Just setup XenServer, now what

scottalanmiller

I don't want this on my workstation. Does XenServer not have a method to locally store files someplace?

Not for ISOs sadly.

DustinB3403

@JaredBusch said:

I don't want this on my workstation. Does XenServer not have a method to locally store files someplace?

Not for ISOs sadly.

Actually you can add a local ISO storage repository.

stacksofplates

@JaredBusch said:

@WingCreative said:

First thing is you're going to want to set up an ISO share so you can start launching VMs. I set up a CIFS share so that I can just put ISOs into a folder on my workstation and have XenCenter automatically be able to mount them.

I don't want this on my workstation. Does XenServer not have a method to locally store files someplace?

With Hyper-V I can just drop iso files in a folder on the C/D/E/Whatever drive.
With VMWare I can upload iso files to a folder on the the datastore.

As @DustinB3403 linked you have to add it from cli through the Dom0. Kind of stupid if you ask me.

DustinB3403

It works, and it means you don't have to have a different server just for ISO's.

CLI or GUI who cares its a 5 minute process.

Dashrender

@johnhooks said:

@JaredBusch said:

@WingCreative said:

First thing is you're going to want to set up an ISO share so you can start launching VMs. I set up a CIFS share so that I can just put ISOs into a folder on my workstation and have XenCenter automatically be able to mount them.

I don't want this on my workstation. Does XenServer not have a method to locally store files someplace?

With Hyper-V I can just drop iso files in a folder on the C/D/E/Whatever drive.
With VMWare I can upload iso files to a folder on the the datastore.

As @DustinB3403 linked you have to add it from cli through the Dom0. Kind of stupid if you ask me.

May be kinda stupid, but considering they have a Dom0, kinda makes sense. It's the same in Hyper-V. ESXi is the odd-man out here, but then, there's no Dom0 there.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

May be kinda stupid, but considering they have a Dom0, kinda makes sense. It's the same in Hyper-V. ESXi is the odd-man out here, but then, there's no Dom0 there.

KVM and ESXi are the same. HyperV and Xen are the same. ESXi 4 and earlier was like the latter.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said:

CLI or GUI who cares its a 5 minute process.

No it is not, because I could not find it. That is the problem. I ended up having to add a share on my desktop and then dealing with permission issue just to get a damn CentOS 7 VM built.

DustinB3403

You build a directory on XenServer. Either in Dom0's space or your local storage and mark is for ISOs.

mkdir -p /var/opt/xen/ISO_Store  # Or your desired path.
xe sr-create name-label=LocalISO type=iso device-config:location=/var/opt/xen/ISO_Store device-config:legacy_mode=true content-type=iso

Using WinSCP you can browse the directory or you can use CD to jump into it.

wget to download iso from that directory or upload over WinSCP directly into the share.

Rescan and build VM's from your local ISO repo.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said:

You build a directory on XenServer. Either in Dom0's space or your local storage and mark is for ISOs.

I am not arguing that it is hard and I will likely do exactly this. But I could not find it last night.

stacksofplates

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@JaredBusch said:

@WingCreative said:

First thing is you're going to want to set up an ISO share so you can start launching VMs. I set up a CIFS share so that I can just put ISOs into a folder on my workstation and have XenCenter automatically be able to mount them.

I don't want this on my workstation. Does XenServer not have a method to locally store files someplace?

With Hyper-V I can just drop iso files in a folder on the C/D/E/Whatever drive.
With VMWare I can upload iso files to a folder on the the datastore.

As @DustinB3403 linked you have to add it from cli through the Dom0. Kind of stupid if you ask me.

May be kinda stupid, but considering they have a Dom0, kinda makes sense. It's the same in Hyper-V. ESXi is the odd-man out here, but then, there's no Dom0 there.

I understand since the Dom0 doesn't have much room, but they should give you the option to mount a usb through XenCenter though.

JaredBusch

@johnhooks said:

They should give you the option to mount a usb through XenCenter though.

I don't want anything mounted from where I am running XenCenter. I want all the ISO files on local storage for fast, immediate access. That is how I have always ran both VMWare and Hyper-V

scottalanmiller

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@JaredBusch said:

@WingCreative said:

First thing is you're going to want to set up an ISO share so you can start launching VMs. I set up a CIFS share so that I can just put ISOs into a folder on my workstation and have XenCenter automatically be able to mount them.

I don't want this on my workstation. Does XenServer not have a method to locally store files someplace?

With Hyper-V I can just drop iso files in a folder on the C/D/E/Whatever drive.
With VMWare I can upload iso files to a folder on the the datastore.

As @DustinB3403 linked you have to add it from cli through the Dom0. Kind of stupid if you ask me.

May be kinda stupid, but considering they have a Dom0, kinda makes sense. It's the same in Hyper-V. ESXi is the odd-man out here, but then, there's no Dom0 there.

I understand since the Dom0 doesn't have much room, but they should give you the option to mount a usb through XenCenter though.

They don't, I believe, because they want the XC interface to be easy for people working with pool, which is the majority of their base. Using a USB drive on a single host makes a lot of sense when you have only one host but when you have a lot of them it would potentially get really confusing.