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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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    DanpD
    s/rebooting/rebooted Apologies for the miswording on my end.
  • 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
  • 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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    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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    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.
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    Ah great news Thanks for the feedback!
  • XO Proxy Comminuty edition Config Error

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    @elvintmp75 @elvintmp75 said in XO Proxy Comminuty edition Config Error: I'm probably missing something obvious..any ideas? Yes ! You forgot to read the instructions properly. It is clearly stated: "This script is not supported or endorsed by Xen Orchestra. Any issue you may have, please report it first to this repository." This means that this script/ install method is NOT made or supported by Vates (The guys behind Xen Orchestra / XCP-ng ) There may be errors in scripts and installs which you should report to the creator and not to this forum !
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    @olivierlambert Thank you and your team again for your commitment to this fantastic FOSS tool and for allowing me to build it myself! I very much appreciate the personal touch of my issues being triaged by the CEO and Co-Founder. It's refreshing to see an executive officer stay in touch with their customer base.
  • Provision Config/Secrets to XenStore from XO

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    olivierlambertO
    Hi, Indeed, only root user in the guest can read it Any user that can see the XAPI object will be able to read it So I would say it's "reasonably safe", but it all depends on your global usage context and level of confidentiality you need.
  • XO User restore VM from Backup

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    olivierlambertO
    Hi! Short answer: no. Restore is only for a "superuser" (admin) not for "regular" users. In the long run: maybe So it's up to you (for now) to restore the VM.
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    @AlexTheBest great work and effort alex , and welcome to modern storage .
  • MTU change

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    Hey, @stevewest15 - I'm going to echo Olivier here. I stumbled across this posting (sorry for being a couple of months out) because I was looking for the right procedure to change my MTU to 9k - based on a recommendation from iX Systems (we have a TrueNAS Core X10 from iX). My two XCP-NG boxes have 10G NICs and the X10 has a dual 10G NIC LACP bond. I was seeing, frankly, disappointing numbers when I watched port statistics on the 10G switch; I never really got above ~2G even on the LACP bond while doing a backup from the pool to the pool's backup SR. After reading Olivier's response to you, I thought I'd iperf it without changing the MTU. Olivier and his team are a bunch of REALLY smart people, and I'm inclined to believe what they tell you... But I'm a strong believer in "trust but verify". Ce n'est pas, @olivierlambert? Anyway, this is what I got just with straight 1500 MTU using iperf3 between one of my XCP-NG hosts and the X10. As you can see, I didn't do any modifications such as paralleling or MSS settings. Just a raw test: [image: 1691080423925-c67a394b-c7b8-4345-b1de-93df8f010aa6-image.png] The 10.11.11.0/24 network is our non-routed SAN/NAS network. While pushing to 9k MTU (don't forget to look at MSS as well) might help these ~80% utilization numbers, the real issue in my mind is the gap between the ~2G I was seeing and the raw numbers above. This tells me that there's something else afoot here. A few thoughts: TrueNAS encryption. If the target is encrypting/decrypting data on write/read, you're going to see significantly lower numbers My initially disappointed observations were during backups. Again, there's a lot going on under the hood that could be affecting performance before it even gets to the wire (or glass, as in my case). Perhaps I need to look at what I can do to tune NFS itself Changing the MTU (and probably MSS) is absolutely a valid thing to do, but every device in the path needs to be adjusted as well. And 5 years from now, when you go to replace the switch, or a NIC, or the storage array... Are you going to remember? I've been in that situation... and I didn't. Hopefully you're smarter than me! iPerf is showing that there's probably 20% in overhead on my SAN, which is something worth looking at, but at this point it's not an outrageous number - particularly since I'm not even coming close to touching that number during normal ops. It's worth a Wireshark though.
  • Coalesce failed, skipping - corrupted

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    @olivierlambert so I went to restore this VM from backup, and noticed that the monthly backup is currently running on this VM as we speak. Will restoring from this newest backup fix my issue? Or does it restore the issue back into production?
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  • XOA source update

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    works. thanks!
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