Performance Xen Orchestra is always going faster We are currently working on a new optimisation of Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_faster] (server side), that makes everything going faster: connection time and bandwidth reduced, plus in bonus smaller memory and CPU footprint on the process itself. Faster connection Let's compare adding a
Case study Case Study #1 - XOA at The Joint BioEnergy Institute Discover how Xen Orchestra is used in production at the JBEI.
Release Xen Orchestra 5.7 March release! Almost 40 issues closed, better global UI usability and bug fixes. Oh, and XOSAN [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xosan-beta-phase-1/] is now working on XenServer 7.1! > The complete changelog is available here [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/stable/CHANGELOG.md#570-2017-03-31]. Shared VMs in resource set
XOSAN XOSAN Beta Phase 1 The first beta stage for XOSAN is now open! To activate your XOSAN beta, just go in the "XOSAN" menu in your (up-to-date) XOA, and click on "Register for Beta". > As soon we unlocked your beta, you'll receive an email! This could take
Release Xen Orchestra 5.6 First release of the year, and it's a pretty nice one! A lot of new features but also the usual pile of bug fixes. > Want to meet us? If you are in Europe next Februray 4 and 5, we'll be at FOSDEM 2017 [https://fosdem.
XOSAN XOSAN with 10GB link on XenServer A quick post regarding new hardware that just came for our lab: 10GB network cards to benchmark (again) hyperconverged XenServer storage with XOSAN [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-hyperconverged-with-xosan/]. > At the same time, a new release of XO is planned next week! Stay tuned! Hardware We selected compatible NICs (cf
XOSAN XenServer hyperconverged with XOSAN This is the second blog post related to make XenServer hyperconverged [/blog/xenserver-hyperconverged/] in a simple way (check the previous link if you missed it!) Today, we'll see how the main replication mode will work. A next post will explain about tiering (not planned for now, but very
Features Combined XenServer pool stats Let's discover a new cool feature of Xen Orchestra: combined pool statistics.
Features XenServer Infrastructure Reports Plan and receive your reports by email, on your whole XenServer infrastructure.
Release Xen Orchestra 5.5 Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_5.5] last release of the year and this is a pretty big one. THE big new feature is file level restore for any existing (and future) delta backups. But there is even more! File level restore This new features is a
XenServer Hyperconvergence Have you heard about hyperconvergence? Let's (re)discover it and explore what's possible to do with XenServer and Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_hyperconv1]. EDIT: Discover XOSAN [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xosan-home], our software defined solution for XenServer hyperconvergence Current XenServer storage paradigm In
Xen Orchestra now available in Chinese A quick post to tell you that Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_chinese] is now available in Chinese! Go into your user settings and switch to it: Instantly, the whole app is now in simplified Chinese! Thanks a lot to Kaven Chen for the translation!
Release Xen Orchestra 5.4 Here is a new release of Xen Orchestra, the management stack for XenServer. In this release: better UI, new views, Slack plugin for backup reports… and many more! As usual, the "raw" changelog is available here [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/stable/CHANGELOG.md#540-2016-11-23]. > Don&
Xen Orchestra backup reports to Slack A nice feature for the coming Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com] 5.4 release: you already had XenServer backup reports by emails [/blog/xen-orchestra-4-10/#emailnotificationsforbackup] or via XMPP [/blog/xmpp-for-xenserver-backups/]. Now it works with Slack [https://slack.com/]! It's really easy to configure, it's just a
Release New XOA available We announced it [/blog/new-xo-virtual-appliance-2/] few days back. It's now there: the new Unified Xen Orchestra virtual Appliance. [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/member/products?pk_campaign=blog_new_xoa_download] You can download it here [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/member/products?pk_campaign=blog_new_xoa_download] . Easy migration from
Release Xen Orchestra 5.3 A new month, a new release! This one offers a big focus on overall quality (a lot of bugs fixed, that's even a new record in numbers). But there is also nice new features. Keyboard shortcuts You can now navigate through the app with keyboard shortcuts! By pressing
New XO virtual Appliance > Update: it's now in "stable", see https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/new-xoa-available/ In the next weeks, we'll release a new version of the virtual appliance itself, which is running Xen Orchestra. This new appliance will be unified, more secure, faster and easier to use.
Keyboard shortcuts in Xen Orchestra We just introduced keyboard shortcuts in Xen Orchestra. That's just a start, but it will be very useful to accelerate your every day Xen management operations. Discover your shortcuts Just press the "h" (or "?") key, it will display a modal window with the list
Release Xen Orchestra 5.2 Xen Orchestra 5.2 is here! In this big release, there is 30 bug fixes and more than 30 enhancements, like: * Smart backup * OVA import * IP management (VIF locking and IP reservation) * SSH keys management * new VM from a snapshot * log view * lot of improvements and bug fixes Want to
XenServer VM IP management This blog post is intended as a quick guide to VM IPs restriction and management for your XenServer infrastructure. Concepts The API of XenServer, XAPI, is working at the hypervisor level. In other words, it can't interfere with things inside VM's operating system. On the other
OVA import in XenServer This is a very exciting feature coming for the next release of Xen Orchestra: a simple and powerful way to import your OVA files into XenServer! Just a drag'n drop The goal, as usual, is to make this very easy. We currently support OVA with VMDK disks included,
SSH keys management in Xen Orchestra Remember our article on playing with CloudInit and XenServer [/blog/full-cloudinit-power-in-xenserver/] thanks to Xen Orchestra? We managed to improve our UI to get it even easier. Let's take a tour. Manage your SSH keys In your user zone, you can manage your keys (create, remove). Click on "
