XMPP notifications for XenServer backups Since last release [/blog/xen-orchestra-4-10/], we added email notifications for all backup events (full backup [https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/full_backups.html], rolling snapshots [https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/rolling_snapshots.html] or even DR [https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/delta_backups.html]): Not fun enough? So go for XMPP notification then!
Xen Orchestra 4.10 Last release of the month! This one is pretty big: * 30+ issues/enhancements closed * 10 new usable features * a lot of improvements * and multiple bug fixes! In few words: we finished the first batch of backup features, and we included a lot of things you'll love :) The official
Auto start VM on XenServer boot This article explains how to start automatically a VM when you boot or reboot your XenServer host. Indeed, if for a reason you need to restart your host (or if it reboots for any "non-planned" reason), it's a good thing to have your VM started automatically.
Docker Docker support in XenServer, the ultimate guide Docker guide to have your container exposed in XenServer.
XenServer emergency shutdown Imagine you lost electrical power for your whole IT room. Luckily, you got an UPS[1], and that's great. But what if power doesn't come back before the batteries are depleted? You have a limited amount of time to shutdown your XenServer hosts, and you probably
XenServer quiesce snapshots Snapshots are a convenient way to rollback your system to a previous state, in other words to "point in time" a disk state. They are: * fast * small (delta) * exportable * and can be scheduled with retention [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-4-2/#schedulerollingsnapshots] in Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_
Release Xen Orchestra 4.9 First release of November! You wanted more backup options? You got it! Please also consider to check our new documentation [https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/]. Auto Disaster Recovery This feature is possible thanks to our VM streaming implementation we built few days ago [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/vm-streaming-export-in-xenserver/]: It works like
Xen Orchestra documentation Our new complete documentation is now available here: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/ Feel free to comment if we missed something! Roughly, it's more than 70 pages exported in a PDF.
XenServer backup: compress or not compress? When you export a VM (eg for backup purpose) in XenServer, you can use (or not) the built-in compression of the XAPI. In the coming 4.9 version of Xen Orchestra, you can select "Disable compression" for your XenServer scheduled backups: Let's try to compare a
Announcing Xen Orchestra 5.x Just after our initial release of Xen Orchestra 4.8 [/blog/xen-orchestra-4-8/], I'm proud to announce that we started to work for a new major release: Xen Orcestra 5.0, the web interface for XenServer. This first milestone of our new 5.x branch will be awesome, believe
VM streaming export in XenServer Have you ever wanted to copy a VM to another pool or host? So far, you have to do this: 1. export the VM somewhere (on a storage large enough to handle the whole VM size) 2. import the VM on a new host And not only this, you need
Bug hunt with Citrix This is the (short) story of how we discovered a bug using Xen Orchestra and XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver], then how it was fixed very quickly by Citrix team. > This is me telling calmly but firmly that we found a noticeable bug. Symptoms In short: losing consoles in
Xen Orchestra 4.8 Second release of the month is now available with nice and various improvements. In short, we got a fully automatic patch system, a huge performance boost on statistics, ACLs with inheritance, a protection again brute force login and a lot of smaller improvements. And also bugs fixes (we closed 28
How about 130x faster stats? A great news for those using our live stats and even our datavisualizations! We managed to provide a huge boost in performance when we fetch XenServer statistics (RRDs). Until now That's not the first time we made a tremendous leap [/blog/improving-xen-orchestra-performances/] in terms of performances. This time,
Xen Orchestra 4.7 Right on time to deliver a better experience to the web interface of XenServer :) Despite new lads joined the team less then 10 days ago, we managed to make a reasonable release. They already contributed to some code in this 4.7! Usual stuff, the complete changelog is here [https:
Xen Orchestra 4.6 As promised, here it comes XO 4.6! The complete changelog is here [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#460-2015-09-25]. Mainly, this release is the result of a major bug hunt plus two new cool features. Tags management You can now use XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver]
Correlations on your infrastructure Correlations > (Noun) A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects Wiktionary [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/correlation] What about that? Well, you'll see, correlations are a very important thing to help you every day. We'll show you how we leverage the
The future of XenServer: Dundee Citrix just announced [http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/xenserver-dundee-beta-1-available.html] the availability of XenServer Dundee Beta 1. So we are moving toward to a release of this brand new XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver?pk_campaign=blog_dundee]. What does it mean in concrete terms? Let's explore it.
Xen Orchestra 4.5 XO 4.5 is out, 2 weeks after 4.4: we're back to our high release rate! And it doesn't mean we made only few things. Check the changelog [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#450-2015-09-11]: it's not bad at all
Track your VMs properties Coming (very soon) in the next release, a new dataviz. This one is based on " parallel coordinates" graph. Para.. what? Despite this is not the chart you'll see everyday, it's pretty common though. The idea is to visualize various data with various dimensions at
Faster consoles in XO Our previous console connection was done by using a component in XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver], named wsproxy. It was very simple to use, opposing to make a RAW HTTP connection. But the main drawbacks were: * slow to connect (~2 seconds to display the console) * not supported by Citrix * prone
Xen Orchestra 4.4 XO 4.4 is now available! The main features are the Single Sign On mechanism (SSO) and the first data visualization page. A dashboard view is also completing this release. SSO Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems (Wikipedia [https://en.
XenServer Challenge In July, we participated to an event: the Cloud Summer Camp at the ETNA School [http://www.etna-alternance.net/] (Paris). It's like a Hackathon for students. And the theme this year was XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver] and Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/]. It was a perfect opportunity
Security around Xen, XenServer and QEMU You probably heard a lot of stories lately around security concerns from QEMU flaws impacting Xen [http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/]. Let's take the time to understand what is really going on. We'll see first what about Xen project and also XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver?
VDI disk usage overview This is a follow up of my previous article about data-visualization [/blog/dashboard-and-dataviz/] for Xen Orchestra. This time, we'll explore how we use a Sunburst visualization to quickly understand your XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver] storage infrastructure usage. Visualize the whole infrastructure The challenge is to be able
