Use fdisk to know what is the disk available to create a storage repository: fdisk -lfdisk -l Find which device is your new local disk, example Disk /dev/md3: 1991.8 GB, 1991804649472 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 486280432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytesDisk /dev/md3: 1991.8 GB, 1991804649472 bytes 2 heads, […]
This script will retrieve and apply all of the latest hotfixes for Citrix XenServer: xs_patcher – XenServer Automated Patcher I am copying the content of the script (xs_patcher.sh) here: #!/bin/bash ## xs_patcher ## detects xenserver version and applies the appropriate patches HOSTID=`xe host-list –minimal` HOSTNAME=`hostname` function get_xs_version { get_version=`cat /etc/redhat-release | awk -F’-‘ […]
This is the URL used by the XenCenter to check for updates: http://updates.xensource.com/XenServer/updates.xmlhttp://updates.xensource.com/XenServer/updates.xml You can use it to parse updates needed for your XenServer version. More information can be found here: Automatically Detecting Available Updates
Go to Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 Knowledge Center URL. We will try to install this XenServer hotfix: Hotfix XS62ESP1002 – For XenServer 6.2.0 Service Pack 1Hotfix XS62ESP1002 – For XenServer 6.2.0 Service Pack 1 Go to the hotfix URL: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140051 Move with the mouse over the download button and capture the download URL: http://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/8737/XS62ESP1002.ziphttp://downloadns.citrix.com.edgesuite.net/8737/XS62ESP1002.zip Then login […]
When you buy new IP FailOvers (RIPE IPs divided in FailOvers) from OVH, you may need to add these IP addresses in the XenServer network as virtual interfaces (eth0:1, eth0:2, eth0:3, etc), to be able to ping them, as described in this tutorial: http://help.ovh.co.uk/IpAlias Login with SSH to your XenServer and then type: cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts […]
Connect with SSH to the XenServer and then type: cd /var/opt/xen/iso_importcd /var/opt/xen/iso_import Download ISO file of Debian Wheezy 7.3.0 (Multi Architecture): wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-amd64-i386-netinst.isowget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso Open XenCenter, connect to the XenServer, select MyISORepository and click on Rescan. You should see the ISO file named debian-7.3.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso present in the list. Now create a new virtual machine and […]
Start the virtual machine and edit the file: /etc/network/interfaces/etc/network/interfaces Make sure its content is same as this (change the needed fields): # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback […]
Visit with your web browser the IP address where is installed XenServer: Download and install the XenCenter installer. Open XenCenter and select Server->Add to connect to your Xen server. When you are connected with your server you can start to create virtual machines. Select the server and click on VM->New VM…: Enter a name for […]