@Dashrender said in XenServer 7.0 issues on HP Elite 8100, 6.5 Flies.: I have a HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF as my XS 7.0 test box. Works great! I don't see any issue with a lab box being PC based. Yeah. My "oh s***" box is a Dell T3500. It stood in for the server while it got upgraded to XS7 from XS6.

I found the process I had used previously. Here it is here. Summarized below. Make sure the VM in question is shutdown. From the console xe vm-shutdown uuid=<UUID of Your VM> xe vbd-list vm-uuid=<UUID of Your VM> params=uuid,type xe vbd-destroy uuid=<UUID of Your CD/DVD> Of critical importance do not select Disk, ensure you select the UUID of the cd Repeat step 4 as many times as you have CD's that are unusable. Reboot the VM and add the device again.

@scottalanmiller said Seems that way, but worth some testing. I'm going to test the "add folder to SR" theory soon. Then I can move on to SRs and partitions.

@Dashrender said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question: @scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question: @Dashrender said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question: @scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question: @DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question: @FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7: best practice: noob question: @DustinB3403 Does it have better performance & is it easier to setup? That is all dependent on how comfortable you are with software / hardware raid. Even for software RAID experts, hardware RAID is easier. well yeah - it's practically plug and play - so few options. Plus, in hardware RAID (assuming the chassis supports it) you get hot swap, something you don't get with Software RAID. All enterprise software RAID has hot swap and always has. Only FakeRAID doesn't offer that and even that sometimes does. Hot swap is basically ubiquitous. Even ridiculous Windows software RAID has hot swap. excuse me, I used the wrong term - I meant Blind swap - the lack of need to tell the OS to demount the drive before you pull it from the system. Yes, now that software RAID generally lacks.

What do the logs say about the system going down? I'm guessing that it is going down for whatever reason there is then a RAID issue.

@ntoxicator said in Get Large Disk Images on XenServer 6.5 on Local Filesystem?: @Scale computing nodes...... same limitations I presume? Sorry for taking a week to see the mention. Thanks for thinking of us. No, the limitation does not exist on the Scale HC3 clusters. We do not have artificial size limitations. We have tested VMs much larger than 2TB without issue.

@olivier said in XenServer Export Performance Seems Poor: You can create a basic backup schedule and de-activate the compression, then run the job manually. You'll have an export without compression. When I was running my test, it seemed the exporting directly from XC was quicker than running a one time backup from XO of the same VM to the same location. The export of a small VM (I set it up just for testing this) was about 6 minutes, and the backup was 13. But it sounds like what you are saying is that it should have been the opposite.

And that didn't take your VMs down?

My situation wasn't a snapshop - it was a fast copy.. so I'm not really sure.

@Danp said: @johnhooks On a non-running VM, there's a "clone" option where you can choose either fast clone or full disk copy. I feel like such a moron. That's such an obvious place and I didn't even notice it. I've just been using the regular copy function like a dolt.

@travisdh1 said: On a somewhat unrelated note, thanks for getting me to look at the /var/log directory on the XenServer here. Had a bunch of old logs clogging things up (500MB on the tiny little root partition.) Moved those off to my workstation for now, probably need to take some time and see what's going on. Glad my freak out could help ya out

@FATeknollogee said: @scottalanmiller said: I'm watching the videos trying to figure out what it does. Looks like a decent product but haven't seen any single pane of glass stuff yet. Did you at least find one compelling feature? Not yet.

@johnhooks said: @Dashrender said: Used these instructions to create the ISO Store. http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/ XO makes it easy. You can just create one with their interface. I suppose you could install the XO VM using a URL to pull the ISO for installation.

Just a guess.. For 6.5 sudo yum --enablerepo=base --disablerepo=citrix install postfix http://xmodulo.com/how-to-install-additional-packages-in.html For 7 http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/378880-xenserver-70-repositories/ post #5

Thank you @DustinB3403 , but unfortunately i have tried all of this before and maybe more than this but without any result

@DustinB3403 said: Did you not have somewhere to jump off of? XS/XO/XOA is all great, but seriously the thread count is stupid. The knowledge is lost in all the noise.

@halizard Awesome, thank you and your group a crap ton for me. Gives me stuff to work on!

Happy to see it tested intensively

I hit the store last night and spent $23 on a 32 GB, not point in not just having plenty of extra space.

Looks like there is a beta... http://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-65/windows10techpreview.pdf

Modding to mark as a question that has been resolved.

@aaronstuder said in Building Out XenServer 6.5 with USB Boot and Software RAID 10: Confirmed Working Awesome, thanks.

@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.

@scottalanmiller Planning to start it this week. I'm still finding parts to use. Trying to be as cost conscious as possible as this is only my home lab. (and the significant other gets testy when I want to "buy toys")

@jshiers said: Maybe I should just start do inplace upgrades on my servers!!!! That's an option for sure. Snap them, upgrade, test and see.

@flomer said: OK, I guess I could try and test it if I have the time soon Did you get a chance to test?

We had a physical server change and did a fresh install rather than an upgrade from 6.2 to 6.5 so did not need to do it or I would have had a first hand experience to share. We are on XenServer 6.5 and have been for a bit now. The final product is awesome.

@scottalanmiller I will ask this in another thread