Posts made by krisleslie

I am still using Comodo ONE (MSP). Free and works fine. Small caveats are the KB kinda sucks (but honestly 90% of the helpdesk's I've seen all do). I came from Spiceworks and Fresh Desk. If money wasn't an issue, then I'd be using Fresh Desk or IT Glue.

Alternatively, you could and an external gfx card adapter. I got one, works like a charm.

You can get a refurbished or new Dell Latitude E6420 or better for $200 to whatever your heart is content with.

Mine has dual SSD, 16 GB of RAM, i7, hdmi/vga and usb3. If able always get the newer version of it. Honestly because the video card needs to at least Intel or you can get an nvidia, I always get a usb adapter for display (3rd or 4th) but you could use a docking station. Works fine for me.

If you don't want a laptop then I can give you an actual desktop I use if space isn't an issue.

I just ordered a brand new dell laptop, they can fit up to 32 GB DDR4 which is obviously cheaper on the new models, but beware, some of the systems they sell can come with 4-8 GB of RAM and NOT give you an option to add more ram (intentionally) because they removed the slot! So if you want brand new, BE WISE AND READ!

@scottalanmiller are the nfs shares faster than Windows SMB shares?

@Dashrender smart idea I will try that. I think your right they are remnants of a previous Linux install.

So I do have one question because I did actually backup the metadata (originally). It was backed up to the local drive (aka the Flash Drive). How can I take a peek at that data? I tried putting the usb drive into my windows 10 pc and that yield no results. I see about 5-7 partitions.

Morning fellas, following back up with everyone. I have successfully updated to XCP-NG 8.0 release for the hypervisor on my affected server. I have swapped out the flash drive (still don't think it had a memory issue, just think there was some corruption of the file system) and used a brand new flash drive (128 Gb as the location I install the hypervisor to. I was able to get back to my data on the SR.

So to mitigate this from happening again, I have cloned the flash drive, backed up the metadata properly in 2 locations and confirmed my backups are running fine. I have also moved the logs to a Linux logging server.

What I will say is that I wasted 3 hours because the commands I had to run had only 1 critical mistake the guides below didn't explain. Other than that, things are getting back to normal. I thank everyone who participated in helping me and I appreciate you.

Resources:

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136342#Restoring the Mappings
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136342

@IRJ also if you think about that if the read and write speeds are slow that could take quite a while to accomplish.

@IRJ i would like to know more about your spin up process

@DustinB3403 well buddy what’s a suggested setup?

@IRJ could you yes, but I wouldn’t do it like that. It might not make it for a year. But new flash drives improve yearly. There are some now that offer ssd like speed.

@Dashrender honestly I wish VMWare would open source some of their code because there are plenty of times where they have definitely made an awesome tool or resource or process but then it’s closed to them and people have to make alternative attempts to emulate what they do in your preferred platform.

@DustinB3403 let me read that

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX215564

I should have left the server running because it was loaded into memory and all the vms were fine. When I rebooted the host of course I made this more fun.

@Dashrender it doesn’t have to detect if it’s on the flash drive or not but I can honestly say I never had an issue ever with VMware. So that same mentality came over to xenserver. Moving the logs over isn’t hard so I can do that and further reduce writes. Great idea brother.

@Pete-S gotcha I’m rusty on live distro but can make it happen. I’m thinking the clear path is to reinstall xenserver again, and import the backup data, which as far as I can tell should restore the actual vms also. Am I on the right path of understanding?

Just FYI, I normally buy 128 Gb flash drives that go internally to the server. They don’t die fast. I don’t mean a ssd or HD drive connected via usb into the server. That would be doable but weird.

That’s the whole purpose of having internal connections like that, to load onto flash memory.

In my case because my”help” 🤨 got this server and only got if I’m not mistaken 1 USB port inside. In hindsight I would prefer dual ports inside preferably in raid.

The counter to that is to use a clone tool and clone the flash drive or have raid Cf cards. Very little point to have a real hard drive in but I can see how In a big environment that might be more of the thing.

It has taken about 4 years “if” this flash drive went out. I hope it went it out because that’s better than a raid array going out.

Now I will say this i found out a routine I haven’t done is backup that meta data but maybe once or twice. So that’s something I just read about and will add to the routine.

So if I’m not mistaken, that’s opening up the xsconsole itself and using the back up option? Correct me if I’m wrong.

@Pete-S dude you just dropped knowledge