What Are You Doing Right Now
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 Installing XenServer for the first time 
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 @alex.olynyk said: Installing XenServer for the first time Hell yes! You will likely enjoy the benefits of it several fold compared to the competition. 
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 @DustinB3403 I played with free ESXi a while back and thought it was time to try something new 
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 Free ESXi should only ever be used to realize why you shouldn't be using ESXi.  It's so gutted that it's worthless in every market share... 
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 @DustinB3403 said: @alex.olynyk said: Installing XenServer for the first time Hell yes! You will likely enjoy the benefits of it several fold compared to the competition. Several fold? I haven't found that to be the case. Other than not paying the $600 essentials license, and $125/yr for new versions, XenServer hasn't been OMG I can't believe I didn't move before. Now, if I had been on Hyper-V this whole time.. yeah I'd be happy as a pig in sh*t, single pain to control, see everything, just like VMWare - yes please! 
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 @Dashrender said: @DustinB3403 said: @alex.olynyk said: Installing XenServer for the first time Hell yes! You will likely enjoy the benefits of it several fold compared to the competition. Several fold? I haven't found that to be the case. Other than not paying the $600 essentials license, and $125/yr for new versions, XenServer hasn't been OMG I can't believe I didn't move before. Now, if I had been on Hyper-V this whole time.. yeah I'd be happy as a pig in sh*t, single pain to control, see everything, just like VMWare - yes please! Oh you're just sour.. 
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 @DustinB3403 said: @Dashrender said: @DustinB3403 said: @alex.olynyk said: Installing XenServer for the first time Hell yes! You will likely enjoy the benefits of it several fold compared to the competition. Several fold? I haven't found that to be the case. Other than not paying the $600 essentials license, and $125/yr for new versions, XenServer hasn't been OMG I can't believe I didn't move before. Now, if I had been on Hyper-V this whole time.. yeah I'd be happy as a pig in sh*t, single pain to control, see everything, just like VMWare - yes please! Oh you're just sour.. LOL - don't get me wrong - XenServer is fine - I've had no problems with it since I stood it up 2 weeks ago. In fact I'm configuring a production server in it right now. and if you have already spent the $600 on Essentials - I don't really see a reason to change (especially if your backups work directly at the VM level and don't support an agent). But if you're standing up something new - yeah, you should definitely check out XS. 
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 XenServer installed. How do I connect to it? 
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 You'll need XenCenter to get started, open a web browser from your system and enter the IP address of the XS server to download the client. 
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 Connected to host with XenCenter. I have an ISO on my laptop I want to use to create a VM. I dont see an option to browse my local drive. Am I missing something? 
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 You need to create an ISO repository, then you can access it, and create VM's. 
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 @alex.olynyk said: Installing XenServer for the first time And the clouds parted, the sun shone and the angels sang. 
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 @alex.olynyk said: Connected to host with XenCenter. I have an ISO on my laptop I want to use to create a VM. I dont see an option to browse my local drive. Am I missing something? No local drives. Just share out a folder from your local machine for now and throw the ISO in there. Works just fine. Once you are in production you'll want a little NFS NAS for that. But it's for install ISOs so anything is just fine. 
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 About to head out to do the SW unplugged marketer panel dealy.... I mean, headed out for free food and booze.... 
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 @RojoLoco This ones for me....this ones for my dead homies 
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 @RojoLoco said: About to head out to do the SW unplugged marketer panel dealy.... I mean, headed out for free food and booze.... have fun. 
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 I need to get this for Bentley. It was my favorite book when I was a kid. 
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 Was just writing a blog entry and realized that I lived in a full DOZEN places during my 30s. Eleven unique ones, one I moved "back" to four years after having left it. A DOZEN!! 
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 I thought four places in two years was bad 
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 I might get one of these instead of the Raspberry Pi 3 http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/odroid-c2-bests-raspberry-pi-3-in-several-ways/ Whoa never mind. Shipping is $16. 






