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

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XenServer, mapping SAN LUN to VDI

I have a few XenServer 6.2/6.5 hosts, and ZFS SAN datastore, providing iSCSI exports for VM storage. It's not an optimal solution to export huge 1-2 Tb LUN as XenServer LVMoiSCSI SR, because: a) no thin provisioning on XenServer storage b)…
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Xenserver 6.5 LSI MegaRAID

Is there a package available to install the MegaCLI on XenServer6.5? For 6.5 there is this [1] but 6.5 has another kernel. XenServer 6.5 is based on CentOS6.5 (right?), so I also tried the kmod-megaraid_sas-06.806.08.00_el6.5-1.x86_64.rpm but that's…
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RAID 10 Stripe Size for XenServer

Below is our current server configuration. In a few weeks I will be simulating a disaster recovery by installing 5 new disks (1 hot spare) and restoring all VMs from the backups. Will I gain anything by changing the RAID stripe size to something…
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XenServer 6.2: reattach SR but all disks have no description

I have recently reinstalled XenServer on my server. All the VHD files were stored on my NAS via NFS, so I re-added the NFS SR after reinstallation. However, all my VMs seem to be missing, and the VHDs in the SR are "blank" - no description, no name,…
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XenServer 6.2 VM 100% CPU and 100% memory usage and won't boot

I had this problem today after a power failure. I had 2 vms and one of them won't boot and was using 100% of CPU and 100% of memory. Since it was very dificult to solve (at least for me) I want to detail here the steps I've made to fix it, mixing…
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Win2K P2V on XenServer 6.2: VM unable to start

I'm trying to virtualize (P2V) a very old Win2K server (an IBM x345) with related storage: a main C: drive, running on top of a RAID 5 logical-array served by an internal ServeRAID HW controller and related internal HDD); two distinct additional…
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XenServer Configuration Allowing Private Network to Access HyperVisor

Within Citrix XenServer...I want an internal network, not dependent on a physical NIC, that only the HyperVisor and virtual machines can see. I believe I want to implement a "Single-Server Private Network." How do the VMs communicated with the…
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Creating a Xenserver 6.2 pool

I would appreciate a bit of guidance with the following task. I have a standalone Xenserver 6.2 that is running 2 Windows 2012 VMs. This server is connected via NFS to a NAS server. I recently bought 2 new servers as well as another NAS server and…
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How to incrementally backup XenServer VMs

I am looking for a way to backup XenServer (or XAPI) VMs incrementally. backup just changed data every time. without performance penalty, slowing down the server after the backup is done (snapshots do that, right?) with possibility to go back in…
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Install xenserver on iscsi target

Is is know that Xen Server is based on CentOS, and it is fact that CentOS can be installed on an ISCSI target flawlessly, but I wanted to install Xen server on an ISCSI target I couldn't find a way. I already tried the latest version of xen server…
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Boot xen server through ipxe

I'm want install Xen Server 6.2 though ipxe, I tried different configurations, no luck making to work until now. I found some may example to boot from pxe using TFTP server, and here is an example: default xenserver-auto label xenserver-auto …
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Diskless XenServer 6.2

I'm a bit suspicious since I cannot find relevant recent information on this. I am wanting to boot a diskless XenServer version 6.2 (the server... not the installer). I have an Intel Pro 1000 ET NIC that supports iSCSI. I am able to intall…
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XenServer 6.2 changing mtu

So I've looked around for a way to change the MTU of interfaces on XenServer 6.2, but can't find anything that works for me ... One method spoke about changing the ifcnfg-intX files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory, but the files just…
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xenserver snapshot chain too long

I've been running a XenServer 6.2 server for a month or so and recently one of my VMs will not perform snapshots. I receive the error "The snapshot chain is too long" although I have removed all of the snapshots. I've found similar problems…
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How to Reclaim Space from XenServer?

I found that the XenCenter storage tab claims there is 1096.6 GB used of 1107.7 GB total (708.5 GB allocated). It appears that some space has been eaten and not released. The SMLog shows: [13816] 2014-03-28 15:12:00.881524 Got sm-config for…
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