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

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    @pkgw Planning an RPU as a whole is a nice idea in theory, but it's inherently designed to co-exist with normal pool management operations (you should still be able to migrate VMs between hosts B and C during it, or start new ones), we are not "pre-booking" memory and other resources for groups of VMs, otherwise it can quickly make the rest of the pool hard to manage while some VM migrations could still be far away. Regarding the narrower case - I'll note this down and see if we can improve things, thank you!
  • ACLs, Self-service, Cloud-init, Load balancing...

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    Is a centralized XOA server "managing" two remote Proxy-fronted XCP clusters supported with the SDN Controller Plugin? We are looking to deploy an architecture similar to this blog post from 2022: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xo-proxy-a-concrete-guide/
  • All XO backup features: full and incremental, replication, mirrors...

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    Thanks for checking. That's useful, even if it points away from where I was looking. Clocks within a second of each other means drift probably isn't your problem, and I'd guess the MST/UTC difference is just how dom0 displays it, though I'm not sure. What I keep coming back to is that your full backups fail while the delta jobs on the same hosts never do. That's the same split in https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues/9181, where full backups hit BodyTimeoutError on VMs with big disks or a lot of free space and the deltas are fine. If your failing VMs look like that, your dates and the MST/UTC detail would do more good on that issue than buried in here. MajorP93 created this issue in vatesfr/xen-orchestra open Full backup fails on large VMs / VMs with lots of free disk space #9181
  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    Hello I'm pulling stats for all VMs to understand CPU usage. We're a bit behind the curve in terms of XO versions, but these questions hopefully are still relevant. If using a granularity of days, the interval is set to 86400 (understandably) but the endTimestamp varies. Running this on June 9th @ ~1740 we get timestamps for both Mon Jun 8 01:00:00 AM BST 2026 and Tues Jun 9 01:00:00 AM BST 2026. Does this average across the day? Why is the timestamp 0100? Why would there be different timestamps between VMs (all are running) and does that mean that the figures are misaligned in the results? These are retrieved via curl and a bash script, a bit hacky, but for clarity the request is: ++ curl -X GET -s -H accept:application/json -b authenticationToken=[[REDACTED]] -o [[REDACTED]] 'https://[[REDACTED]]/rest/v0/vms/[[REDACTED]]/stats?granularity=days' Really keen to know if we can control the start and endtime, as well as provide a manual interval, as well as the aggregation strategy (min, max, average). Are any of these possible? Lastly, is cpuUsage the percentage as per the dashboard, but averaged over all CPUs? Thanks so much in advance. James
  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    The Kubernetes CSI driver for Xen Orchestra just hit v0.4.0, and we want it on more real clusters before it reaches a stable release candidate. If you run Kubernetes on XCP-ng VMs, this is a good time to give it a proper workout. What's new in v0.4.0: Local-storage support Automatic pool-discovery fallback Kubernetes metadata now lives in Xen Orchestra VDI tags instead of the deprecated other_config. That change also drops the old requirement for Xen Orchestra 6.4 or newer, so the driver runs on more deployments now. ️ Read this before you upgrade. v0.4.0 is a breaking change. The Kubernetes metadata moved from other_config to VDI tags, so you must migrate before upgrading from v0.3.0. Do not upgrade in place: follow the v0.3.0 to v0.4.0 migration guide in the release notes, then move to v0.4.0. What helps us most is hearing how it behaves on your own setup: what works, what breaks, which storage backend you use, and which flavour of Kubernetes you run (k3s, full k8s, or something else). Edge cases on real clusters are the ones we don't see in our own testing. Where to report: start right here in this thread. It keeps everything visible to the community and lets others on the same setup jump in. If something turns out to be a reproducible bug, we'll move it to a GitHub issue on the repo so the team can track it to a fix. Release notes and migration guide: https://github.com/vatesfr/xenorchestra-csi-driver/releases/tag/v0.4.0
  • Question about using HUB as a XO built from sources

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    Depends on what you expect from "manage", but once a template is deployed (or recipe applied), it's all regular VMs.
  • Issue staying logged into XO (source)

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    I think using a script for an initial test is OK, but if you want to really use it, it's better to follow our documentation and following the per-requisites by the book.
  • Pools don't appear under Settings > Servers on fresh build of XO

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    @Danp Hi everyone. That "n 18" did it for me. My Xen Orchestra would not hold the connection, with the same "http connection time out". Thanks a bunch Regards Marc
  • Centralize the Server List?

