threads - but I disabled…
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Elieser Topassi
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XenServer, 32-Bit VM's cant exceed 64GB RAM in total
XenServer 6.5 SP1 - 128 GB RAM on Host
Several 32-Bit Linux VM's are deployed, most of them are provisioned with 4 GB or 8 GB of RAM. Once the summarized RAM usage of those 32-Bit VM's reaches 64 GB, no further 32-Bit VM can be started and/or no…
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Raid 50 on Dell Perc H700 Integrated Resynching state
I have Raid 50 configured on a Xenserver host with a Perc H700 card and a few weeks ago, replaced a disk which had failed. The raid had rebuilt and I am now checking the status of the array via omreport:
# omreport storage vdisk
Controller PERC…
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W Khan
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Is it possible to transfer OpenVZ VPS image to XEN platform?
I'm having a memory related issue with my vps on openvz platform and I guess that my hosting provider is overselling RAM. So, I'm thinking to move on a xen platform since ram cannot be oversold but I don't want to re-configure everything from the…
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Mina Hafzalla
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XenServer libguestfs
I am using XenServer 6.5 and I want to mount, modify disk partitions of VHD disk format created by XenServer.
For this purpose I need to get libguestfs running as libguestfshas the required features. I have used libguestfs on KVM.
Now XenServer…
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XerServer 6.5: Can't start xapi after Power outage
I'm currently testing XenServer 6.5 to be used on the production environment of my company. However, whenever I test its behaviour when facing an unexpected shutdown (i.e.: power outage), xapi service won't start anymore. Trying to bring it back…
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xenserver host lost all storage connections
I have inherited a xenserver setup running 6.0. There is a storage pool set up with two host servers (a bad idea to start with I gather), 8 vms and several SRs. I recently had one of the hosts fail and now it can't see any of the SRs that used to…
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Thomas Gamble
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XenServer 6.5 bare metal randomly rebooting and hanging
I am pretty new to XenServer so it may just be something silly causing this.
Some background first. I have 2 instances of XenServer running on my network. I have an older horsepower server (quadsocket amd opterons 8224s, 64gb of ram) that doesnt…
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citrix xenserver 6.5 can't get vm's public network
Can't get my vm's guest out connection..!
Premised: I alreay use xenserver on a test server dellt310 with two ethernet card that works perfectly, but now... ->
I have an hetzner dedicated server with only one ethernet card and two public ip's in…
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user205124
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Server 2012 R2 System Disk Filling
This is a bit of a strange issue - the usual troubleshooting steps don't seem to apply.
On a XenServer 6.2 host (with SP1), I have a guest VM that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 that functions as a file/print server. The VM is about a year old.…
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SteadH
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XenServer 6.2 DHCP Setup
I have a XenServer 6.2 running on a dedicated OVH Server.
For this dedicated server I have 2 additional IP blocks.
Whenever I setup a new VM (mostly CentOS 6.6) i have to skip the network configuration part and do it manually after.
Is there any way…
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Andreas Hinderberger
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Attaching a hard drive with ESXi VMs to XenServer
I am testing XenServer 6.5 on a single host, and as a test I have exported and imported a few VMs in OVF format from my existing ESXi server. All good so far, but I was wondering: I have a hard drive full of ESXi VMs, is there any way to attach it…
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Enable IOMMU for Xenserver
I have installed Xenserver 6.2 in my machine with ASUS A58M-E motherboard and AMD A8-6600K APU (CPU). Now even if the IOMMU is enabled in the BIOS, Xenserver is reporting that IOMMU is not enabled and thus Virtual Machines cannot take advantage of…
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XenServer 6.5.0 tapdisk experienced an error
I have just deployed XenServer 6.5.0 on a physical box. I connect to it with XenCenter client. I am able to create a VM, but when i start it, I get the following error: tapdisk experienced an error. The server has SAS harddrives (RAID 0) and the CPU…
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