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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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    florentF
    @Pilow I will take a look in deep later, but the key/delta and disk usage is set during backup, even if they are merged during LTR retention

  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    olivierlambertO
    But giving your feedback on how you solved it might help many people in the future Thanks!

  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    @probain Your role seems to neither install or pin node js itself so it does not fully follow the official steps from Xen Orchestra docs. Xen Orchestra docs state to use LTS node js - installing it is something that the the ronivay XO script does. Due to this part missing in your role it can not be executed on a freshly provisioned VM, something that is not really best practice. A role that was made for the purpose of deploying a software should also install / manage it's dependencies. Other than that, thanks for sharing your role. Every contribution towards this community is great IMO.
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    CPU Stats bottoming out to Zero every five minutes

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    @DKirk That all makes sense, thanks for clarifying. Looks like there are further comments below that seem to pinpoint where the issue may lay. The key point you make is only "after the last updates" is when this started happening!
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    VGA on Xen Orchestra

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    Olivier, I can say it's worse without the VGA being selected to 16Mb. That option is pretty much a must for any desktop virtualization. The novelty for me is people get far above 1080...
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    Feedback XO v6

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    @lsouai-vates Today I noticed that there is the same in xo5 (commit 25192) Jobs with disabled jobs but scheduled in a sequence job are shown with Not backed up VMs [image: 1747997034588-9d25866e-a8b8-4bd6-85ac-bcb5973fd6fc-image.png] By the BCK_Running tag, it is backed up [image: 1747997147334-f5471bb0-7600-4d6e-ad81-da9c13dfa6bd-image.png]
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    Display Slowness/Lag

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    @ph7 I'm using local software mirror with mdadm. Its both boot and vm storage.
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    Connection failed - Unknown error

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    @olivierlambert Thank you for your response. I have followed most of the documentation on setting up HA, and made sure that I have 3 hosts. All are Dell 7090 64GB RAM with 2 dedicated HA NICS. XCP-ng 8.3 is patched, XO is up to date, Xen tools 9.4.0 on all Windows VMs, and using the Xen tools ISO that can be mounted. eth0 1Gbs management network eth1 10Gbs iSCSI network DAC eth2 10Gbs VLAN Trunk, including backup network eth3 1Gbs HA eth4 1Gbs HA Overall, XCP-ng and XO are doing an excellent job. I feel like I am on an Easter egg hunt when pouring through documentation, but that is mostly my problem, because I see that you have put a lot of effort into organizing and updating it. My "use case" is replacing the VMware ESXi/vSphere 2-node cluster with XCP-ng and XO at the small high school (non-profit) where I volunteer as the IT guy. I feel that I am at the point where I trust XCP-ng and XO enough to make the switch during the summer break. Sorry to run on. The yellow triangles behind the non-master hostnames are just a small nuisance. I do notice that the hosts are hard to shutdown. Sending a shutdown command from either XO or from the host console causes a host to reboot, but not shutdown, even after having previously entered maintenance mode. I feel that this is not a big issue, just another small nuisance. The XO cluster is maintaining the integrity of the guest VMs. I will be reading all of the documentation I can, and upgrading to 8.4 when it is available. Thank you for supporting your awesome hypervisor.
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    RAID Status on the Advanced tab of the host

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    The plugin was initially created to check RAID created during install, not custom RAIDs created manually. But that could be an improvement to the plugin @stormi I leave you the honor to add this somewhere
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    Cannot get to XO Lite portal

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    @Virtual said in Cannot get to XO Lite portal: @olivierlambert So my host IP is 192.168.1.40 and the Xen orchestra IP is 192.168.1.45 To clarify, I was referring to XO 6 Lite. Going to https://192.168.1.40 brings up the page with XoA quick deploy, cli documentation, etc. It doesn’t navigate to XO 6 lite Going to https://192.168.1.45/v6 still gives me the error mentioned in the original post Indeed, as said, there's no such thing as "XO Lite 6". XO Lite is simply "XO Lite" (we'll have a v1 at some point, v6 is like far far in the future ) So yes, https://192.168.1.40 should display XO Lite if you use XCP-ng 8.3 (you can install it manually for 8.2 but it's not bundled by default) And https://192.168.1.45/v6 should display XO 6, only if you built it correctly to get XO 6 components built.
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    cant create a private cross pool network