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    olivierlambertO
    Hi, You posted in the XO section, so question: why not using Xen Orchestra?
  • XOA does not refresh quickly status of NICs

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    @KPS This is an internal ticket. But I'm not against having a public issue as well
  • Show the bandwith of VM/ Host in differents units

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    It might be easier to configure this in the next XO UI Thanks for the feedback though
  • Ability to cloning/multiplay only one VHD.

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    In essence, you can write any script you like in your VM that would be executed, test whatever you want in the database, and if it's OK, write a special key in the XenStore. XO will detect it and consider the backup health check done and working
  • Help Diagnose: Backup error spawn /usr/bin/node EAGAIN

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    What kind of backups are these? Incremental (delta), full, etc..? I think that'll help determining the issue, I had something similar once specifically with an incremental and was able to fix it. May not be related though since that was a while ago and on stable release channel for XOA.
  • VMware import stuck at "Importing..."

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    Hmmmmm I need to look back through some of my old posts and notes but I had a similar issue with a VM with large number of disks. The disks themselves being big wasn't the issue, it was just having a huge number of them that eventually cased a problem. Ended up migrating by moving a single VHD and rebuilding things (the specific system didn't really "need" all the VHDs so it was an easy fix for me, wouldn't be the case here haha). If you are trying to reduce the number of hosts though, why would migrating the VCSA help? If you're powering off a host then wouldn't you not need the VCSA to be running anyway? Or do you have more than 1 ESXi instance? Might be easiest to just migrate it to another ESXi host if that's the goal, since you won't need the VCSA once you fully move to XCP-ng (assuming you are doing so).
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    You can create a valid VHD file with the command uuidgen
  • XO6/XOLite Power state dropdown suggestion

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    @clemencebx Awesome, thanks!
  • How to install Tools for Windows 2019 VM?

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    @olivierlambert Thank you so much. Got it.
  • The host toolstack is still initialising. Please wait. - unable to do anything.

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    @Danp Ya, I normally restart the master first, but it was late and I was just trying to get them patched and restarted. I restarted 03 and everything came back up. Thanks!
  • Convert ESXI's VMDK file to VHD

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    olivierlambertO
    If you want to put VHD file in an existing NFS SR, you need to indeed have an UUID type. Note that the SR file structure should NOT have any subfolder into it. To generate an UUID, you can use uuidgen command.
  • transport-email unable to send to GMail recipient

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    @CJ Please test the branch email-local-hostname which make the local hostname configurable and keep me posted.
  • Unable to reconnect XCP server after XOA update

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    Sounds like a rights issue.
  • restoring

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    olivierlambertO
    Don't forget to always stay up to date to the latest commit as possible, because there's no support on older code for the version on Github
  • Converting XOA Community Edition into the fully supported Xen Orchestra

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    @Gheppy thank you for the response. I will do that.
  • Enabling and using NBD backups

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    @MrNaz I recommend reading the XO blog; updates are published monthly. NBD was introduced in the 5.76 release and the ability to enable in the Xen Orchestra UI was introduced in 5.79 https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-76/ https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-79/ Also enhancements were released in 5.81 https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-81/
  • XO CR: Vlan does not follow for all Vif

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    Old thread i know but i will say that there is an issue with using VLAN.id 1 I am permitting all vlans end to end on my infrastructure and the only vlan that doesnt work is 1. If i move the VM to another vlan then everything works. I suppose the solution is to not use vlan.id 1 but thats terrible. all vlans are permissiable.