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

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    gskgerG
    I am running NVIDIA P40s on a DELL R720/R730 and a NVIDIA A2000 12GB on a DELL Optiplex 9010 in my playlab. Getting the GPUs to be accessible for VMs was quite easy: shutdown the XCP-ng host, install the GPUs, start the host again, activate the GPU in the advanced settings of the host in the PCI Devices section (“Passthrough enabled”). The host will restart at this point after displaying a warning. That's it – the GPU can now be assigned to a VM in the VMs advanced settings. I do use the GPUs for AI workloads under Debian though, so your use case might vary.

  • ACLs, Self-service, Cloud-init, Load balancing...

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    @bleader Hopefully the palm print on my forehead isn't visible from where you are sitting. Of course the interface needs an IP address. In my defense, normally for something like this, I wouldn't put it on the bonded interface with all the trunked VLAN's for guest traffic (we don't give that one an IP) and it would go on the other bonded interface that isn't trunked and does get an IP, but these are test hosts and I didn't set up the other bond, so it is pulling double duty. I was able to set the IP's and get SDN working. Thanks!

  • All XO backup features: full and incremental, replication, mirrors...

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    @florent Thanks. I'm still going to wait until next week, my schedule just doesn't give me the time right now. But nice to know that when I do update, it will be fixed and my laziness prevented a problem for me I think I'll get my pool updated today, only been waiting a week at this point.

  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    @Pilow tags can work and the path to them is much more succinct. Thanks!

  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    CyrilleC
    Kubernetes CCM for Xen Orchestra v1.0.0-rc.1 We’re shipping v1.0.0-rc.1, our first release candidate on the road to a stable 1.0.0! This RC is feature-complete and ready for real-world use. Please try it out and share any feedback—bugs, regressions, or usability notes—so we can polish the final release. Thank you for testing and helping us! https://github.com/vatesfr/xenorchestra-cloud-controller-manager/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc.1 Golang SDK for Xen Orchestra v1.11.0 SDK v2: VM and Task services now match the latest REST API. Host service has been added for host data retrieval. Integration tests have also been strengthened to boost reliability. The v2 SDK is gradually becoming our main library for all the other DevOps tools (Kubernetes drivers, Terraform provider…). There are BREAKING CAHNGES in the v2 SDK, so please read the release notes carefully. Remember that the v2 SDK is a beta version and can be subject to significant changes. The current semantic versioning we use is mostly for the v1 SDK. When the v2 SDK becomes stable, the major version number will increase. https://github.com/vatesfr/xenorchestra-go-sdk/releases/tag/v1.11.0
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  • Z

    Backup a VM with all its snapshots?

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    @Zevgeny For a few snapshots it's fine - the issue comes when you have large numbers. Most of my first-hand experience with this specific issue comes from Hyper-V but the logic applies here. This is from VMware but the concept is the same and has some good reading on snapshots in general. Running a virtual machine on a snapshot for extended periods of time can cause instability and data loss. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1015180 The underlying issue stems from the nature of snapshots. With none you have a single VHD containing all of the data for the VM, once you take a snapshot a new delta VHD is created with all new data written going forward from the time of the snapshot. So, in order to have a complete VM you have the original VHD + the delta VHD. This is fine in smaller numbers, but once you start having 10, 15, 20+ snapshots, every one of those represents an additional VHD in the chain. This results in performance degradation because you're reading from multiple potential files as only new data is written to the deltas. This is actually from XO's blog: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-coalesce-detection-in-xen-orchestra/
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    Xen Orchestra Community Edition - Registration

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    Happy to do baby steps If / when you guys add some kind of "register" option to get a count on things I'd add my instance(s), as long as it doesn't break the existing install / upgrade scripts at least! Generally I have no issues with just clicking it away since I'm the only one that sees it. If it were a viable option sometime in the future, those would be my ideal "features". I've really enjoyed using XO coming from ESXi / vCenter at work and formerly running my home lab. Your vision of support is similar to Nutanix's which is partially why we went their route for our server overhaul and I think it's excellent. I'm hoping by the time we're due for a refresh the hyper-converged offering is fleshed out and production ready. Though I would miss my integrated firmware upgrades.
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    Backup with USB passthru workaround?

    feature in backlog
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    @olivierlambert Yes this is really great. I have a windows box where I experiment with bluetooth a bit and having backup on this machine at least once a week or so feels very good I think I think it also makes sense that a machine that needs to be taken down in order to make backup also probably will need another backup schedule.
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    Best way to schedule backups hourly, daily, weekly, monthly without overlap?

