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    Dell dropping Citrix XenServer as a supported Product

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Is my math wrong? 2020:11 - 2016:5 = 4years and 6 months yet of support? That's 4.5 years on the nose.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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        @johnhooks said in Dell dropping Citrix XenServer as a supported Product:

        @scottalanmiller said in Dell dropping Citrix XenServer as a supported Product:

        November 30, 2020 on your chart matches me chart and is 4.5 years away.

        Ya I missed the November part. I was counting exclusively.

        Ah ha. My chart showed 2020, just the very end of it 🙂

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        • stacksofplatesS
          stacksofplates
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          Still though, 4.5 years isn't that long. Considering it too almost 2 just to get from XS 6.2 to 6.5. But all this is moot anyway. I didn't realize Dundee was built on 7.

          They probably packaged manually before so I'm guessing not much has changed, it's just you can get Xen from the repos any more with RHEL. You have to do some work.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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            @johnhooks said in Dell dropping Citrix XenServer as a supported Product:

            Still though, 4.5 years isn't that long. Considering it too almost 2 just to get from XS 6.2 to 6.5. But all this is moot anyway. I didn't realize Dundee was built on 7.

            7 on 7 🙂 There is really no way that they could not jump to 7 with the 7 release of XS.

            Don't forget that the stagnation in the 6.2 era was because of the Citrix to Linux handoff.

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill
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              This is a blog post discussing their choice of OS:

              http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/introducing-xenserver-dundee.html

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              • DustinB3403D
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                I'm curious if we'll be able to perform a system upgrade when 7 drops, or if a clean installation is the only viable option.

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said in Dell dropping Citrix XenServer as a supported Product:

                  I'm curious if we'll be able to perform a system upgrade when 7 drops, or if a clean installation is the only viable option.

                  They have mentioned that upgrades will be possible. But that XS only know about XS configurations, so third party software will not be migrated with it.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
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                    @coliver

                    WOOT that's a big plus.

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                    • BRRABillB
                      BRRABill @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 said

                      WOOT that's a big plus.

                      If you don't have any custom stuff. Which I do not. So WOOT!

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                      • coliverC
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                        I wonder what the VM migration process will be. If you have have 6.5 and 7.0 in the same pool then installing a clean hypervisor and Dom0 would make the most sense.

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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403
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                          I wonder if you could rolling pool upgrade to 7.0

                          I wonder how this would effect @halizard configurations...

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
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                            Just so it's out there if anyone would like to test out the Alpha release here is a link.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                              @DustinB3403 said in Dell dropping Citrix XenServer as a supported Product:

                              Just so it's out there if anyone would like to test out the Alpha release here is a link.

                              It's the Beta 3, not the Alpha.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller Yeah I noticed that after I posted, just didnt care to update.

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