Richard Parmiter » Citrix XenServer http://www.parmiter.com Virtualisation blog and Knowledge Base Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:24:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Move VM from Hyper-V to XenServer http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2011/01/RP759 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2011/01/RP759#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:22:46 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=759 There is a way to move a virtual machine from Hyper-V to XenServer without the need for XenConvert. On Hyper-V do the following: Power off the VM Backup or migrate to a CIFS share The backup or CIFS share will include the VHD files for the hard disks (one VHD per virtual hard disk) On [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2011/01/RP759/feed 0 use xe.exe to start/shutdown vm’s on XenServer http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:37:06 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=732
I wanted to stress test a Citrix XenServer 5.6 computer to see how it copes with a number of simultaneou startup and shutdown requests. I also wanted to see the IOPS passed to back end storage where the virtual machine hard drives are stored. Rather than manually selecting the machine in XenCenter and shutting down [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732/feed 0 XenServer – Management NIC bonding problem http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2009/11/RP624 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2009/11/RP624#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:23:55 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=624 Have noticed this rather annoying bug with XenServer 5.5 Scenario If a pool of servers is created, and NIC 0+1 is bonded with the management interface running on this bonded network. All configuration steps were done from XenCenter Problem A new XenServer is added to the pool, the NICs are un-bonded before adding it to [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2009/11/RP624/feed 0 A comparison of important features between Citrix XenServer 5, Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0 and ESXi 3.5u3 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2008/11/RP531 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2008/11/RP531#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:29:30 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=531 Originally posted here]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2008/11/RP531/feed 0 Comparison of XenServer 5.0 Versions http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2008/11/RP527 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2008/11/RP527#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:57:32 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=527 Compare Citrix XenServer Editions Express Edition Standard Edition Enterprise Edition Platinum Edition Feature Native 64-bit Xen hypervisor • • • • Windows and Linux guests • • • • XenCenter unified virtualization management console • • • • XenAPI management and control scripting interface • • • • Multi-server management • • • Resource pools [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2008/11/RP527/feed 0