Xen Orchestra 4.11

Last release of the year! This 4.11 is among the biggest releases ever (45 issues/enhancements closed!) Some features of this version: * Delta backup * CloudInit support * Improved filtered search * XMPP alert plugin * VDI resizing and moving (working on any XenServer version!) * better XenServer 6.1/6.2 support The

Backup

XenServer incremental backup

Incremental backup is now possible with XenServer and Xen Orchestra.

CentOS cloud template for XenServer

TL;DR: a working template is available here [https://cloud.vates.fr/index.php/s/NoUNeaP24wf33Bn/download] if you want. 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_centos], let's see now how to

CloudInit support for XenServer

We are proud to announce that you can now use the CloudInit system with XenServer, without any plugin to install on your hosts. Only by using Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_cloud_support]. Let's see what it can do for you and how to use

Moving a VDI offline in XenServer

As you may know in XenServer, you can move a VDI -from a running VM- to another SR (Storage Repository). We exposed this feature almost 1 year ago in our article explaining how to move a VDI in live [blog/moving-vdi-in-live/]. But what about a VDI on a halted VM?

Set the XenServer default SR

💡This guide is 100% compatible with XCP-ng. In XenServer, the default SR (Storage Repository) is where your VDIs are stored by default. It's very useful for a lot of things, avoiding the user to configure itself for each operation. With Xen Orchestra Just go inside your pool view,

Recover or reinstall your XenServer PV VMs

This blog post will explain how to deal with your existing PV guests, when they can't boot anymore. The problem Typically, when you failed your installation of a PV guest, you got: The bootloader for this VM returned an error -- did the VM installation succeed? Error from

Improved search for your XenServer infrastructure

Here is some news about a nice improvement coming in the next version of Xen Orchestra: an improved search bar. Our previous search system worked for filtering in live VM/host/SR/pool name, IP address, tags and whatever inside those objects. But what about advanced requests? We wanted to

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