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Xenserver Howtos

Xenserver and Xen Cloud Platform howtos. Most of these howtos are up to date for Xenserver 6.5 (Creedence). However, the ones I use less may not currently but as I get to them I'll update them.

Xen Cloud Platform is the free/open community driven version of Citrix Xenserver.  I've moved all of my Xen Virtual Machines to Xen cloud Platform so any future tutorials will most likely be about XCP. I've found XCP to be a wonderful product but not necessarily an easy tool sometimes thus the tutorials you see below.

Citrix Xenserver has been opensourced and thus there's no need for Xen Cloud Platform any longer. Most of the tutorials here work on both but all future tutorials will be targeting Xenserver. As time permits I'm updating tutorials for Xenserver 6.5 (Creedence) - Jan 15, 2014.

How to get started: Go to xenserver.org and download the latest ISO disk image of Xenserver and install it on a machine. If you don't have a CD drive on your Xenserver host put the installer on a USB drive. It uses the whole machine as it's an appliance so beware. By the way I think this is the best design strategy. It's a good idea to let your Hypervisor/Cloud stack focus on what it's good at and not use it for playing World of Warcraft. ;-)

Expect a great deal more Howtos in the future. Feel free to request them as well. If it's within scope of what I'm doing I may create one just for you.

 These tutorials can also be found on the Xenapi Admin Project website and the XCP wiki.

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Title Published Date Hits
Access VHD VDIs from the Control Domain Jan 12, 2013 Hits: 11016
Add a CD to a VM Nov 01, 2012 Hits: 9499
Add a hard disk to a VM Nov 05, 2012 Hits: 17488
Apply hotfixes to XCP 1.6 Mar 26, 2013 Hits: 10079
Automated install of CentOS 6 VM (32 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 12988
Automated install of CentOS 6 VM (64 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 27896
Automated install of CentOS 7 VM (64 bit) Nov 17, 2014 Hits: 14067
Automated install of Debian Wheezy VM (64 bit) using preseed Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 7917
Automated install of Fedora 20 VM (32 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 8026
Automated install of Fedora 20 VM (32 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 8742
Automated install of Fedora 20 VM (64 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 9681
Automated install of Kali Linux VM (64 bit) using preseed Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 16038
Automated install of Ubuntu 12.04 VM (32 bit) using preseed Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 9938
Automated install of Ubuntu 12.04 VM (64 bit) using kickstart Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 13878
Automated install of Ubuntu 12.04 VM (64 bit) using preseed Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 11219
Copy of Automated install of CentOS 7 VM (64 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 5014
Create an EXT CD repository Oct 29, 2012 Hits: 7739
Create an iSCSI target on a Control Domain Oct 13, 2011 Hits: 13413
Create an LVM CD repository Oct 29, 2012 Hits: 8463
Create an NFS CD repository Oct 28, 2012 Hits: 9432
Create custom templates Dec 25, 2011 Hits: 14556
Fix the XCP expired license issue Dec 15, 2011 Hits: 10028
How to manage VM images on XCP Dec 25, 2011 Hits: 4302
Install git on XCP/Xenserver host Jan 26, 2013 Hits: 10086
Install xe on CentOS6 Jan 13, 2014 Hits: 10702
Install Xenapi Admin Tools from github Jan 23, 2013 Hits: 6743
Install Xenserver from a USB thumbdrive Dec 03, 2012 Hits: 12089
Install Xenserver Hotfixes to XCP Jun 08, 2013 Hits: 4984
Install XenWebManager Appliance Apr 08, 2013 Hits: 12076
Install XenWebManager on XCP host Apr 08, 2013 Hits: 9707
Install XVP Appliance Feb 15, 2013 Hits: 13316
Interactive install of OpenSuse 11.4 VM (64 bit) Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 10922
Make VMs autoboot Apr 01, 2013 Hits: 8651
OpenSuse 11.4 VM (64 bit) automated installation on XCP Nov 17, 2011 Hits: 4482
Reboot stuck VMs Aug 20, 2012 Hits: 9905

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