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  • VMs, hosts, pools, networks and all other usual management tasks.

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    In case anyone wonders how this played out. At the end of the day, I shutdown the host with the running workloads on it, kept it at BIOS boot so the 8.3 installer would upgrade it cleanly, and then booted it back up. For reasons related to my particular setup, the down time was more than 60 minutes. But that's not related to XCP-ng. The XCP-ng installer was maybe 10 of that. 20 of that was 3 reboots on a server that takes ages to boot. One thing that is a bit difficult is that the 8.3 installer doesn't notice ZFS volumes or help with ZFS. So after the upgrade, I have to follow a modified set of these instructions (modified because the package names have changed over time) to install ZFS and its components into the system. So the sequence is: Shutdown Install via ISO Reboot to single user mode Run yum update to pull in all the updates Run the ZFS commands to install ZFS on the host Reboot again Run normally Of course, I ended up rebooting more than just those 2 times, because I forgot that I would need to install ZFS (even though I did it on 2 different hosts already ) So now the pool is fully upgraded, everybody is happy. I'm now working on creating shared storage across the nodes. It's amateur hour over here. I appreciate all the help.
  • ACLs, Self-service, Cloud-init, Load balancing...

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    olivierlambertO
    October release fixed it
  • All XO backup features: full and incremental, replication, mirrors...

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    @florent yes I can try with XO from source to latest let me restore the VM and launch a DR with XO from source and i'll report back
  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    @MathieuRA Thank you, perfect Br,
  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    CyrilleC
    Terraform provider release v0.37.0 Enables the secure boot parameter for the VM resource Terraform provider release: https://github.com/vatesfr/terraform-provider-xenorchestra/releases/tag/v0.37.0
  • VM Hangs at 86% when starting

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    @jp13232 That wasn't what I asked. You mentioned Xenserver, so I wanted to know what version.
  • Backup NG

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    @darkbeldin Thanks it was his channel & what great info he provides! It was a 2018 "VM Backups, Disaster Recovery and Continuous Replication with Xen Orchestra Backup NG" Thanks very much Darkbeldin
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    @olivierlambert Sounds good, thank you!
  • Some VMs are shutting down autmatically

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    What does the memory min/max settings look like in the advanced tab of those VM's? You could try to set the dynamic min/max to same values. Could very well be that your guest OS doesn't handle it properly when host is trying to dynamically adjust the available VM memory. Although this shouldn't happen (afaik) if there's plenty of memory available on the host, but worth a try at least.
  • Stats tab throwing error in logs

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    olivierlambertO
    Hi, The Docker container isn't coming from us, so there's no way to know where is the problem. Please contact the 3rd party provider for this Docker repo.
  • Accidental Shutdown Protection Does Not Seem to Work

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    Yes, totally makes sense. Thanks! Consequently, best to accomplish the intended behavior from within the Windows VMs.
  • VDI Won't Coalesce (shows orphaned but isn't)

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    planedropP
    So another odd thing I'm seeing with this VDI, it's showing the size incorrectly. It shows 180GB of 180GB used up (on thin provisioned SR, both the old and new are), however the VM is only using 140GB of that 180GB. Something definitely went wrong with this VDI during transfer, just not sure what. I will say that I increased the VDI size again and now it displays more accurately, showing 180GB of 185GB used (both in XOA and with vhd-util). Almost behaving as if this was at one point on a thick provisioned SR or something. Just to avoid issues I'm maybe tempted to create a fresh VHD, copy data to that, then delete this one.
  • S3 Immutable and Delta Backups (how does this work)

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    planedropP
    @olivierlambert OK perfect, thank you! I've got a S3 Delta test going, will come back and post my results for others to reference once my testing is done.
  • xoa does not show all vms

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    @ronivay that was it
  • GPU perf graph

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    @olivierlambert thanks for info I can wait for XO 6 version
  • vm.migrate operation failed SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_79

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    It's not only this code. But in general, a good way to manage that is: "every message in CAPS is coming from the lower layer" (ie not XO).
  • Restoring a downed host ISNT easy

