The latest dev report before a release! We are almost there :) So, what's new? Heatmap is back We replaced the previous heatmap with a brand new one, with: * better colors * waaaay faster metrics fetching time Visual example, for our mail server, with the network input on the last

Third dev report! You can check dev report 1 [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/dev-report-1-on-xen-orchestra-5-0/] and dev report 2 [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/dev-report-2-on-xen-orchestra-5-0/] if you missed them! Let's see what's new on the performance side. And because we have some users willing to let us test,

Now XenServer 7 is here [/blog/xenserver-7], you'll probably wonder how to upgrade your existing hosts. That's a big release, so upgrading will be a bit more complicated than from 6.2 to 6.5, due to the new partition scheme. Before upgrading Download You can

XenServer 7 (aka "Dundee") is officially available! [http://xenserver.org/blog.html?view=entry&id=118] Download You can download it here: http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/11616/XenServer-7.0.0-main.iso What's inside This new release is great, for multiple reasons: more stable,

Hi everyone! Here is a new report on our work to release a Xen Orchestra 5.0. This time, we are talking about a big change from all previous versions, even those from the beginning. We could say a new paradigm: to be "search" centered in the home

Hi everyone, 4.16 is mainly a maintenance release to fix some issues. We are also fully dedicated on the new 5.0 and its brand new interface. By the way, this month was really interesting for the project, because: * we were at the Xen Hackathon 2016 [/blog/xen-hackathon-2016/] * and

Almost 2 years ago, we published a blog post [/blog/xo-4-x-goals/] about our objectives for Xen Orchestra 4.x branch. We made even more than we thought on it. And now, it's time for our goals on the 5.x branch. It doesn't mean everything will

This article is a small recap about our participation in the last Xen Hackathon, located at ARM Ltd. in Cambridge. > Hackathon: an event, typically lasting several days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming. This is a very accurate description of what

Hello everyone! This is a blog post about our progress on Xen Orchestra 5.0, which is a complete rewrite of the web interface, from scratch (for those who wonder why, read this previous post about announcing Xen Orchestra 5.x [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/announcing-xen-orchestra-5-x/]). Before releasing it, we

This post is a sequel of our load balancing introduction with XenServer [/blog/load-balancing-with-xo/]. This time, we'll explore the Xen Orchestra [https://xen-rchestra.com] density mode for your XenServer hosts. But why green IT? Because we are about to shutdown your useless hosts "on the fly"

XO 4.15 is out, with a beta of the load balancer, a new dashboard for the self-service, and also a nice list of new stuff: * XenServer VM load balancing [/blog/load-balancing-with-xo/] * Migration queue [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/beyond-xenserver-limits/] for Storage XenMotion * a complete rework of the XenServer network management

Hi everyone! Today, I'll introduce you a new feature of Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com]: live load balancing of your XenServer VMs. As usual here, we'll first explore quickly the concept of load balancing, then the problems, and finally our solution. Concepts Starting with Wikipedia [https:

If you are using extensively the Storage XenMotion feature [https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/products-solutions/storage-xenmotion-live-storage-migration-with-citrix-xenserver.pdf?accessmode=direct] in XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver], you probably encountered some limitations. Let's recap first what is XenServer [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xenserver] Storage XenMotion and

Coming for the Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com] next release (4.15), here is a dashboard dedicated to the resource usage of your configured self-service for XenServer. You can read a recap of the feature itself in our previous blog post: XenServer self service portal [/blog/xenserver-self-service-portal/]. Let's

XO 4.14 is now available with a brand new self-service system plus a full CloudInit support. And as usual, bug fixes and various enhancements. Self-service This is a feature we wanted for a long time. But it's not trivial. Users creating VMs leads to a lot of

This is something our Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com] users asked for a long time: a self service portal for creating VMs without bothering the system administrator. But this is not something you make in few minutes, because giving access to VM creation means resource usage, and maybe uncontrolled resource

This is a new article, related to our previous CloudInit [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/cloudinit-support-for-xenserver/] introduction, and how it works thanks to Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com]: without any extra plugin to install on your hosts! Also, if you need help to build a template (or to download our cloud

Welcome to XO 4.13! This one is all about security, stability and fixes, plus UI improvements. One of the major feature is the possibility to use SMB remote for full backups. SMB remotes You can add SMB (ex-CIFS) remotes for your backups. It doesn't work yet with

Here is a new set of benchmarks using latest XenServer Beta (Dundee Beta 2), comparing Xen in PV and PVHVM modes[1]. And on a decent hardware (Haswell CPU with AVX2 instructions). Last benchmarks we made 2 years ago [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/debian-pvhvm-vs-pv/] gave roughly +15% boost on PVHVM

Happy new year! And happy new release :) This one add 2 major things: continuous replication and continuous delta backup for your XenServer hosts. Without having any extra hardware or software to install, only with Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_4.12]. VM Continuous replication Protect your VMs

What about having a continuous replication system for your XenServer VMs without any storage vendor lock-in? We just did it in Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_continuous_replication]. You can now replicate a VM every xx minutes/hours on a any storage repository. It could be on

Less than one month after our first release of XenServer incremental backup [/blog/xenserver-incremental-backup/], we made a major improvement inside Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_continuous_backup]: Continuous Delta Backup. And we are very happy to present you this exclusive feature on XenServer! It means to backup

Do you ever wanted to create multiple XenServer VMs at once? Until now, you needed to repeat the operation as often as necessary. Boring when you need to create 10 or even 100 VMs! What about now? We added an option inside Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_

By ready, we mean: * from the click on "Create VM" * to a SSH access on a 100% working system And also from a generic template: which we can select the disk size dynamically and RAM/CPU. How can it be possible? Using CloudInit! You can find working templates

TL;DR: a working and validated Debian 8 (Jessie) template is available here [https://cloud.vates.fr/index.php/s/jynIvCjhso47nR8/download] if you want. The story continue, after implementing the XenServer Cloud Init support [https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/cloudinit-support-for-xenserver/] in Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_cloud_