Cross pool migration with XO Hi everyone! A blog post about a new cool feature freshly implemented in Xen Orchestra: cross pool migration, AKA migration without shared storage (or Storage Xen Motion). Concepts In XenServer, you have to type of live migration: Xen Motion and Storage Xen Motion. Xen Motion Easy one. That's
New website! We're back with a new blog and a new website :) Farewell Wordpress! Say hello to Ghost. We decided to wipe our current stack and to use better tools. New blog We switched from WP to Ghost. It uses Markdown for writing. And that's waaaaaaay better than
XO 4.x goals In this article, you'll see what we want for the next branch of Xen Orchestra. But first, some details about our development cycle. Dev cycle A leap of branch (major number, e.g 3.x to 4.x) indicates a big feature or a an important modification in
Import and export VM in XO A very important (and coming!) feature in Xen Orchestra, will be VM import & export. Want to know how it will work and what will be possible to do with it? Go on! XenServer mechanism Before getting on use cases and UI consideration, we'll see how XenServer, and
Xenserver How to use Wake-on-LAN on XenServer In this post, we'll see how to activate the Wake-on-LAN (WOL) on XenServer. Hardware configuration Naturally, it depends of your hardware configuration. If you don't have any Server Manager Tool, like iLO (HP) or iDRAC (Dell), you can count on the WOL feature of your network
Statistics in XO This coming feature in Xen Orchestra is really important. But not trivial to implement. Let's what it is all about. Concepts Our current architecture connects directly to the XAPI, listen to events and send orders. But statistics are not directly in the XAPI. It was the case in
Xen Orchesta 3.5.1 A minor release for a minor fix [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/issues/139] ;) Want to upgrade in XOA? As explained in the documentation [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo/blob/master/doc/installation/xoa_installation.md#restart-and-update-process-in-xoa] , just type that: npm update --global xo-web xo-server systemctl restart xo-server.service And
Xen Orchestra 3.5 Less than three months from the previous release [/blog/xen-orchestra-3-4/], and during a very busy summer for us, we officially released XO 3.5 with approximatively 20 bug fixes/enhancements. Explore what's new in this article! Visible changes * Add action buttons in the console view: as requested by
Full XO stack on npm This a quick post about how XO is built. 1 year ago [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-server/commit/ae091cdb8c43eef86e7ee19f7ea53ad92b2407f6] , we choose to switch from PHP to NodeJS: what a great idea! It's easier to work with JavaScript on the whole stack (from "xo-server", the back-end, to
VM Backup with Xen Orchestra > UPDATE: we are now supporting Rolling snapshots, Full VM backups and even Delta backup for XenServer! Read our blog post about XenServer incremental backup with Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-incremental-backup/]. As you may already know, we planned to integrate backups directly in Xen Orchestra: this feature is
Xen Orchestra from the CLI > ⚠: Some part of this article may be outdated. Please, rely on our documentation [https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/architecture.html#xo-cli-cli] for correct usage of the CLI commands. As explained in a previous post [/blog/users-roles-in-xen-orchestra/], Xen Orchestra is not just a web interface to Xen, it is also a
Xen Orchestra documentation If you want more information about Xen Orchestra, like how it works, how to use it, some recipes (like using XO with an Apache reverse proxy), check our new "doc" [https://xen-orchestra.com/docs].
Xen Orchestra 3.4 Hi everyone! Ready for a new release? Two great features: * A sign in page (no more public access, you should have at least a registered user). We've got "read" permission for people who want the same result than before. * An "end-to-end" event system (see
Users roles in Xen Orchestra This post is an introduction of our users roles implementation in Xen Orchestra. Our main goal is to provide you a way to optimize your workflow with VMs, and you'll see how we found the solution. The need A LOT of companies ask us for user roles for
Bounties for Xen Orchestra As requested by "ngc" on our forum [/forum/72-feature-requests-bounties], we are now able to register contributions for unlock features in Xen Orchestra. The main demand is on user roles [/forum/74-users-and-roles-in-xo] and also getting metrics [/forum/75-statistics-in-xo] in xo-web. The first good news in our official first contribution
Xen Orchestra 3.3.1 We're back with a minor release, mainly for fixing bugs + update console view, which is nicer : You can read the change log here [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md]. Please update your current XOA 3.3 with this command: service xo update && service
Xen Orchestra 3.3 Here it comes the fourth release of Xen Orchestra 3.x. The main new feature is snapshots: you can now make snapshots, delete, rename or revert them! List of visible changes: * full snapshot management (create, delete, rename, revert) * host actions, like restart toolstack, reboot or shutdown * log management: you can
Testing XenServer 6.2.5 beta Thanks to this tweet [https://twitter.com/lsantiagos/status/441738002914476032], I decided to test latest build of XenServer. Let's see what we have here. First, I don't have any physical host left to install it on bare hardware. Let's play virtception! The famous scene
XOA: more than 1000 downloads! Just one month after our first XOA 3.0 release, we've got more than 1000 unique downloads (1100 right now). And we don't take into account manual installs. So, on behalf of XO team, thank you! We hope to continue this way, and with your help
February: a big step in Xen Orchestra project February was really an important month for the project, with our 3.x release. Also numbers sometimes talk themselves: * more than 9500 visitors during the month (+40% compared to January, check the bump in the graph!) * more than 800 unique downloads for XOA (all versions, without counting manual installations) * a
Xen Orchestra 3.2 We're back with a new version of Xen Orchestra! The big news is about console: it now works in Chrome browsers \o/ Our patch sent to noVNC team was merged yesterday [https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/pull/338]. List of changes: * consoles in Chrome browser (do not forget
Xen Orchestra 3.1 Hi everyone! Just one week after our first 3.0 release [/blog/new-major-release-for-xen-orchestra/], we are proud to present you the 3.1 version! We were efficient, with 11 bugs/enhancements fixed. Thanks people for actively reporting issues (morsik and hoerup reported more than 70% of our issues for this release!
New major release for Xen Orchestra Hi everyone! After 6 months of hard work, more than 500 new commits (!), one LinuxCon, one FOSDEM, around 32000 visitors here, we are proud to present a new version of Xen Orchestra (release 3, codename "Clarinet"). Let's see what we have here! New features and cycle
New release incoming We are just back from FOSDEM14 [https://fosdem.org/2014/] :) Great event with a lot of stuff, and very interesting discussions for people getting on Xen booth seeing our demo. Thank everybody for your support! (and Xen team for sharing the booth!). We can now focus on the next release
XO Team at FOSDEM 2014 Want to see us during next FOSDEM [https://fosdem.org/2014/]? We'll be on Xen booth (Sat. 15:00 -> 17:00 and Sun. 10:00 -> 12:00), running a live demo of the next release! The Xen booth will be in K building, level1