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    @xcprocks said in Restoring a downed host ISNT easy: So, we had a host go down (OS drive failure). No big deal right? According to instructions, just reinstall XCP on a new drive, jump over into XOA and do a metadata restore. Well, not quite. First during installation, you really really must not select any of the disks to create an SR as you could potentially wipe out an SR. Second, you have to do the sr-probe and sr-introduce and pbd-create and pbd-plug to get the SRs back. Third, you then have to use XOA to restore the metadata which according to the directions is pretty simple looking. According to: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/metadata_backup.html#performing-a-restore "To restore one, simply click the blue restore arrow, choose a backup date to restore, and click OK:" But this isn't quite true. When we did it, the restore threw an error: "message": "no such object d7b6f090-cd68-9dec-2e00-803fc90c3593", "name": "XoError", Panic mode sets in... It can't find the metadata? We try an earlier backup. Same error. We check the backup NFS share--no its there alright. After a couple of hours scouring the internet and not finding anything, it dawns on us... The object XOA is looking for is the OLD server not a backup directory. It is looking for the server that died and no longer exists. The problem is, when you install the new server, it gets a new ID. But the restore program is looking for the ID of the dead server. But how do you tell XOA, to copy the metadata over to the new server? It assumes that you want to restore it over an existing server. It does not provide a drop down list to pick where to deploy it. In an act of desperation, we copied the backup directory to a new location and named it with the ID number of the newly recreated server. Now XOA could restore the metadata and we were able to recover the VMs in the SRs without issue. This long story is really just a way to highlight the need for better host backup in three ways: A) The first idea would be to create better instructions. It ain't nowhere as easy as the documentation says it is and it's easy to mess up the first step so bad that you can wipe out the contents of an SR. The documentation should spell this out. B) The second idea is to add to the metadata backup something that reads the states of SR to PBD mappings and provides/saves a script to restore them. This would ease a lot of the difficulty in the actual restoring of a failed OS after a new OS can be installed. C) The third idea is provide a dropdown during the restoration of the metadata that allows the user to target a particular machine for the restore operation instead of blindly assuming you want to restore it over a machine that is dead and gone. I hope this helps out the next person trying to bring a host back from the dead, and I hope it also helps make XOA a better product. Thanks for a good description of the restore process. I was wary of the metadata-backup option. It sounds simple and good to have, but as you said it is in no way a comprehensive restore of a pool. I'd like to add my own oppinion here. A full pool restore, including network, re-attaching SRs and everything else that is needed to quickly get back up and running. Also a restore pool backup should be available on the boot media. It could look for a NFS/CIFS mount or a USB disk with the backup files on. This would avoid things like issues with bonded networks not working.
  • Xen Orchestra Backups

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    @danp Okay that's great. I was just making sure. Thanks for your reply. Jack
  • SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_109

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    We did recently have a failed drive that finished rebuilding a few days ago.
  • Issue creating Ubuntu 18.04 desktop VM