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    @ronivay very good point thank you! I guess hourly is excessive when snapshots are available. Will just schedule hourly snapshots instead as the main point is to be able to revert in the event of a breaking change.
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    Strange backup error. false !== true

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    @julien-f Restore showed that there were backups even when it said it failed.... I did not test one, sorry. I deleted the snapshots and old backup data which forced a full backup to S3 and XO was happy. A delta backup after that was also successful.
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    Host Patch Installation Failure | "global name 'commmand' is not defined"

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    @olivierlambert Aaah, thanks Olivier. Still learning. Great product by the way. Hoping I can get comfortable with it enough to make a recommendation to my company.
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    At a loss on network config chicken/egg

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    @MilitaryNerd Have you restarted the host since removing this bond? It's reporting that bond0 is still attached to an OVS bridge, so it may need a reboot. You can also ensure the bond is really gone by running xe bond-list, it should return nothing. You could also still have the bond PIF existing or other networks using the old bond, check that you don't have any PIFs with device ( RO): bond0 listed when running xe pif-list
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    unhealthy VDI chain

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    Good news then
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    New and exciting backup errors

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    @andrewreid Not that this helps with your error, but my nightly S3 delta backups to Wasabi have been working just fine. I'm using XO source and keep mostly up to date with master. S3 and NFS are different backup formats so NFS working does not mean S3 will work. Sometimes Wasabi causes failures but not recently and not that last more than a few VMs in one night. The next backup run (manual restart or next nightly) seems to work correctly. I force a full backup every 3 months just to make sure I have a good checkpoint in case undetected corruption creeps into the delta data. Plus I have replication and other backups. I did have a problem once (not exactly yours) with a VM and just deleted the S3 backup data which forced a full backup again. Sucks because you don't have the weeks of deltas anymore. Error #3 (date-time) is strange. May be a backblaze issue. You could create a new S3 remote to backblaze (new bucket or directory) and test one failing VM backup to the new remote and see if it works (and works again for delta). You could set the retention low to test merge too. I have a setup like this with a local MinIO server for S3 testing and local backups.
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    Backups not starting after failed NFS mount

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    olivierlambertO
    haha that's exactly the purpose of the remote test button No grand mastery, just experience
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    Moving backups to another remote?

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    @olivierlambert I want to move them on NFS in order to be able to backup later from NFS to S3 in more granular way Generally, we are talking about XO - NFS. S3 would be out of XO.
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    Register instance of XO Running on Hyper-V

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    @someone2b Just install this work-around xenstore-read with the following commands and hopefully it will work. sudo -s cd /usr/local/bin curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/julien-f/a6f98de3bd5a775f3f04b2fa14a9a102/raw/xenstore-read chmod +x xenstore-read
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    Second Pool Host Network 0 doesn't work for VMs

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    XOA not reachable after reboot

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    olivierlambertO
    Hi, This is documented. https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/xoa.html#first-console-connection
  • K

    XCP-ng logs in XOA - where to find

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    Just if somebody else is searching for the same thing, although it is not directly related to XOA: If you want to get these alerts by mail and you are not using XCP-ng-Center, you can activate them with: xe pool-param-set uuid=pool-uuid other-config:mail-destination=mail@example.com xe pool-param-set uuid=pool-uuid other-config:ssmtp-mailhub=mailserverip:port KPS
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    Create VM Error SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_1200, No such Tapdisk.

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    @geoffbland No problem. It's the first time I see this error with tapdisk (and it's it's even more surprising to have it on this type of SR...). It had all been working fine and I had not changed anything on the share - it just stopped working In this case, maybe there was a problem with the XAPI, a lock on the device or something else. Not easy to find the cause without remote access. Don't hesitate to ping us if this problem comes back.
  • mauzillaM

    Migrating large disk - any risks?

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    olivierlambertO
    It's more a less that. In short, the new disk is created on both sides, and blocks mirrored on both sides. First, the read only "parent" VDI with frozen blocks is copied, when it's done, the VM is briefly paused, the memory migrated to the destination and then unpaused on destination. Consequently, only the blocks written during 11 hours will use space for new blocks on the source SR (and destination, since it's mirrored).
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    All imports fail with error

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    @sbz71 The stable channel should not have the issue, not sure when we'll release a fix for latest. If you have an XO subscription, you can open a support ticket and a support tunnel and we'll be able to patch your install My bad, I misunderstood the question
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    Broken backup logs

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    @julien-f Thanks. I'll post an update if I hit the problem again.
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    Generic Error When Running S3 Backups to Minio on Latest XO Build

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    @creoleMalady This does not help you, but my setup works with MinIO S3 (current version minio_20220607003341.0.0_amd64.deb) and current XO commit a5e9f. I'm running XO commit 379e4 (June 2nd) and it has been working correctly with Wasabi. I updated XO to commit a5e9f (current master) on a second server and backup still works for me to MinIO.... Delta Backup as a full and as a delta with and without merge.