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XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.

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XenServer and VMware ESXi, scalability and budget considerations?

In my organization, we are looking to virtualize servers (a dozen of Linux and Windows servers or so). I am looking for a solution what would scale over the years and that would allow us maximum flexibility (i.e., moving virtual machines from one…
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What is the best design (software/hardware, backups) for two servers providing virtual machines in colo

I currently have one older server that provides VMs using Xen on CentOS. While not a monster, it supports VT extensions and has a 1TB hardware RAID1 disk set up. I am looking to add another server that is newer, keeping the old one for mutual…
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USB passthrough (non storage) to XenServer 7 VM

I have migrated a server from physical to virtual using XenServer 7. Nevertheless, we need now a USB dongle for security purposes but have not been able to find the way to properly pass it to the virtual machine. Most resources point to using USB…
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Xenserver, iSCSI and Dell MD3600i

I have a functional xenserver 6.5 pool with two nodes. It is backed by an iscsi share on a Dell MD3600i SAN, and this works fine. It was set up before my time. We've added three more nodes to the pool. However these three new nodes will not…
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Auto-Reboot on Kernel BUG (not tainted, “fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed”)

I'm running a sometimes highly loaded Debian 7 VM with the latest 3.2.x kernel on a XenServer 6.2 host. Sometimes this VM runs into the following state: Ping is okay, All Services unreachable (including SSH) A message showing a trace + "kernel BUG"…
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CentOS 7 on XenServer 6.5

I am having problem trying to get CentOS 7 Graphical installer to work on XenServer 6.5 (Service pack 1). I have used CentOS 7 template. Graphical installer does not work, getting blank screen with cursor only. I have tried increasing RAM to 2GB and…
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Convert ESXi 5.0 & 5.5 VM's to Xenserver 6.5

I'm looking to convert about 50 esxi vm's to xenserver 6.5. I am running the free version of xenserver 6.5. I've seen posts for the citrix xen converter tool and I've tried out the VMware OVF Conversion Tool with some vmdk/vmx files but did not have…
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XENSERVER - PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found

We use XenServer to host our VPS and when we tried rebooting the server we get the following error right away PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found We need to edit the grub file for the VM. We have found the following which should work…
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NAS recommendation for Xenserver

I know this is a newbie question, but believe me please, I have done extensive research on the web and got some conflicting and old answers (2010-2013). I want to know what people do nowadays (in 2015) I have a pool of 4 Costco special Dell/HP…
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How to solve XenServer Windows guest time driffting issue?

I do have two different Windows VM guests that seem to be drifting time seriously, reaching an offset of 10-15 seconds in less than a week. Both the Windows guests and the XenServer 6.5 host are configured to update the time from the same internal…
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Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for Citrix XenServer 6.5 installation issues

We are trying to deploy Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer on a running pool of XenServer's. The documentation of the product isn't quite clear about the procedure of the installation and the support of the vendor wasn't able to help on…
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Bare metal hyper-visor that supports viewing it's own guests

I'm trying to understand if it is possible to have a Type-1 Hypervisor (bare metal, no host OS) with the ability to view the guest(s) operating system(s) on the same machine. i.e. I have a XenServer which hosts 2 Windows and 1 Ubuntu server. While…
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XenServer - Storage XenMotion between 2 servers using direct LAN connection

I have two physical servers (recent, Haswell based machines) on which I have installed XenServer 6.5 . Both servers have two NICs. These servers are hosted at the Hetzner datacenter. I have connected a LAN crossover cable between the two servers on…
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GPU support on OpenStack/CloudStack

I'm wondering if anyone here has had success with any of the cloud orchestration layers using a GPU (preferably vGPU)? I've been able to get XenServer 6.2 to successfully see our nvidia GRID K1 card but didn't know if any of the OpenStack/CloudStack…
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XenServer 6.5 - Creating local iso storage/library failed - SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_222

I was trying to adapt instructions for XenServer 6.2 on how to create a local ISO library to a freshly installed XenServer 6.5 host. However the command ... xe sr-create name-label=LocalIso type=iso device-config:legacy-mode=true…
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