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@DustinB3403 said

It's the most simple Hypervisor out there.

It really is easy.

I got a little frustrated at something this week, and decided to consider a move back to Hyper-V. I installed Hyper-V, and no lie was back to XS within the hour.

Anyone else "reading" posts in the voices of the people they met at MC2016?

@scottalanmiller said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):

What's the latest on this project?

Well, I still do not have production servers on it yet. (I was waiting for XS7 to come out.)

But I put a Splunk instance on it (as well as XO, and a few other things) and it hasn't had any issues yet. Of course it didn't with the EDGE drives until I really got things running on it, so we shall see. But nothing was writing to it like the Splunk machine is.

But so far, so good.

@Nic

Will you still be giving out 1 year trials?

I actually used XO to migrate the VM that XO was running on.

Now THAT was cool!

@JaredBusch said in I can't even:

This thread is not like eschewing best practices. It is simply wtf.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1873496-port-forward-same-port-to-multiple-addresses

@JaredBusch have you ever been criticized in code form before, LOL.

I was a little confused about how exactly to recover from a XS boot failure. Obviously the way you did it was able to get the VMs back up and running. That is good to know.

There is also a methodology to backup the entire XS system, including the VM metadata. This process is described here...
http://techblog.danielpellarini.com/sysadmin/steps-to-take-to-restore-xenserver-from-backup/

In another linked article, he explains what is backup up in the metadata as:
"And by VM metadata I mean what drives are connected to what VM, the name of the drive, the network interfaces etc."

I guess if you had a lot of custom settings for your VMs (tags, etc.) or a lot of stuff listed as metadata, it might be good to do such a backup.

This is something I am still a bit unclear on.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I just want to say thank god for mangolassi. I've learned so much since I came here. I really don't think I'd be where I'm at now if it weren't for all of you guys helping me so much. It's really appreciated

Welcome back, BTW!

We generally keep our machines long in the tooth here.

It's amazing what 4GB of RAM (or even better 8GB) and a SSD will do.

I have a 7-8 year old Mac at home that is blazing.

@MattSpeller said in I can't even:

@DustinB3403 said in I can't even:

Oh and he wants to keep some things physical.... get's so much better..

Youtube Video

That is a scary screen freeze.

Doubled the RAM in my production XS today, and finally migrated the production mail server off the desktop that was running XS to the DELL server running XS7.

I used the live migration, and it worked like a dream.

Awesome...

@ChrisL said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got done foam rolling. Tweaked a muscle in my back working out a few weeks back and I've been rolling out and sitting on tennis balls for a week straight.

Sitting in an office chair doesn't help at all.

ML is full of people with back issues all of a sudden.

@dafyre said

I blame Microsoft.

And Bush.

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It's alive! (caution: loud)

With that, I'm going home.

Pill press?

Travis must be selling a lot of MDMA to need something like that!

This forum knows an awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwful lot about drugs.

There has been discussion on various threads about this topic, so I thought it would be good to give it its own area.

Basically, we have been directing a lot of people to install XS, and install it on USB. However, XS does a good deal of writing to the boot disk, and that cannot happen for the safety of the USB boot device.

I think it would be prudent to figure out exactly WHAT it writes, and how to stop it.

QUESTION 1:
How do we determine what is being written? Is there a way to track what XS is writing?

I have found these two articles, both of which talk about some of the files it does write. But how do we know these are the only files being written?

http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/xenserver-root-disk-maintenance.html

http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/log-rotation-and-syslog-forwarding.html

They are offering 2 rent free months. Just with an apostrophe typo that is seen almost everywhere.

Its common. (See what I did there?)

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

I started watching the bug and voted for it. Fourteen people now watching it.

Did you see the posting to that page today?

Two interesting takeaways...
"In terms of status, I can tell you that we have a good idea of what needs doing, having done some investigation into this a few months ago. We're therefore confident that we know how much work this will be, and what risk (i.e. how much testing) it will take to productise."

And, maybe of interest to @olivier...
"On backup specifically, my view is that we need to improve import/export performance, but we also need to look at providing a true backup API that third party vendors can integrate with (the lack of which hurts XenServer because as a consequence there are relatively few backup vendors in our ecosystem). We're also looking at how we provide that."

@jaredbusch said in Uber Austin? When did that change?:

I usually take the local express bus from the airport to my hotel when I come into town. But then I take a taxi on the leaving day because hang over.

Last year at MC I took the stupid 5AM shuttle back to the airport with a hangover. It was awful.

Right @ChrisL ????

@DustinB3403 said in Exporting a DC/Exchange VM from Hyper-V 2008:

@scottalanmiller Sorry dad...

#tagpolice

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Why? Why, Why, Why does it seem that every month or so, the ability to manage my Hyper-V host via Hyper-V Manager vanishes, and I get an error message.

(closes eyes, shakes head slowly in disappointment and anger)

What error message.

Happens to me to.

Answer is:
computers,microsoft,computers,microsoft