A really nice thing about XO is you can import and not power on.

So you can remove the NIC and then power on. If it works, you know you're in good shape.

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer backup: XenToolBox:

@scottalanmiller I have zero experience with XTB & that's what prompted my initial question.

That's worth something. I'm just wondering what we should be looking for. What's the proposed value. Without knowing that, it's easy to overlook during testing.

I think I'm in the twilight zone today, found a 750GB USB drive that's showing up as 5.5TB. Maybe I should've just taken a vacation day today.

slideshare = linkedin

@JaredBusch said in Why HALizard and XenServer Failed so heavily:

@Dashrender said in Why HALizard and XenServer Failed so heavily:

Considering the industry standard to run VM hosts from USB sticks/SD cards.

No it is not. Never has been. I've debated this back and forth with @scottalanmiller more than once.

Hopefully his recent post today clarifies that.

yep, it does.

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer Import Disk Failure:

But unlike ESXi that simply blocks things that they don't want you to do, XS just stops making it easy.

Well, if none of the stuff anyone tried to do works, maybe they SHOULD block it! 🙂

@JaredBusch said in XenServer 7.0: clone USB (without removing):

@BRRABill said in XenServer 7.0: clone USB (without removing):

@JaredBusch said

Sorry. Cannot do that.

Cannot do what?

Get back to the problem

You take your thread hating ... hate elsewhere!

@Dashrender said in XenServer Live Adjust capacity of drive that is shared:

Would he really need to reboot if he's adding another 'disk' copying data the removing the old disk?

Depends on the guest OS and applications using said space.

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer: MD RAID or not?:

Maybe use @francesco provino blog post as a starting point
http://www.francescoprovino.com/2016/09/06/xenserver-7-software-raid-with-mail-alert/

I think that needs a little fleshed out for the newbies.

But yes, that might be a good starting point.

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer: Backup & Replication:

I assumed we "are" talking about 7.0?

Yes, it works on XS7.

@DustinB3403 was running into the same issues I was on 6.5.

There is dicsussion that some other process is changing it back, but we have not started to troubleshoot that. (I no longer have any XS6.5 boxes here.)

So I was able to make another array, and was also able to make an SR on that array. It's still strange that I'm not able to use thin provisioning by default on install, but for now, it's working.

@JaredBusch said in How to copy files out of a VM that must remain off network:

@DustinB3403 said in How to copy files out of a VM that must remain off network:

@JaredBusch said in How to copy files out of a VM that must remain off network:

Another option would be to simply disconnect the network in the VM settings and then pass through a USB or something.

I've considered that in the past, but passing a generic USB through without a PCI card in between in a major pain.

It is simple on ESXi and generally not a problem on Hyper-V. I still do not have my home office setup to bring XS7 online yet, so cannot say there.

That is assuming you have physical access to the hardware.

Same with KVM. Just plug it in and pick the USB device.

@DustinB3403 said in RDP support for VMs or Console only Access:

Opening up RDP access (not necessarily from the Internet) but in general just opens more ports, more firewall changes etc.

Sure, but granting unnecessary access to the console does that, too. You need access to the VMs from far more places than you need it to the console.

But real XS does have the SMB based ISO mount, it's just not made available for the production storage.

@BRRABill said in Xenserver feedback: Paging @BRRABILL:

We're still posting here about stuff we investigated months ago.

Breaking new ground has to happen somewhere.

Some useful logging here for my XenPool with HALizard.

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@dafyre said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

@BRRABill said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer:

I am the new King of Open Source.

H aha ha. How's that?

It's my answer to anything.

Need a new logging server? Open Source!

Need a new XXXXXX? Open Source!

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer Host to Host Migration Questions:

nciple, but I find it getting harder to do conside

Well since this will be my first venture into using a video server, not sure how much system to give something like that.

@KOOLER said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

@whizzard said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

In scenarios such as these what would be the recommended backup approach: DAS, NAS, Backup Appliance, lower end server, removable disk storage, tapes (intentionally left out cloud)?

Should be separate (physically!) entity non-related to your production cluster. Cheap NAS is OK.

For the average scenario (and I really just mean average) it's Synology or ReadyNAS that I recommend. Easy, supported, cost effective, desktop or rackmount options, well known, good brands, nice features.

Duh here is a guide I actually wrote...

https://mangolassi.it/topic/7785/how-to-configure-gmail-smtp-on-xenserver-6-5-to-monitor-and-alert-about-your-mdadm-array