BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer
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will XenServer boot Windows based VHDs?
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I think so.
But I need to run their "fixup" program.
Which I am trying to figure out how to do after the fact.
More for knowledge sake. Like I said I can just redo the import,
But today is all about learning!
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@BRRABill said:
I think so.
But I need to run their "fixup" program.
Which I am trying to figure out how to do after the fact.
More for knowledge sake. Like I said I can just redo the import,
But today is all about learning!
while it's booting, press F8 to get into the options, just like a bare metal install.
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@Dashrender said:
while it's booting, press F8 to get into the options, just like a bare metal install.
I think I need to find a way to get the ISO file I need into XenServer.
Is that possible to do through XenCenter?
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
while it's booting, press F8 to get into the options, just like a bare metal install.
I think I need to find a way to get the ISO file I need into XenServer.
Is that possible to do through XenCenter?
You need to create an external share, Windows of NFS, to host the ISO file.
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I followed this to create my ISO Library locally on the XS datastore
http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/ -
@Dashrender said:
I followed this to create my ISO Library locally on the XS datastore
http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/(shivers)
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@Dashrender said:
I followed this to create my ISO Library locally on the XS datastore
http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/I wouldn't do this production. In a lab or test environment it is fine though.
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
I followed this to create my ISO Library locally on the XS datastore
http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/I wouldn't do this production. In a lab or test environment it is fine though.
Why?
You can use the available space outside of the boot partition for xen for this.
it's perfectly safe.
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@Dashrender said:
will XenServer boot Windows based VHDs?
Yes, it did after I used the "fixup" option.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
I followed this to create my ISO Library locally on the XS datastore
http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/I wouldn't do this production. In a lab or test environment it is fine though.
Why?
You can use the available space outside of the boot partition for xen for this.
it's perfectly safe.
I was wondering the same thing? I did this on my ESXi box for all of my ISOs.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
will XenServer boot Windows based VHDs?
Yes, it did after I used the "fixup" option.
Though I wonder if setting up a new VM and doing a bare metal restore of that server wouldn't be better than importing the VHD.
Still, pretty awesome either way.
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@BRRABill said:
@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
will XenServer boot Windows based VHDs?
Yes, it did after I used the "fixup" option.
Though I wonder if setting up a new VM and doing a bare metal restore of that server wouldn't be better than importing the VHD.
Still, pretty awesome either way.
I wouldn't think so. You'd still have to uninstall the old hypervisor tools, and install the new hypervisor tools.
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Why not just install from scratch and copy the data over?
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@Dashrender said:
Why not just install from scratch and copy the data over?
I might just do that.
Though I am still hanging on hope that 2016 comes out sooner than later.
Then I don't have to do the process more than once.
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@BRRABill said:
Though I am still hanging on hope that 2016 comes out sooner than later.
I thought I heard Q3.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
For the most part a agree with this. Windows Admin already have or are aware of the tools to manage Hyper-V where as XenServer and ESXi require a new set of tools.
We were discussing this offline or in another thread. I'm not so convinced that this is a broadly true as people think. Tons of Windows Admins are unfamiliar with the tools you would expect them to know for this and even ones that use those tools, often they don't use them for Hyper-V and just log in through RDP to manage it. They might be familiar with the tools (maybe) but often don't even leverage them.
So true in my experience.
Learned a lot in the last couple years through VM's and the various and sundry things you need to poke to get them to work / manage them.
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@FATeknollogee said:
@FATeknollogee said:
Not to side track this thread (apologies to @BRRABill ), what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?
To all you XS experts, what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?
Similar to Starwind in the Windows world
XenServer is natively that in the Xen world. Nothing additional needed.
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@coliver said:
@FATeknollogee said:
@FATeknollogee said:
Not to side track this thread (apologies to @BRRABill ), what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?
To all you XS experts, what is the "hyperconverged" equivalent in the XenServer world?
Is Scale an example of hyperconverged? I don't think there is a single vendor that does that with XenServer.
Yes, Scale is one of the big HC vendors. They use KVM for their solution rather than Xen. KVM is popular for integrating into products, Xen is not. Xen is more popular in clouds than KVM. Partially just culture. Partially because KVM is much more capable of being altered for things like custom storage stacks.
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@coliver said:
Hyperconverged just seems like a marketing term to me.
In many ways it is, but it does mean something.
