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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

      But the entire conversation was based on him being a consultant. So I immediately started thinking about him weighing his wallet.

      Ah, likely wanting to move from making money selling XenServer to selling VMware now that XenServer is fully free. Makes sense. Hate to say it, but someone willing to lie so brazenly might have been willing to initiate a disaster to light a fire under management to spend some money with him in other places.

      XenMotion doesn't lose anyone a million dollars, just doesn't happen. But an IT Consultant wielding XenMotion judiciously might be able to find a way to leverage it to initiate some major downtime.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch nothing.

        Just a random conversation with a random IT consultant. He just reminded me of you.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
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          On a separate topic, is xenmotion open source as well?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

            On a separate topic, is xenmotion open source as well?

            Yes, it is just part of XenServer.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403
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              Just confirming, just doing some reading up on it, two host setup at a minimum.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

                Just confirming, just doing some reading up on it, two host setup at a minimum.

                Of course, since XenMotion is moving a workload from one box to another. Anything "one to another" requires two things.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  Like "handing French Fries to a friend" requires two people.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller of course 2 host minimum. My point was about it being open source /free.

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                      Jason Banned @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

                      his wife about how he has 12 emails in the past 20 minutes

                      That's something to talk about? that's way less than my normal amount of email.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Jason
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                        @Jason said in Citrix paid support:

                        @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

                        his wife about how he has 12 emails in the past 20 minutes

                        That's something to talk about? that's way less than my normal amount of email.

                        Seriously, that's not very much!

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                          Jason Banned
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                          What Citrix product are we talking about? Xenserver? It's been open source for many years now.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Jason
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                            @Jason said in Citrix paid support:

                            What Citrix product are we talking about? Xenserver? It's been open source for many years now.

                            yeah, that confused me too. XenServer itself has been OS for a while and is built on stuff that was always OS. So the discussion would only make sense about XA or XD, but does not appear to have been as XenMotion would only apply to XS.

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
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                              Yeah the conversation was about how he had to go back to work to continue work on a migration from xenserver (and xenmotion as a tool) to esxi.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

                                Yeah the conversation was about how he had to go back to work to continue work on a migration from xenserver (and xenmotion as a tool) to esxi.

                                Even more money probably (just guessing of course) going into his pockets for this "error" with XM that only the IT consultant or operator could have ultimately caused.

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
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                                  Another question, how is it that XA and XD aren't open source. Or are they, and just not commonly used?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                    @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

                                    Another question, how is it that XA and XD aren't open source. Or are they, and just not commonly used?

                                    They are not. How would they be? They have no association or history with XS.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403
                                      last edited by DustinB3403

                                      I thought they were associated, they aren't?

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                        @DustinB3403 said in Citrix paid support:

                                        I thought they were associated, they aren't?

                                        Nope, XA is Citrix MetaFrame from the 1990s. Has nothing to do with virtualization at all.

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller I didn't know that....

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Ah, are you thinking because of the name? When Citrix acquired the right to the name Xen, when the virtualization frenzy was at its peak, they wanted people to foolishly think that all kinds of things were virtualization that weren't (like cloud today) so they added the name Xen to all kinds of existing products that were totally not related to virtualization or Xen or XenServer in any way.

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