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…
Unlike previous versions, VMs do not have a visible property in the GUI allowing autostart. This has been claimed to collide with the HA function of the licensed version. While I believe there is a more elegant way of doing that (like – ignoring this property if HA is enabled), the following method can allow…
As my work takes me to various places (where technology is concerned), I collect lots of browser tab of things I want to keep for later reference. I have to admit, sadly, that I lack the time to sort them out, to make a real good and nice post about them. I do not want…
It has been long since I had the time to write here. I have recently been involved more and more with XenServer virtualization, as you might see in the blogs, and following a solution to a rather common problem, I have decided to post it here. The problem: When attempting to boot a Linux VM…
It has been a long while, I know. I was busy with life, work and everything around it. Not much worth mentioning. This, however, is something else. I have discovered an issue with Citrix XenServer 5.0 (probably the case with 5.5, but I have other issues with that release) using NetApp through NetApp API SR…
XenServer is a wonderful tool. One of the better parts of it is its powerful scripting language, powered by the ‘xe’ command. In order to capture a mass of snapshots, you can either do it manually from the GUI, or scripted. The script supplied below will include shell functions to capture Quiesce snapshots, and it…
