Dell Server admin tools (srvadmin) on Centos 5/XenServer
Recently, with the release of a new 8.x version of Dell SrvAdmin tools, the Centos/RHEL5 (and XenServer, by the way) repositories disappeared. It appears that Dell will not support the RHEL5.x brands anymore. The proper solution is to install the last 7 SrvAdmin tools, as can be shown in this site. This solves the problem…
XenServer 6.5 PCI-Passthrough
While searching the web for how to perform PCI-Passthrough on XenServers, we mostly get info about previous versions. Since I have just completed setting up PCI-Passthrough on XenServer version 6. 5 (with recent update 8, just to give you some notion of the exact time frame), I am sharing it here. Hardware: Cisco UCS blades,…
Redhat Cluster and Citrix XenServer
I wanted to write down a guide for RHCS on RHEL/Centos6 and XenServer. If you want to do that, you need to go through two major challenges which you will encounter. I want to save on the search and sum it all up together here. The first difficulty is the shared disk. In order to…
Clone corrupted disk in XenServer
Following some unknown problems, I had recently several XenServer machines (different clusters, different sites and customers, and even different versions) with a VDI-END-of-File issues. It means that while you can start the VM correctly, perform XenMotion to another server you are unable to do any storage-migration task – neither Storage XenMotion, nor VDI copy or…
XenServer and its damn too small system disks
I love XenServer. I love the product, I believe it to be a very good answer for SMBs, and enterprises. It lacks on external support, true, but the price tag for many of the ‘external capabilities’ on VMware, for instance, are very high, so many SMBs, especially, learn to live without them. XenServer gives a…