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    @olivierlambert i'm using a ova import with UEFI comming from virtualbox, folowed all previous option and ddocumentation and still can't get my VM to boot. It's stuck with black screen and no network or whatever informations. Using this packer template to build the VM : { "variables": { "vm_name": "mjolmir-base", "cpu": "2", "ram_size": "2048", "disk_size": "5000", "iso_url": "ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso", "iso_checksum_type": "sha1", "iso_checksum": "c5dc820b3b46ccdd94bb1568715852ea3bf772a4", "username" : "vagrant", "password" : "vagrant" }, "builders": [ { "vm_name":"{{user `vm_name`}}", "type": "virtualbox-iso", "format": "ova", "output_directory": "./data", "boot_wait": "5s", "disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}", "headless": true, "guest_additions_mode":"disable", "http_directory": "./http/", "iso_url": "{{user `iso_url`}}", "iso_checksum": "{{user `iso_checksum`}}", "communicator":"ssh", "ssh_username": "{{user `username`}}", "ssh_password": "{{user `password`}}", "ssh_timeout": "4h", "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant' | sudo -S -E shutdown -P now", "boot_command": [ "e<down><down><down><down><down><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", "linux /install/vmlinuz<wait>", " auto<wait>", " console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>", " console-setup/layoutcode=us<wait>", " console-setup/modelcode=pc105<wait>", " root=/dev/sda", " debconf/frontend=noninteractive<wait>", " debian-installer=fr_FR<wait>", " vga=normal fb=false<wait>", " kbd-chooser/method=fr<wait>", " keyboard-configuration/layout=FR<wait>", " keyboard-configuration/variant=FR<wait>", " locale=fr_FR<wait>", " netcfg/get_domain=localdomain<wait>", " netcfg/get_hostname=mjolmir<wait>", " grub-installer/bootdev=/dev/sda<wait>", " noapic<wait>", " preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/http/18.04/preseed-cloud-init.cfg", " -- <wait><enter>", " initrd /install/initrd.gz<wait>", "<f10>" ], "guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64", "firmware":"efi", "iso_interface": "sata", "vboxmanage": [ [ "modifyvm","{{.Name}}","--memory","{{user `ram_size`}}" ], [ "modifyvm","{{.Name}}","--cpus","{{user `cpu`}}" ], [ "modifyvm","{{.Name}}","--firmware","EFI" ] ] }], "provisioners": [{ "type": "shell", "execute_command": "echo 'vagrant' | sudo -S -E sh {{.Path}}", "scripts": [ "./script/update.sh", "./script/cloud-init.sh", "./script/cleanup.sh" ] }], "post-processors": [ { "keep_input_artifact": true, "output": "../../{{.Provider}}/mjolmir.box", "type": "vagrant" } ] } with provisioning script : #!/bin/sh #Disable conflict service systemctl stop apt-daily.service systemctl kill --kill-who=all apt-daily.service wait until `apt-get updated` has been killed while ! (systemctl list-units --all apt-daily.service | egrep -q '(dead|failed)') do sleep 1; done #Disable service at startup systemctl mask apt-daily.service apt-daily-upgrade.service systemctl disable apt-daily.service apt-daily-upgrade.service systemctl disable apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer # install cloud-init apt-get update && apt-get upgrade apt-get install linux-image-generic xserver-xorg apt-get remove linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04 apt-get install --install-recommends -y cloud-init xe-guest-utilities cloud-initramfs-growroot xserver-xorg-video-all #hostname will be managed by cloud-init, but the current value will not be removed HOSTNAME=`hostname` sed -i "/${HOSTNAME}/d" /etc/hosts sed -i s/enp0s3/eth0/g /etc/network/interfaces sed -i "s/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet\"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet vga=normal fb=false dsmode\=nocloud\\;s\=\/ratatosk\"/g" /etc/default/grub #sed -i "s/Before\=sysinit\.target/After\=sysinit\.target/g" /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init.service #sed -i "s/\[Service\]/\[Service\]\r\nAfter\=\cloud-init.service/g" /lib/systemd/system/xe-daemon.service #sed -i "s/\[Service\]/\[Service\]\r\nExecStartPre\=\/bin\/sleep 30/g" /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init.service #sed -i "s/\[Service\]/\[Service\]\r\nExecStartPre\=\/bin\/sleep 30/g" /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init-local.service sed -i "s/datasource_list: \[ NoCloud, ConfigDrive, OpenNebula, DigitalOcean, Azure, AltCloud, OVF, MAAS, GCE, OpenStack, CloudSigma, SmartOS, Bigstep, Scaleway, AliYun, Ec2, CloudStack, Exoscale, RbxCloud, UpCloud, None \]//g" /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg cp /tmp/cloud.cfg /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg && rm /tmp/cloud.cfg cat <<EOF >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg datasource_list: [ NoCloud, None ] datasource: NoCloud: seedfrom: /ratatosk/ EOF update-grub mkdir /ratatosk echo "/dev/xvdb /ratatosk vfat defaults 0 2" >> /etc/fstab DI_LOG=stderr /usr/lib/cloud-init/ds-identify --force dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive cloud-init stuck on : [image: 1629388720596-034b3235-383a-4aec-8a72-52bc9fb8c9ea-image.png] Any suggestion or whatever i'm missing ? Ubuntu 16.04 OVA created the same way can be imported and booted flawlessly.
  • Need help getting backups configured

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    olivierlambertO
    On a thin volume, it will only use the "real" space in the VM, so if you are using 40 or 50GiB, yes it will fit on the 78GiB storage
  • Can a VM be replicated to different locations?

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    @olivierlambert thank you Olivier!
  • Netdata collectors from XCP repo

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  • XCP-Ng Secure Boot

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    Both secure boot support and the fix for this KB installation are now available for testing: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/41541
  • Sources upgrade - can't restore backups ('invalid parameters')

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    FYI, you can always ask for another XOA trial when you need it