@WLS-ITGuy

Welcome to ML!

@thanksajdotcom said

Well that's good to hear. But the whole hypervisor discussion might be moot anyways, because the more I think about it, the more hosted makes sense.

Yep.

We used to have 60 people here, which is why we have the internal stuff.

But like I said, if I could start over, it would be all cloud.

We're actually trying to move as much as possible to the cloud as it is.

@WLS-ITGuy said

FYI - Not like you didn't know this but THIS PLACE IS AWESOME!

And this is your first issue.

Give it a few months, you'll need even bigger CAPS.

The SSLS.COM site the @aaronstuder sent me to worked great as well.

And $5 a year as opposed to $12.

Also great support from their end as I messed something up during registration.

@travisdh1 said

Right. Just fire up clonezilla from iDRAC, no licensing issues, and it's dd made easy.

I was wondering if Clonezilla would work with booting issues and whatnot. I guess there is only 1 way to find out.

Hmmm, maybe I better do it the Windows way (from this thread) first juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust in case. I can see myself ending up with two blank USB sticks. Duh.

@travisdh1 said

If you make a backup from XenCenter before that, then all you have to do is reinstall and restore the backup at least.

I actually have a question about that. but I will move it to my XS thread.

@travisdh1 said

If you make a backup from XenCenter before that, then all you have to do is reinstall and restore the backup at least.

I had a question about this.

If you were to mess up your USB boot stick. I understand you can reinstall XS, and restore the backup. However, you still have to "find" and mount all the VMs, right? And the VM metadata also needs to be backed up as well, right?

I was researching this, and decided to give XS research a break for a few days. But you made me think of this again.

@travisdh1

Yeah I got a little burned out on XS stuff.

Then some other work stuff came up.

I'll get back to it, too, and let you know if I do it before you get to it.

I wish they would release 7 already. It is supposed to make transferring between non-similar hosts much easier/doable. That would make it easier for me to transfer VMs back and forth. Right now it's a PITA for me and my 1 (new) server shop.

I was sure my USB boot stick had filled up with logs. But I took a look and it looks fine.

Though FileZilla showing things in bytes threw me off. No coffee yet.

Man did this thread fork.

backups >>> livestock

@scottalanmiller said

I'm always forgetting that Veeam Endpoint will handle this. At least for the Windows servers.

Which Veeam product is that, exactly?

@coliver said

That's the worst. I had to build my home lab twice to before I remembered that option.

Yes, terrible interface to not highlight that choice.

Everything else is awesome.

@scottalanmiller said

but email would be allowed as well given that it is an improvement over faxing.

Good luck documenting and proving that as reasoning for use.

@Breffni-Potter said

The only thing I'm not happy about, is getting the iDrac 6 virtual console working. Trying a few things out.

Is the iDrac6 like the 7 and later models? Where it is installed with very basic functionality in every server, and things like the virtual console have to be licensed?

@wirestyle22 said

If you found a solution though that's great.

It made it the same size, and in about 1/100th of the time.

@DustinB3403 said

You have a room in your house just for the HVAC equipment, I guess I am a plebeian...

I do as well. It's called the basement.

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

The root partition is now 18GB!

Damn!

Now I don't feel bad using that 32GB for my production system.

And you thought I was crazy to do a 32GB USB stick!!

P.S. Very exciting!!!!

@olivier said

I'm not sure. I discovered a lot about the upgrade process just today. I'd love to have more input/doc from Citrix before the D-day, but you know, it's hard to be in the plans of a big corp

I'm sure there will be a lot of testing here at ML.

My biggest "hope" is that it will allow me to live migrate to my test server. That will make things so much easier for me. But, that's just being selfish.

@Dashrender said

I have this problem, I don't have a second XS to migrate to, so I need to do an inplace upgrade.

My second XS is just a desktop level machine. Works perfectly.

In fact, has been running production VMs (since the SSD array issue) with nary a hiccup for weeks.

I am hoping I can upgrade it, then live migrate everything off my production server (since XS7 is supposed to support processor masking better), then upgrade the production server, then migrate everything back.