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Mapping internal (SATA, SAS, RAID, etc) disks from XenServer host to VM

In my post here, I have explained (actually – created a shell script) to map USB disks to VMs directly. While this is easy and simple, it becomes more challenging when you want to map internal SATA disks. They are not attached to the “Removable Storage” SR, and thus, behave differently. The solution is to…

Moving Exchange Data

Lets assume you have a method of point-in-time copy of Microsoft Exchange DB and logs, while the system is running, to an alternate server. Let’s assume, if we’re at that, that this point-in-time is consistent, and that you can mount this store (depending on using the similar directory structure, etc.), on an alternate server, and…