XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
Questions tagged [xenserver]
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Xenserver an local Storage (Xenserver Broken)
my Xenserver 6.1 was broken and i was using local storage on this server.
now i want to recover the local storage with the usual adding methods i delete the whole disk, but i want to keep the datea on the disks.
can anybody please help me!!

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Virtualization - Windows guests on Linux host?
Check my previous question.
I am now looking at specifics relating to enterprise virtualization. I have done some research into Citrix Xen Server and VmWare vSphere. I need to know whether it is possible to run Windows 2008 guests on linux hosts. I…

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XenServer 6 - Are Advanced features useful between Data Centers
We are purchasing two new dedicated servers. I originally had planned to purchase the XenServer 6.0 Advanced add-on which gives you the following features:
Specifically these features
Distributed virtual switching
Heterogeneous Pools
High…

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CentOS will not boot. Error 13
I am having trouble with one of our CentOS servers.
I migrated this server to XenServer, installed a new xen kernel, and performed a mkinitrd with:
mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --with=xennet --with=xenblk --preload=xenblk…

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Using a virtual machine as a router in vSphere ESXi or XenServer
I have a server with adequate amount of memory and also I have a single static IP. I want to install XenServer or ESXi on my server and create bunch of virtual machines. In order to use all these virtual machines from outside world, I want to direct…

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Is there a bandwidth efficient way to setup VM on a remote XenServer?
Is there a bandwidth efficient way to setup VM (like setting up Linux / Windows from Console) from a remote XenServer?
I am trying to setup Linux/Windows vm from a remote server; however the console is painfully slow. Is there a better way to do…

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Best Free Hypervisor with HA
We have been running the free version of Citrix XenServer for about 2 years now and it has worked OK for the most part, but we have also had our issues with it. (problems with bootloaders on various guest OS, bugs with VDIs) and most of all, we have…

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Recover a folder deleted with rm -rf on a XEN host
like the title said...I removed a subfolder in the /var/patch and I should have not. Anyway to get it back?
Thanks!

Chris
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Xen hypervisor maximum domu support
Can anyone please let me know that what are Xen Hypervisor 4.x limitations.
How many virtual machines i can create with what memory and cpu?

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can I change the Raid setting without reformatting the hard disk?
I have configured the Dell R740 to use Raid 5 (mixtured of HDD/SDD storage) to run citrix xen server for VMs.
In the past it was configured as Raid 1 mirroring and resulting insufficient storage.
therefore we reformatted the hard disk and set it to…

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Differences between VMware and XCP-ng hipervisor
I am currently researching XCP-ng hipervisor and I was wondering what are the main differences between the XCP-ng and VMware hipervisor. As far as I can see the XCP-ng does not have high availability features as advanced as VMware's. The VMware has…

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Where to install XenCenter?
I am new to the XenServer (and server virtualization as well).
I have setup successfully the XenCenter on my workstation and I can manage my hypervisors without any problems.
I have read in multiple places about a practice, where XenCenter should be…

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Web UI to Xen Cloud platform?
I am an intern at a small company. I have only studied linux for one month so I have no great knowledge of coding and very little knowledge of programming.
I have been assigned to build a server with two virtual machines (one demo server and one…

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xenserver 5.6 without raid
The domU in my environment is a xenserver 5.6 fp1 installed on a regular desktop with intel board and i3 processor. I have 8GB or RAM installed and 1 500GB SATA HDD.
Obviously, i don't have RAID and i was wondering whether it would have an effect…

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100% swap and high load
Why would my swap space be 100% full if I have over 2gb of free ram? I am concerned about the high load averages for having 2 virtual cpus (1 core each).
Here are the server specs, it is a virtual machine on xenserver:
Centos 5.8 x86
2 CPU
4Gb…

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