ah ok, thanks for the information.

@rongage I don't know if anyone else has it working correctly on CentOS Stream 9. I know that it works on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu, so why not try one of those?

With classical export (ie VHD and without NBD) you cannot "resume" a backup. Now it's possible (technically with NBD) but it's not done (yet). But we improved a lot the retry vs the original backups in VHD.

I don't "need" to deploy with xo-lite I just wanted to report it in case it was a bug with static ip configuration.

In theory, like thinking on top of my head, an agent in the physical machine that will be able to replicate the VM files in the same format than the XO backup, with also the "machine metadata" (CPU, RAM etc.).

Then, if something goes wrong, you could restore a backup as a VM from the real machine.

@olivierlambert thanks for the quick reply Olivier,

We have cloudinit working for Linux as that is working like a charm, hopefully a MS cloudinit god will reply and will be able to help me out 🙂

@Andrew it was related to a switch configuration mistake, thanks anyways.

@joehays https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-93/

Yes, you can ignore static min, 99% of the time it's not relevant.

My apologies @Danp , I had misunderstood the comments on the other commands in that KB article.

Good news, things are working, but it didn't seem like they would be.

xoa run npm i -g --unsafe-perm https://xen-orchestra.com/xoa-updater.tgz Seemed to work. I was then able to run systemctl restart xoa-updater and xoa-updater --upgrade.

After the upgrade command, this is the feedback:

xoa:xoa$ xoa-updater --upgrade stable channel selected Downloading packages... xen-orchestra 5.95.2 . ok ✔ xo-server-telemetry 0.5.0 ...................................... ok ✔ xen-orchestra-web 0.0.3 ................................................... ok ✔ xo-server-xoa 0.29.0 .................................................................................................................. ok ✔ xo-web-free 5.147.0 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ok ✔ xoa-cli 0.38.2 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ok ✔ xen-orchestra-upload-ova 0.1.6 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ok ✔ Following packages will be removed: xoa-updater 0.50.0 Removing packages... Saving current updater version in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xoa-updater-previous ...ok ✔ xoa-updater ✔ New versions available: node 18.20.2 (18.19.1 installed) npm 10.5.0 (10.2.4 installed) Downloading packages... node 18.20.2 ...... ok ✔ npm 10.5.0 .................................................................................................................................................................. ok ✔ Installing packages... Upgrading Node/npm failed, re-installing old packages Command failed with exit code 1: npm i -g --unsafe-perm --quiet /tmp/xoa-updater/node-18.20.2.tgz npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c ./installer npm ERR! installing : node-v18.20.2 npm ERR! curl: (28) Failed to connect to nodejs.org port 443 after 261014 ms: Couldn't connect to server npm ERR! npm ERR! Error: download preflight failed for '18.20.2' (https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.2/node-v18.20.2-linux-x64.tar.xz) npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /tmp/.npm/_logs/2024-09-01T16_42_27_685Z-debug-0.log New packages available: xoa-updater 0.50.0 Downloading packages... Installing packages... xoa-updater ✔ xoa-updater ✔ ✖ { message: 'Command failed with exit code 1: npm i -g --unsafe-perm --quiet /tmp/xoa-updater/node-18.20.2.tgz\n' + 'npm ERR! code 1\n' + 'npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node\n' + 'npm ERR! command failed\n' + 'npm ERR! command sh -c ./installer\n' + 'npm ERR! installing : node-v18.20.2\n' + "npm ERR! curl: (28) Failed to connect to nodejs.org port 443 after 261014 ms: Couldn't connect to server\n" + 'npm ERR! \n' + "npm ERR! Error: download preflight failed for '18.20.2' (https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.2/node-v18.20.2-linux-x64.tar.xz)\n" + '\n' + 'npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /tmp/.npm/_logs/2024-09-01T16_42_27_685Z-debug-0.log' }

At this point I thought there was a failure - but then I was able to run systemctl restart xo-server.service and access both the current web UI and the v6 UI.

I'm interested in trying the newer v6 features, so I just changed from the stable channel to latest using the web UI and ran upgrade - but it gave me an error:

9/1/2024, 1:02:48 PM: New versions available: 9/1/2024, 1:02:48 PM: xoa-updater 0.50.1 (0.50.0 installed) 9/1/2024, 1:02:48 PM: Downloading packages... 9/1/2024, 1:02:49 PM: xoa-updater 0.50.1 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... ok ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:02:49 PM: Installing packages... 9/1/2024, 1:03:02 PM: Saving current updater version in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xoa-updater-previous ...ok ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:03:03 PM: xoa-updater ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:03:14 PM: xoa-updater ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:03:14 PM: Lost connection with xoa-updater 9/1/2024, 1:03:14 PM: xoa-updater could not be reached

Using ssh I went back to the command line and ran xoa-updater --upgrade again and this time it is proceeding forward.

And now it all works! Very weird. I think I'm in good shape now.

@nicolas Yes, that is essentially what was shown in the link. Note: the developers have warned to be careful using this technique because the disk is in a paused state for a reason, so simply clearing the flag could lead to unintended consequences.

Alternatively, you can try running this command --

/opt/xensource/sm/resetvdis.py single <VDI UUID>

@billcouper I 100% agree with you.

I will add to this that it would be amazing if RX and TX nic/SFP errors could be made visible in the interface as well. reason why i mention this is we recently had a problem on one of our hosts storage links where due to a dirty fiber we had some problems (vm's going to read only, crashes, very poor IO). Due to how dom0 sits as a VM we could not get stats off a nic using ethtool or snmp. It took WAY to much trouble shooting to figure out that our issues was caused by a dirty fiber on the servers side.

the more native/local self monitoring/alerting xcp-ng and XOA can do, the better.

Happy you have a better experience with Citrix than we had, but in their favour that pushed us to Vates and we've been happy ever since 🙂

Issue created, we should have a fix for a next release (likely September release)

I do run XOA on its own dedicated host/dedicated pool, so the xcp-ng cpu scheduler does not cause issues with other busy production VM's while backup tasks are happening. this also allows XOA to use 100% of cpu cores making backups (especially with compression on) faster.

xoa does DR back up to the primary pool in case something happens to the host its running on.

Yes, you can always export/import the config on a working install. So it's a problem on your build, it's really hard to tell where's the culprit (because you built it, you see why we distribute it via XOA for production/professional usage 😄 )

@olivierlambert Yes, this worked great! I’ll just keep both until v6 releases.

Hello @someone2b,

Marc here, CMO of Vates. I wanted to provide some clarity on our new pricing structure and the reasoning behind these changes.

Here are a few key points that led to our decision:

In 2022, half of the support requests from Xen Orchestra customers were actually related to issues with the hypervisor layer, which aren't covered by standalone Xen Orchestra support.

We've seen an increase in requests for XCP-ng support from users who only seek help after encountering issues in their infrastructure.

XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra have become deeply integrated, making it increasingly challenging for our team to effectively support Xen Orchestra without also addressing the virtualization platform.

We’ve also redesigned our business model to be more equitable, particularly for smaller infrastructures. For those with 10 hosts or fewer, the new pricing is actually lower than the previous cost of purchasing XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra separately.

That being said, we didn't forgot as well all the remaining XenServer users out there and we are currently working on to have a secure and affordable path forward for them as well. If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our sales team at sales@vates.tech.

Marc

@omatsei I figured out the problem. There appears to be a bug in XO that requires you to check "Check Certificate" and/or "Start TLS", save the configuration, then uncheck them, then save again. Then it should work. The bug is that they're unchecked by default, but apparently they're enabled in the background.

@caponate yup, I ended up doing the same