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

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    olivierlambertO
    Ping @julienxovates

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

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    @gcpeters4 said: @john.c This is a good idea as well. If the previous suggestion of trying to do a DNS round robin approach doesn't work, this may be my best option. Thanks for taking the time to provide your suggestion! By the way my suggestion is recommended best practice from Microsoft for their Active Directory software and/or technology. My suggestion will be more likely to work if your DNS servers and requests have issues with Round Robin configuration. Plus with my solution you can easily add more servers as domain controllers to the cluster, as required and use replication to keep them consistent and up to date.

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

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    florentF
    the last rewrite of the stream processing ( spring 2025 ) focused on stability and memory footprint, and , on a standard cpu, it tops at around 300MB/s per backup job. Your benchmarks are very interesting, and they confirm most of it. this limit was not really an issue since, in most case the xapi was limiting around 100MB/s per disk , but it will be more a more visible limit Note that master have some fixes on the memory usage (not related to backups) That's why we have started an internal workforce focused on performance, with all the teams from the kernel to the backups, including storage, network and xapi. If I can brag a little : [image: 1779106650898-afd7b59b-a4f0-4a92-88ee-2c7ba52d18bf-image.jpeg] i9 , nvme disk , backup to a nvme disk in passthrough, xoa and vm are on the same host, so it's quite far from real world data, but it shows where the limit is

  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    DustyArmstrongD
    @florent OK cool, thank you for the info.

  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    CyrilleC
    Kubernetes CSI Driver for XO new release v0.3.0 Stable CSI Volume Identity: This decouples Kubernetes volume identity from backend storage lifecycle events (e.g. VDI migration between Storage Repositories) Topology-Aware Volume Provisioning: Dynamic provisioning now supports topology-aware pool selection. ️ Migration required from v0.2.0 to v0.3.0 Full release note: https://github.com/vatesfr/xenorchestra-csi-driver/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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    Create a Ubuntu 18.04 cloud init template

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    @bcatubig [image: 1580232853539-776ddfa2-a97c-4ea6-adb5-2dd05943b421-image.png] I see this message on the console right after the VM is created. Could it be somehow helpful?
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    Spread the backup load across servers

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    For the moment I've had to create several backup jobs instead of one big backup it's e.g. servers01-06, 07-12, 13-18. Which isn't ideal as it's harder to manage, but is what it is!
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    XOA additional network interface

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    olivierlambertO
    So please open a support ticket, that would be easier to assist
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    Logs Not Revealing

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    Hard to say from just a screenshot. What version of XO are you running? How long did you wait for the logs to load? Did you try refreshing the page? FWIW, I've noticed that XO seems to take longer to load this page than it did previously. P.S. Technically, you aren't running XOA (the pre-built XO appliance).
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    too many VDI/VHD per VM, how to get rid of unused ones

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    its still there ie the host is still atached to that vdi im thinking this is the issue why my backups wont run anymore if not i will do it on the xen server cli, but it would be nice to know why this isnt working
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    XO on Raspberry Pi 3B+ ?

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    I've been spending some time on it for the last few nights, and my skills are improving little by little. I think Ubuntu desktop was the closest I got to functional, there is a custom image for the Rpi3b+ that I found and it was one of the attempts that got to trying to start the XO-server service and failed. I was never able to get the xo-server to start manually either and the log files didn't give me anything I understood. One of the versions that worked the least was CentOS 7 for RPi, node.js is not available for it in the normal repos. I have more experience with CentOS from a few years ago and more comfortable with it, may have to look into compiling all the dependencies from source to see if I can make it work. I think an RPi 4b with 2gb or 4gb of RAM might be a better choice, but I have the 3b+.
  • talbarorT

    Issue with vm 's that where suppose to be deleted

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    olivierlambertO
    Have you refresh your broswer tab? Have you tried to disconnect/reconnect the pool in Settings/servers?
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    XOA sign in page, default credentials not working

