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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill
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      And to be clear, there is no reinstall of XS on an existing drive, right?

      It trashes whatever you install it on?

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      • travisdh1T
        travisdh1 @BRRABill
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        @BRRABill said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

        And to be clear, there is no reinstall of XS on an existing drive, right?

        It trashes whatever you install it on?

        Right. Thankfully, it is really easy to make an exact copy of the XenServer drive. Hrm, I actually need to do that tody. I'll try to take screenshots and do a how-to type writup.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @travisdh1
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          @travisdh1

          See here

          http://mangolassi.it/topic/8537/how-to-clone-a-xen-usb-on-windows

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          • travisdh1T
            travisdh1 @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

            @travisdh1

            See here

            http://mangolassi.it/topic/8537/how-to-clone-a-xen-usb-on-windows

            Well, that's one less thing for me to document here 🙂 Then again, I'm going to be doing this on a live, running XenServer (LVM is great, you should sing it's praises.)

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill
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              For me, it's just another way of doing things the way I am used to doing them, instead of using the easy way already built in.

              I can take my server down for a bit if I need to, so just shut down the VM, copy it to my test XS setup, redo my array, install XS to USB, and copy the VM back. Easy, and all built-in.

              Why try to do something any harder?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                last edited by

                @BRRABill said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

                For me, it's just another way of doing things the way I am used to doing them, instead of using the easy way already built in.

                I can take my server down for a bit if I need to, so just shut down the VM, copy it to my test XS setup, redo my array, install XS to USB, and copy the VM back. Easy, and all built-in.

                Why try to do something any harder?

                Because it isn't harder, it's easier. none of the steps that you mention are easy in a failure condition.

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                • BRRABillB
                  BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said

                  Because it isn't harder, it's easier. none of the steps that you mention are easy in a failure condition.

                  I meant moving my install from the array to USB. But you are right in your comment as well.

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                  • BRRABillB
                    BRRABill
                    last edited by

                    When you copy/export a VM, does it also copy removable storage you have attached?

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                    • BRRABillB
                      BRRABill @BRRABill
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                      @BRRABill said

                      When you copy/export a VM, does it also copy removable storage you have attached?

                      Well, I figured this one out for myself. Yes, yes it does.

                      I have my Tandberg drive hooked up to this one VM I am trying to copy. I kept wondering why it needed so much space to copy. Then I removed the Tandberg from the list of VDs, and voila, the space needed was way down.

                      So that's kind of wierd. Does it convert the removable into permanent in the copy?

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @BRRABill
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                        @BRRABill I doubt that it converts it from removable to "internal" but it would have to create the backup with everything as attached.

                        Otherwise what good is it?

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                        • BRRABillB
                          BRRABill @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

                          @BRRABill I doubt that it converts it from removable to "internal" but it would have to create the backup with everything as attached.

                          Otherwise what good is it?

                          But it is an attached USB drive. How could the copy access that?

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
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                            That I'm not certain of, likely what is happening is the USB and connections are being recorded for recovery purposes.

                            How it gets "restored" and saved I have no idea.

                            How are you passing USB to your guests?

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                            • BRRABillB
                              BRRABill @DustinB3403
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                              @DustinB3403 said

                              How are you passing USB to your guests?

                              I go to attach, and the removable USB drive is there.

                              I wonder if it was a straight USB drive if it would show up. (The Tandberg actually uses removable disks, so I'm not sure if it considers that differently.)

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                              • BRRABillB
                                BRRABill
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                                • BRRABillB
                                  BRRABill @DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  @DustinB3403 said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

                                  That I'm not certain of, likely what is happening is the USB and connections are being recorded for recovery purposes.

                                  How it gets "restored" and saved I have no idea.

                                  Might be a good question for @olivier to answer, if he knows. (Which he probably does!)

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                                  • BRRABillB
                                    BRRABill
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                                    Today, I redid my test server to boot from USB.

                                    Everything went well.

                                    Except now everything is SO SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

                                    Booting takes so much longer. It's been installing SP1 for what seems like forever at this point.

                                    I guess I got spoiled by the SSD.

                                    The good new is: how often will I ever have to reboot, or install updates, right, RIGHT?

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      I don't have any major slowness booting my system. It might be your hardware, that is causing the issue. Startup checks etc.

                                      Rebooting still has to occur regularly.

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                                      • BRRABillB
                                        BRRABill @DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        @DustinB3403 said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

                                        I don't have any major slowness booting my system. It might be your hardware, that is causing the issue. Startup checks etc.

                                        It's the same hardware as before.

                                        I really think it's just the incredible slowness of USB vs. SSD.

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                                        • dafyreD
                                          dafyre @BRRABill
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                                          @BRRABill said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

                                          I don't have any major slowness booting my system. It might be your hardware, that is causing the issue. Startup checks etc.

                                          It's the same hardware as before.

                                          I really think it's just the incredible slowness of USB vs. SSD.

                                          It could also be USB2 vs USB3. USB3 is almost as fast as a hard drive on my home computer. USB2 crawls big time.

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                                          • BRRABillB
                                            BRRABill @dafyre
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                                            @dafyre said

                                            It could also be USB2 vs USB3. USB3 is almost as fast as a hard drive on my home computer. USB2 crawls big time.

                                            Yeah USB2 sucks, and it's the only option on this brand new server.

                                            I actually discussed that with @scottalanmiller offline, and his take was ... you should never be using USB on a server anyway. (I had questioned why in the world they wouldn't have used USB3.)

                                            I promised him I'd never send him a picture of my server room. 🙂

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