XenServer 7.1 is out...
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BTW: has anyone actually upgraded to 7.1 yet?
I was on their forums recently and it seems as though people are having a lot of issues with it.
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I am on 7.1, no issues so far except i had to contact unitrends and get a beta patch installed. Didnt read the patch notes for the UEB appliance, 7.1 isnt supported yet.
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@momurda said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
I am on 7.1, no issues so far except i had to contact unitrends and get a beta patch installed. Didnt read the patch notes for the UEB appliance, 7.1 isnt supported yet.
Did you upgrade? And if so, from which version?
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I did an upgrade from 6.5 to 7.1. I had moved all my vdi off local XS host storage before the upgrade. One of the hosts upgraded to the new partition format, one still has the less than v7.0 partition layout. I am going to fix that soon.
One of the good things about XS is that designating new master is easy. Reinstalling a host is easy. Rejoining a pool and getting its settings is easy. -
@momurda said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
I did an upgrade from 6.5 to 7.1. I had moved all my vdi off local XS host storage before the upgrade. One of the hosts upgraded to the new partition format, one still has the less than v7.0 partition layout. I am going to fix that soon.
One of the good things about XS is that designating new master is easy. Reinstalling a host is easy. Rejoining a pool and getting its settings is easy.That is what I am looking to do.
Why did the one host not upgrade to the new layout? That is what seems to be happening to a lot of people on the XS forum. The installation seems to freeze at the partitioning section, and leaves the XS inoperable. Looks like a bug, maybe.
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Not sure why it didnt. Perhaps there was an orphaned/hidden vdi leftover from some point in the past.
I just checked to make sure it was able to host vms, then moved on. Reinstalling a host takes about 10 minutes, ill get around to it eventually. -
@momurda said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
Not sure why it didnt. Perhaps there was an orphaned/hidden vdi leftover from some point in the past.
I just checked to make sure it was able to host vms, then moved on. Reinstalling a host takes about 10 minutes, ill get around to it eventually.Yeah it is relatively painless, though always makes me nervous!
I am considering moving off the USB onto a RAID array for boot. (I have a spare one sitting unused.)
Backup VDI info. Reinstall XS to RAID array. Restore VDI info.
Should be relatively painless.
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@BRRABill said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
@momurda said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
Not sure why it didnt. Perhaps there was an orphaned/hidden vdi leftover from some point in the past.
I just checked to make sure it was able to host vms, then moved on. Reinstalling a host takes about 10 minutes, ill get around to it eventually.Yeah it is relatively painless, though always makes me nervous!
I am considering moving off the USB onto a RAID array for boot. (I have a spare one sitting unused.)
Backup VDI info. Reinstall XS to RAID array. Restore VDI info.
Should be relatively painless.
You can avoid a lot of headaches by not installing XenServer on USB.
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@black3dynamite said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
@BRRABill said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
@momurda said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
Not sure why it didnt. Perhaps there was an orphaned/hidden vdi leftover from some point in the past.
I just checked to make sure it was able to host vms, then moved on. Reinstalling a host takes about 10 minutes, ill get around to it eventually.Yeah it is relatively painless, though always makes me nervous!
I am considering moving off the USB onto a RAID array for boot. (I have a spare one sitting unused.)
Backup VDI info. Reinstall XS to RAID array. Restore VDI info.
Should be relatively painless.
You can avoid a lot of headaches by not installing XenServer on USB.
It's been fine for me, but I eventually am going to move to HD.
I figure it's the same process whether it dies, or I just migrate, so why rush?
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@BRRABill said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
@black3dynamite said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
@BRRABill said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
@momurda said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
Not sure why it didnt. Perhaps there was an orphaned/hidden vdi leftover from some point in the past.
I just checked to make sure it was able to host vms, then moved on. Reinstalling a host takes about 10 minutes, ill get around to it eventually.Yeah it is relatively painless, though always makes me nervous!
I am considering moving off the USB onto a RAID array for boot. (I have a spare one sitting unused.)
Backup VDI info. Reinstall XS to RAID array. Restore VDI info.
Should be relatively painless.
You can avoid a lot of headaches by not installing XenServer on USB.
It's been fine for me, but I eventually am going to move to HD.
I figure it's the same process whether it dies, or I just migrate, so why rush?
FFS! Didn't I hit you on this earlier?
Because one is not an emergency situation while the other is, with people beating down the door wanting to know why shit is down.
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7.2 is here guys
https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-7-2/
Calm down, it's not a big step from 7.1. In fact, it's the start of a more "rolling releasing" thing for 7.2 to 7.x+1 (where x > 1 obviously
)Next time XS will be upgraded (every 6 months approx) it will be available via simple patches.
7.1 is "frozen" (more or less patches) because it's an LTS.
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@olivier said in XenServer 7.1 is out...:
7.2 is here guys
https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-7-2/
Calm down, it's not a big step from 7.1. In fact, it's the start of a more "rolling releasing" thing for 7.2 to 7.x+1 (where x > 1 obviously
)Next time XS will be upgraded (every 6 months approx) it will be available via simple patches.
7.1 is "frozen" (more or less patches) because it's an LTS.
Thanks for the info.
I'm debating doing that to see if it fixes my little issue I have from patches to 7.0
