XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
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XenServer Express/Enterprise and Citrix Essential
I'm confused with XenServer... I plan to buy a Dell R710 server and run XenServer on it. Dell can sell me a XenServer license with the server, I can choose between XenServer Express and Xen Server Enterprise. When I look at Citrix Web Site they talk…
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Missing /bin directory
I have Citrix XenServer 4.1 running. On this I have Debian Etch which is used as our web development server. I have Virtualmin set-up to manage the domains (MySQL, Apache, etc.). The server is only accessible from outside via HTTP, no SSH or FTP.…
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Accessing IPMI address
Currently if I want to know the server IPMI address, I will have to go to the SBIOS and check under BMC.
Is there a way to get the IPMI address from inside a virtual machine ?
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No space to snapshot on xenserver - Catch 22 to move the VMs
I am trying to move some VMs from one Xenserver onto another one but am stuck in a catch 22 situation. I have 3 VMs running on this server all on one storage repository. I don't have space to snapshot my smallest server (need 250GB, have 91GB),…
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XenServer 6.5 upgrade: NVIDIA GRID K1 gives "PAT Configuration unsupported"
We have two Supermicro SYS2027GR-TR2 servers that were running XenServer 6.2 SP1. Each system has one NVIDIA GRID K1 video card installed. We just upgraded the servers to XenServer 6.5 by doing a clean install, and upon restarting and installing the…
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XenServer HDD space
I have IBM xServer system with following HDD config.
Total six drives.
1st two drives in Raid1 (270 GB Usable space) & other four in RAID5 (835 GB usable space). Its built-in hardware raid card.
During installation I selected sda (RAID1 drive) as…
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XenServer 6.2 not forwarding ports to VMs
I have a XenServer 6.2 with OVH with 4 additional IP addresses.
For 2 VMs that are installed all is working fine.
I created now a new VM with CentOS 6.6, added the virtual MAC OVH assigned me for the IP and setup the network interface accordingly.
I…
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Andreas Hinderberger
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Adding "VMs by Software Product" to XenCenter's view menu
XenCenter has a "VMs by Operating System" dropdown menu.
I would like to have a similar menu "VMs by Software Product" which displays VMs grouped by certain software products and releases. Each of our VMs runs one major software product, and the…
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External USB drive on xen windows guest
I have an external USB 2Tb drive I'm trying to use with a xen guest.
Xen Center 6.1 sees the drive in the removable storage repository and I can assign it to a guest.
But the guest (tested Server-2012 and Windws7-x64) see it as an uninitialized disk…
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How can I perform mass provisioning of Debian Guest VMs on XenServer?
There are a number of tools for provisioning physical and virtual servers, but I can't see a well documented solution for provisioning XenServer Debian guests, apart from using XenCenter itself.
With XenCenter guest VM provisioning, we could create…
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Andrew R
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xen - server won't rejoin pool after patch/boot
Have a pool of 3 servers. All are Xen v6.2. Applied latest patches this morning in the usual fashion:
Patch pool master
Move VMs off of slave machine 1 and restart it
Repeat with slave 2 and then master
This has worked previously.
This morning…
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Xen 6.2 - how to free up space?
I have an HA pool of 3 Xen 6.2 machines. On each the root volume is > 90% full. I've updated the logrotate scripts to keep /var/log clean but have found that lots of space is taken up by /var/patch. In this folder are all the files (by UUID)…
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booting straight into xen VM
I have a need to convert a bare-metal machine to a virtual-machine (via VMware converter). This part has been done successfully. I have then been asked to convert the vmware image to a XEN hvm.
The client wants to install their brew of xen…
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Ryan
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How to block a VM from accessing other machines on network - XenServer
This might be a little far fetched and might not be possible.
I have a virtual machine that will have files on that I don't want people to be able to transfer off - they are allowed access, I just want them staying put with no copying. With that in…
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XenServer Hotfix XS62ESP1005 - Which device drivers to update?
I am updating my XenServer 6.2 installation with all the latest hotfixes and according to the notes I need to update my device drivers before restarting the server. When I go to the page with the device drivers on…
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