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    olivierlambertO
    Hey! Thanks for the feedback Keep us posted if you have any issues!
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    Error When adding host to XO

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    @olivierlambert Thank you. All back to normal now
  • talbarorT

    Having issue registering xo-cli

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    DanpD
    You need a space between the URL and the user name.
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    High Availability setup

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    olivierlambertO
    This guide shows an old UI of XO, but you can always set the HA for the VM in its Advanced Tab. HA at the pool level might be enabled using the command displayed in the blog post. So far enabling HA on the pool level isn't exposed in XO because HA is causing more issues than it solves in general. If you decide to enable it on the CLI, it means that you probably understand what you do. If you don't know where to find a SR UUID, using HA might expose you to VERY bad experience. BTW, you can find it in SR view, click on the SR you want to use as HA SR, you'll see the UUID just beneath the name. As someone said in this forum few weeks ago: Everybody wants HA but not everyone needs it
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    where is the Home Server option in XO

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    olivierlambertO
    Also please note that's not a guarantee to boot the VM on this host. In fact, there's no way to be 100% sure it will. It's just than now XCP-ng will do its best to honor this. But eg, if there's not enough RAM on the host, then it will boot on another host of the pool.
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    XO to manage KVM?

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    I think, solution you are looking for is direct disk access. It's possible. I use it for my file server VM (FreeNAS) with five 4TB wd red drives (zfs). Passthrough entire PCI storage card is better, but even cheap server motherboards have 6 sata channels (one for dom0 ssd, and five for file server storage). This is my example (and my UUIDs) mkdir /srv/direct-sata_sr xe sr-create name-label=”Direct SATA SR” name-description=”SATA links to passthrough direct to VMs” type=udev content-type=disk device-config:location=/srv/direct-sata_sr New UUID generated on sr creation ba9b124c-c5ac-2c0b-7b1f-014d9cezzzzz ln -s /dev/disk/by-id/<disk id> /srv/direct-sata_sr/<disk id> ln -s /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000BEVT-26A0RT0_WD-WXE1A10V7603 /srv/direct-sata_sr/ata-WDC_WD5000BEVT-26A0RT0_WD-WXE1A10V7603 xe sr-scan uuid=ba9b124c-c5ac-2c0b-7b1f-014d9cezzzzz xe vdi-list sr-uuid=ba9b124c-c5ac-2c0b-7b1f-014d9cezzzzz Good luck.
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    Xen Orchestra reporting high disk usage (thin provisioned VDI)

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    @olivierlambert I have assigned 1.9TiB to a VM and XOA is saying the VM is using 1.07TiB, but df -h on the VM is saying that I'm using 418GB. So according to XOA I should have about 800GiB left but according to my VM I should have 1.4TB left, there's a pretty big 600GB difference here.
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    Enable VGA Graphics in Xcp-ng Center for a particular VM.

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    LDAP extract user from specified field?

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    I actually like the current implementation. I am currently using this setup to allow an admin user to have 2 accounts managed by one authentication back-end. One account is a typical self-service user to consume resources according to ACL/Self-service rule sets The other account is used to manage Admin features like backups and XO settings (environment with multiple admins who also consume resources from a shared pool with other departments/teams) I use separate accounts so when admin users create VMs it can go to the appropriate self-service container. I hope any fixes to address the above concern doesn't completely remote this capability or at least adds another method of achieving this.
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    uninstall xen orchestra in ubuntu 18.04.

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    Monitor XOA Disk Space

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    easy as that Thanks for you help.
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    building from source - yarn fetch error

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    guys, it is solved, but thats something i will file again under technological harrassment. it was a DNS Problem. the dns-servers at my hosting provider woudnt resolve properly, only when I forced googles DNS servers onto it did it work. thanks for the push
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    Kubernetes cluster recipe?

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    olivierlambertO
    Indeed, it's using our cloudinit ready templates hosted on xen-orchestra.com, so you need a XOA.