XenServer 7 has launched!
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Upgrade process
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Upgraded almost all my systems today
We released a new version of
xo-serverearlier (~12h ago) to enhance Dundee support.Also tested XO VM continuous replication every minute on Dundee Beta 3 last week, worked like a charm during all the tests (5 days). XenServer 6.5 failed after 15 min
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@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 has launched!:
The root partition is now 18GB!
Damn!
Now I don't feel bad using that 32GB for my production system.
And you thought I was crazy to do a 32GB USB stick!!
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@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 has launched!:
The root partition is now 18GB!
Damn!
Now I don't feel bad using that 32GB for my production system.
Oh bother, will it even install on a 16GB stick? (The ones I currently have 6.5 running on.)
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P.S. Very exciting!!!!
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When you say
"The condition needed to do that is to have your local SR (created during the install of previous XS version) to be empty. This way, the XenServer 7 install could use this space for re-partinioning the whole drive in a proper way."
Is that also true if the local SR is not on the boot device?
For example how many of us have XS booting off USB but the local SR on a separate array?
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I'm not sure. I discovered a lot about the upgrade process just today. I'd love to have more input/doc from Citrix before the D-day, but you know, it's hard to be in the plans of a big corp
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@olivier said
I'm not sure. I discovered a lot about the upgrade process just today. I'd love to have more input/doc from Citrix before the D-day, but you know, it's hard to be in the plans of a big corp
I'm sure there will be a lot of testing here at ML.
My biggest "hope" is that it will allow me to live migrate to my test server. That will make things so much easier for me. But, that's just being selfish.
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SMB support! About time. Only a couple weeks after i got 6.5sp1 installed on my 2 hosts. Burining to dvd now.
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@momurda Your hosts have DVD drives? Are they from 2000? =P
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18GB?....
Well, I guess I need to install onto a 32GB stick then.
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@aaronstuder
The dvd is for my test lab! that is just an old i7 970 with 24gb ddr3, an old 40gb laptop hdd for OS and 2 2TB seagate drives for storage. I suppose i could have used a usb stick. -
@BRRABill said in XenServer 7 has launched!:
When you say
"The condition needed to do that is to have your local SR (created during the install of previous XS version) to be empty. This way, the XenServer 7 install could use this space for re-partinioning the whole drive in a proper way."
Is that also true if the local SR is not on the boot device?
For example how many of us have XS booting off USB but the local SR on a separate array?
I have this problem, I don't have a second XS to migrate to, so I need to do an inplace upgrade.
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@Dashrender said
I have this problem, I don't have a second XS to migrate to, so I need to do an inplace upgrade.
My second XS is just a desktop level machine. Works perfectly.
In fact, has been running production VMs (since the SSD array issue) with nary a hiccup for weeks.
I am hoping I can upgrade it, then live migrate everything off my production server (since XS7 is supposed to support processor masking better), then upgrade the production server, then migrate everything back.
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Our XS stack is just about to be brought up at the NTG Lab in Los Angeles, so looks like we are going to get to have them do an XS7 install before we bring it online!
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Has anyone found a feature set PDF of the new functionality and improvements for XS7?
Looking on xenserver.org I can only find the 6.5 release information.
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@DustinB3403 http://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-release-notes.pdf
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Auto-updating Windows drivers, the Direct Inspect API and gobs of GPU updates are the big winers, I think.
