Xen Orchestra - a web solution for XenServer
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@johnhooks We'll re-create it for multiple reasons:
- we stacked a lot of features inside something not planned for that
- so from a dev point of view, the code is messy
- from a user point of view, it's not really coherent everywhere
- we got perf issues for big infrastructure (1500+ VMs)
Thanks to our experience now, we can rebuild it from scratch with a LOT more in mind. It allows:
- a nice refactoring from the dev point of view
- using React+Flux for a fully component oriented software
- thinking "components" is far far better for dev but also for building generic and powerful UIs
- display only what's important
An example for the VM view:
And with a legend:
Be advised, that's a draft; we already made some changes since.
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That does look nice. It's not going to be that font though is it?
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@johnhooks haha nope, that's something designed with Paper, IIRC (by my associate, who is ergonomist and spend our IT budget in Apple iStuff hardware
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Should be out tomorrow if we got no QA surprise in the release process: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/continuous-delta-backup/
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@olivier said:
Should be out tomorrow if we got no QA surprise in the release process: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/continuous-delta-backup/
I'm very excited to play with Continuous Delta Backups!
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We packaged a binary for offline merging into XOA. You'll have to build it yourself because our version is not portable so far.
Clone https://github.com/rubiojr/vhd-util-convert,
makeand put thevhd-utilbinary insidexo-server/bin/We didn't had enough time to make a portable stuff for 4.12
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/teasing:
edit: blog post is out: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-vm-continuous-replication/
Currently in QA.
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cd xo-server/bin git clone https://github.com/rubiojr/vhd-util-convert sudo apt-get -y uuid-dev build-essential cd vhd-util-convert make ls cp vhd-util ~/xo-server/binAppears to work, has the WebGui been updated with a new Backup title for Delta or no?
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No new thing in the web UI for continuous delta, it's automatic. If you are on
next-release, it should already work now.edit: it's the same job/backup thing. So restart after update, and re-run your backup jobs. You'll see the oldest delta merged in the full.
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eh, I've completely forgotten how to jump to the next-release....
Not enough coffee.
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Don't forget to copy the
vhd-utilbinary directly inxo-server/bin. Thevhd-util-convertfolder is useless after themake! -
Think I got it.
Have to test. Does that look correct?
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Yep.
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Due to problem with XAPI and metadata import, I decided it's more safe to write ourselve a solution to avoid use of those metadata. XAPI team told me that the code around this is not in a good shape...
So postponed for Monday. Sorry guys, there is some stuff we can't guess before we got trouble inside XAPI ^^
edit: at least our QA pass is useful ^^
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Maybe time to update XAPI
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@mlnews Problem is also in next XenServer version. So we'll have better luck to write our own solution/workaround for this!
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@olivier question for you.
I Migrated a VM from a shit-box XenServer, and it's running on the other host, but Xen Orchestra doesn't see this VM on the Host.
Any ideas?
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So here is a system that I've been running with the Continuous Backup functionality.
Which I scheduled to run every 5 minutes. I would say it works unless the fulls in the 3rd picture should be completely gone.
I know the first picture says, "every hour on the hour" it's simply because I changed the frequency in which the backup runs.
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I think because it was a previous delta job, it didn't modified some old files (I'm not certain of the behavior when changing in the middle of a previous delta job, I didn't personally coded this part ^^)
So is it still working or not?
If not, delete the old backup files, it will re-create the right things accordingly.
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@olivier I'll purge them and have them run every hour.
Will post some new picture tomorrow from home.
