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_

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

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

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

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?

💡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,

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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_