@Kelly said in XenServer:

@Alket_tux said in XenServer:

@Kelly i have seen the feature matrix, and that's why i asked.. because there are two editions in feature matrix.. but @DustinB3403 said above that the matrix includes support.. is this correct or not?

The matrix is from Citrix, not XenServer. It is really confusing terminology.

Standard and community are the same. The only difference is standard has support from Citrix.

Enterprise and the features listed there are only available to those with a paid support subscription for that version.

The codebase may be identical, but you can't access things like GPU virtualization without the Enterprise version.

Even more confusing is that those things are add one rather than unlocks... so it isn't really xenServer doing it.

Maybe problem with noowners mount option?
https://www.barryodonovan.com/2012/12/12/apple-os-x-as-an-nfs-server-with-linux-clients

@Dashrender said in XenServer 7.0 issues on HP Elite 8100, 6.5 Flies.:

I have a HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF as my XS 7.0 test box. Works great!

I don't see any issue with a lab box being PC based.

Yeah. My "oh s***" box is a Dell T3500. It stood in for the server while it got upgraded to XS7 from XS6.

KVM with Virtmanager.
Centos latest is my preferred KVM host.
And Fedora LXDE Spin is my preferred Virt-Manager choice, I use it from inside Windows using Virtualbox.

Cause it resembles the old ESXi Philosophy with Vsphere C# client
And you can do whatever you want with it, and for free. Especially when you use virt IO drivers for network and disk, you get nearly identical bare metal speeds.

But sadly its lacking other tools to allow users to connect and use the VM, you will have to do this from inside the VM like RDP and VNC.

@DustinB3403 said in Installing XenServer 7 on VirtualBox - No Disk with Sufficient Space was Found:

@scottalanmiller Alternatively you can install XS6.5 on the smaller partition and then upgrade.

This however has downfalls.

There is also a way to install XS7 on a smaller partition, but Citrix does not recommend it.

AND WE KNOW TO FOLLOW WHAT THEY WANT! 😉

Staying up to date on the updates is pretty critical for XO. They update things frequently. You'll be running this update script a lot.

@Dashrender said in XS 7 or HyperV 2016:

@FATeknollogee said in XS 7 or HyperV 2016:

@Dashrender said in XS 7 or HyperV 2016:

Wouldn't that mean exposing your XS to the internet? I suppose not if you lock the inbound ports to the IP of the XO, where ever it's hosted. So from a management point of view, that's great, but I don't think most would end up using the backup portion in that situation, soooo...

How is this different from using (as an example) the built-in replication tool in Hyper-V? Either way you still need the 'net?

I've never tested this, so I am working from an assumption. But upon the assumption here is my explanation.

You have a XS host in your office in Dallas, 100 Mb internet connection.

The MSP has a XO VM running in a hosted DC in Cali that's used to manage the XS host. How does the data flow to the backup target? Does it flow through the XO system then to the target? I know that Veeam works this way. Assuming it does flow through the XO box, the data would flow out the 100 Mb connection to the XO, and then to where ever the backup target is. Assuming that's at the customer site, that would also be on that single 100 Mb connection.

Again - I admit to an assumption here - if my assumption is wrong, please don't be an ass about it, just inform me, and the rest here.

So with that assumption, assuming you want your first backup target to be onsite, then you'd either need a separate backup solution, or another copy of XS locally that runs backups inside the network.

Actually, no, Veeam does not work that way.

By default, the paid version of Veeam installs proxy stuff on each host as well as the box that Veeam is installed on. When a backup job runs, it chooses the best place to run through each time unless you specify a specific option in the backup job.

I have windows 10 on xs7, the issue are drivers are still in beta.

@Danp said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!:

@Dashrender said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!:

The only cost here would be the drive. Clonezilla is free, the use of the PC is free (of course that user is not ideal, so I guess there is cost there 😉 )

The owner is currently out of the country... use his desktop! 😁

If AD works. Lol

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer install on SuperMicro: software RAID question:

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer install on SuperMicro: software RAID question:

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer install on SuperMicro: software RAID question:

I remember there was a previous thread about a USB stick, but that involved physically removing the stick & making a copy.
Whatever happened to having a "live" 2nd copy?

You can still make a copy of a SATA DOM to a USB stick.

Can you automate this ?

Not realistically, no.

That's new to me. Posting a post about Octoblu itself now.

@frodooftheshire said in XenServer7 time sync DC/PDC emulator:

@coliver I configurd XEN to pull time from us.pool.ntp.org, and I guess I'll just go into the primary DC and tell W32time to sync with the same server

I'm trying to recall but @JaredBusch has had issues with the US NTP pool. He may be able to comment further. Otherwise this should work fine.

@MattSpeller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@scottalanmiller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@MattSpeller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@scottalanmiller said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

@DustinB3403 said in Shadow Protect and Disk IOPS usage..:

The read usage on this system is insane for what it is normally doing.

Even a tiny SW install we recommend some hefty resources and dedicated SSDs. You definitely just figured out the problem. Had you led with this we could have told you instantly what the issue was.

Our rather beefy SW install runs on rust just fine. Not even a half decent rust array. Old junk.

I'm surprised. Even when ours was tiny we gave it 100,000 IOPS and it remained slow.

¯\(ツ)/¯

There's only 3 of us in IT here. I suspect more concurrent users would kill it.

We had probably ten or fifteen and loads of tickets. But that isn't that much of a jump, I wouldn't think.

@travisdh1 said in Installing apcupsd on XenServer 7:

@BRRABill said in Installing apcupsd on XenServer 7:

@travisdh1 said

NUT should work with any model UPS, not just APC like apcupsd.

@JaredBusch said apcupsd works with other UPSes as well.

That was my first question. 🙂

Huh, I'll have to give it another look then.

It is designed for APC, but you can use almost any UPS via USB if you set it to generic.

@olivier said in XenServer hyperconverged:

We validated our first provider: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xosan-on-10gbps-io/

Next? Probably a hardware provider 🙂

Congrats

I never signed up for that.

I seemed to remember a few people saying "hell no am I providing them that info" ... so stayed away.

Let me know how things go for you with that service... Maybe I will sign up.

@NetworkNerd said in New book arrived:

@scottalanmiller said in New book arrived:

I love IT books, but the right topic is important.

I really enjoyed the Mastering vSphere series. I have not read the one on version 6, but the ones on 5 and 5.5 were rather enjoyable.

Because 50% of the book was about how to handle that SSO mess? 😉 SCNR

@Dashrender said in Running Xen Server from a USB Drive.:

@BRRABill said in Running Xen Server from a USB Drive.:

If I was doing it over again from scratch, I'd probably not use USB.

That being said, I have not had any issues thus far.

Are you redirecting logs?

Yes.