Blog posts tagged with 'xencenter'
As part of the XenServer 5 release, several new features have been added to XenCenter.
Here is a brief summary of the new XenCenter 5 features -
- Powerful, Self-healing Management Architecture
Unlike other management consoles, XenCenter distributes management data across servers in a resource pool to ensure there is no single point of management failure. If a management server should fail, any other server in the pool can take over the management role.
- Search, Sort and Tag
User-defined grouping and metadata tags allows simple, powerful searching and sorting capabilities across virtual machines, hosts and resource pools based on custom fields to help administrators easily identify and manage virtual infrastructure.
- Performance Monitoring and Trending
XenServer adds new enhanced performance monitoring, reporting and alerting dashboards that make it easy for IT professionals to see both real-time and historical views of virtual machines and physical host performance over long periods of time with virtually no storage or performance overhead.
- Physical to Virtual
Use the new XenConvert feature to move existing physical server workloads to XenServer virtual infrastructure in no time with. Tools are also available to convert other virtual machines to run on XenServer.
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Visit XenServer5.com to see video demos of the new XenCenter and the other new features of XenServer 5.
This tip shows you how to connect remotely to XenServer Configuration Console GUI from XenCenter and save a trip to the Datacenter.
UPDATE
Adding the command line to be typed for Copy & Paste purposes...
/usr/bin/xsconsole
best,
Gus
After the Disaster Recovery and High Availabilty videos I posted last week, it's time to show you some more changes in the upcoming XenServer release.
This video is a GUI walktrough and will highlight the changes in the improved XenCenter which will ship with the XenServer "Orlando" release.
For those who want this and the other videos in a slightly bigger format, please visit my page on the Citrix Video Tips site.
Border Gateway Protocol, open-source and it's para-virtualized. No more proprietary software and hardware, you can run as many copies of this as needed on one physical XenServer machine. As a proof point, we used the Vyatta Open Source router to build out our Link Load Balancing network in Santa Clara. The Open Source Vyatta is running on a Dell server. We configured the BGP routing protocol, but could have have also configured OSPF or RIP and redistributed the routes. This configuration has been proven to outperform the incumbents, and is less costly by a wide margin. Reduce opex and capex and start rolling this out today.
What is needed:
- Vyatta Open Source Networking Software
- A Dell Server that supports Virtualization
- XenServer Enterprise 4.1
The Network:
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We are all used to the familiar commands to configure IP Addressing on *nix and *dows types of systems, however there is a little bit of a trick involved with XenServer.
Imagine if you had built your XenServer in one location and then transported it to another location where a different IP Addressing scheme was being used. In order to have XenCenter come in contact with the XenServer again, you will need to re-configure the Management IP Address. Since you probably won't RTM, and you don't want to rip your hair out trying to figure it out, the steps are outlined in this XenServer Tip.
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XenCenter has a simple and intuitive UI. However when problems happen, the log tab sometimes doesn't contain enough information to help with debugging the issues. I found it very useful to take a look at the debug log in %appdata%\Citrix\XenCenter\logs\XenCenter.log. For example, the log file may be in C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Citrix\XenCenter\logs directory. Please note that Application Data directory may be hidden.
Here is an example of what's contained in the log:
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2008-06-10 10:02:05,579 INFO Audit [Main program thread] - Operation started: ImportVmAction: pdxen2: Pool 95e79feb-a2fd-f744-8f03-a47ce57a2d2e (): Host 817c97de-2b6d-4670-a00d-0dcccff42531 (pdxen2): Preparing to Import VM
2008-06-10 10:02:06,016 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.ImportVmAction [7428] - Importing Rio-style XVA from C:\XenVm\Auto-Win2K3-R2-SP2-32bit-TS-IIS-.NET-SysPrep.xva to SR 10.2.248.123_local
2008-06-10 10:02:06,016 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.ImportVmAction [7428] - SR is not shared -- redirecting to 10.2.248.123
2008-06-10 10:02:06,016 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.ImportVmAction [7428] - Using https://10.2.248.123:443/import?session_id=OpaqueRef%3A4769e023-7c64-ca54-f6e0-e257b8be522f&sr_id=OpaqueRef%3A2fc1e3d8-0763-0099-7151-98f4610f37b1 for import
2008-06-10 10:02:06,063 DEBUG XenAdmin.Network.HTTP [7428] - HTTP PUTTING file from C:\XenVm\Auto-Win2K3-R2-SP2-32bit-TS-IIS-.NET-SysPrep.xva to https://10.2.248.123/import?session_id=OpaqueRef:4769e023-7c64-ca54-f6e0-e257b8be522f&sr_id=OpaqueRef:2fc1e3d8-0763-0099-7151-98f4610f37b1&task_id=OpaqueRef:1160c6fb-4a03-39c4-3336-0973573958c2
2008-06-10 10:02:25,469 DEBUG XenAdmin.Actions.AsyncAction [Main program thread] - AsyncAction.Cancel() was called. Attempting to cancel action
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