We're back! And with a lot of new features and bugfixes. The list of new possibilities is pretty extensive (see below). We are also excited about 2015: a new developer is coming in January and we'll be fully dedicated on Xen Orchestra, thus running at full

We are proud to announce the Early Access release of Xen Orchestra Appliance "Starter" Edition! Why we release a early access version ? In fact, all the features are tested, not the whole process around the product. But: * We want to have the most feedback possible and as soon

Since this year, XO is fully capable of managing VM snapshots. But now, thanks to the VM export capability with XO 3.6, you can also export snapshots! Why export snapshots? Let's imagine you want to restore an old snapshot without rollback the curent VM. It's

In the 3.6 release, XO is able to send patches to your server. We'll see how it works, from any browser and device. Patches in XenServer You can download patches for XenServer on this page [http://www.xenserver.org/overview-xenserver-open-source-virtualization/download.html] . Every patch is a *.zip

You may have heard about Amazon or Rackspace rebooting some of their instances few days ago. It was known as a consequence of Xen Security Advisory number 108, aka XSA-108. Update: the article is updated with more details and a correction about the amount of memory that could be read

As explained in a previous article [/blog/import-and-export-vm-in-xo], we started to implement VM import and export in Xen Orchestra. Guess what? It just hits the next-release version! (meaning: we are testing it right now). Let's give you a taste of what you'll have -very- soon. Update:

> 2015 December Update: check our complete guide to use Docker with XenServer: Docker support in XenServer, the ultimate guide [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/docker-support-in-xenserver-the-ultimate-guide/] Containers and hypervisors are often seen as competing technologies - enemies even. But in reality the two technologies are complementary and increasingly used together by

After a long period of thinking, we are pushing our pricing model! 3 plans to cover all your needs We have tried to create plans to cover all your needs and to fit every budget. The 3 plans are Starter ($70 per month), Entreprise ($200 per month) and Premium ($500

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

> 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

> ⚠: 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

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].

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

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

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

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