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    Sorry for the delay, I'm a bit swamped. That does not ring a bell to me right now. What is you setup like? How many pools, how many host per pool, is there bond on some of them? Then, more to debug what was actually created as you stated there network does exist but there is no traffic: On your hosts: xe network-list to get the uuid of one of these private networks you created xe network-param-list uuid=<netwok-uuid> should tell you in which bridge they are ovs-vsctl show shows all bridges and their ports, in there you should be seeing the bridge you found in previous step. This bridge should have: a port with type vxlan and options in which you have a remote_ip to the network center the VIFs for the VMs On your VM: is that network assigned to the VMs? do the VM have new devices created in ip link or similar when you attached the network? is there any error in VMs dmesg on device creation? We'll see from there if we can get an idea of what is happening.
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    Issue Importing Dell PPDM OVA into XOA

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    Edit to my previous post: the script is checking for working DNS, so i cannot pre-setup network. If you want the fixed applicance with the drivers installed, ping me ! To setup the network, you just need to login (root/changeme, yeah the password is... bleh), and launch the script /usr/local/brs/puppet/scripts/install.sh -lui
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    No Alma logo in XO?

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    Hi, I'm pretty sure this is planned to be addressed in XO6. Dan
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    Unable to add host to pool (db mismatch)

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    Could you please provide the output of (for the master and the candidate host): xe host-list params=software-version It does seem odd....
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    XOA web deploy stuck at "Deploying XOA..." No error

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    @RawbDeeni Thank you! I had the same problem using 8.2 lts. I ended up formatting and using 8.3, and I didn't have any issues after that. I'm glad I found a better alternative to use this hypervision from a vmware end user for over 10 years until Broadcom killed it.
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    Multiple AD sources to Xen Orchestra

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    @tuckertt Hello ! We are making some investigations on authentication, users, ACLs etc... topics for the Xen Orchestra 6 version to come. Could you please formalize your need so I can add it to my user suggestions list? Try to make specs as most generic (for all users) as possible, and don't hesitate to add some concrete examples. Have a good day!
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    Host disconnected midway during backup, now unable to start/restart/cancel

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    @jaayb said in Host disconnected midway during backup, now unable to start/restart/cancel: @madrianr had similar issues tried xe vdi-foget uuid and rescanned after that but cannot find the vdi. Any ideas? never mind was able to recover...
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    Console keyboard problems using Firefox

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    For anyone who comes across this, you can just add an exception for your management page and shift will work on the console. Settings > Privacy & Security > Enhanced Tracking Protection > Manage Exceptions > Add the site url e.g. https://xo.fqdn.com.
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    Migrating a Windows VM from Proxmox to XCP-NG

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    Hi, You really need to give more details.
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    Help moving VMs from XenServer 6.0.2 to XCP-ng 8.3

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    Excellent news! Keep us posted
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    error @vates/generator-toolbox@1.0.1: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=20.18". Got "18.20.3"

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    @jasonnix Update to nodejs 22.x. It should be good for a while. Nodejs 24 will be out soon but not required yet.
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    Cannot Import VMDK Through Import > Disk (migrating from ESXi, all methods not working)

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    we are reworking the import code , along the new backup code ( https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/10664/our-future-backup-code-test-it ) to unify the differetn disk transformation path For now: V2V handles flat, cowd, sesparse, stream optimized vmdk in the format "metadata.vmdk and a data file ) and ova ( for VSAN) disk import support monolithic vmdk ( cowd, sesparse, streamoptimized ) ova improt support only stream ova with streamoptimzed vmdk inside
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    XO update fails

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    @AtaxyaNetwork said in XO update fails: @edisoninfo Hi, What's xo-install.sh ? It's a third party script ? Very likely indeed Those scripts really needs to make sure to provide the URL of the repo to report issues in a very visible way.