• XOSTOR hyperconvergence preview

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    @ronan-a we need to have CBT to use 3rd party backup & replication solution such as Veeam. On the other hand, XOSTOR with VHD disk might be ok using Xen Orchestra backup & replication features but it needs more testing on our end to make sure it works good enough. One big question is about the snapshot chain. Coming from VMware world where keeping snapshots may impact I/O performances, we're not very comfortable with it. Also, we need to find solution for low-RPO replication. On our VMware infrastructure we use Zerto DR for this but XOA being more like Veeam using snapshots, low-RPO will be tough to achieve (unless making snapshots doesn't affect performances at all ?).
  • xcp-ng server crashed/rebooted due to issues with drbd/linstor?

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    poddingueP
    That it's stayed quiet since you throttled Velero is a good sign, and it lines up with the concurrency theory rather than anything about the specific volumes. Bumping dom0 RAM makes sense too, since linstor-satellite spiking to roughly 8,700 log lines around the panic suggests dom0 was under real pressure right then. If it does come back, a xen-bugtool --yestoall bundle from the host that panicked, plus the Loki window you already have, would give @Team-Storage something concrete to line up against the DRBD side. I'm not sure whether the real fix sits in Velero's pacing or in how LINSTOR handles concurrent create/delete, but the reproduction you've narrowed down is genuinely useful. Fingers crossed it stays boring from here.
  • Not able to create new vdi with linstor at the moment

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    OK so that resource was a pain and did not want to give up, so I restarted the host. Migration is running good now.
  • Unable to create XOSTOR volume

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    poddingueP
    Thanks for coming back to close it out. That's useful to know. So I was plenty wrong, as it was the XOSTOR licensing backend rather than the repo side I guessed at; those -32000 errors really don't give much away. For anyone landing here later: sounds like -32000 on XOSTOR creation can come from either end, a licensing/entitlement issue that support sorts, or a host not reaching the package repo, so both are worth checking. @alcoralcor, did support get yours sorted too, or is yours still the repodata / repo-reachability one? Glad you're unblocked either way.
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    Yes, there's a weird issue when using both XOSTOR and HA, probably due to the HA mechanism itself. @Team-Storage is on it
  • Ran into a new auth issue with xostor?

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    @Mathieu-L linstor n l was included in my original post. All nodes were updated to May 2026 Security and Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS, all nodes were restarted. May 2026 Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS was released, and a couple days later I installed on all hosts. No host restarted. When xen04 was restarted, that is when this issue happened. I had used systemctl restart linstor-controller here (https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/105309) to restart the controller.
  • XOSTOR appears to be broken on the new XCP-NG May 2026 update

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    @dthenot said: @ccooke Hello, You should be able to make the XOSTOR SR work again if you update sm and sm-fairlock on the other hosts. yum update sm sm-fairlock Then you should be able to re-plug the SR on the master and proceed with the RPU. Hello, Had the same problem, the command resolved the issue. It needs to be run on every host. Everything is working fine again. However, I had to complete the pool update manually.
  • Comparison with Ceph

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    olivierlambertO
    Different use cases: Ceph is better with more hosts (at least 6 or 7 minimum) while XOSTOR is better between 3 to 7/8. We might have better Ceph support in the future for large clusters.
  • Minimums for XOstor disk configuration?

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    And to really round this out, the MTBF for any of these is in the millions of hours (1.2-3M), that's a use time of 136.968 - 342.46 years respectively. Basically, if a drive dies, just replace it no matter what, but in the end the reliability of these drives is meant to outlast all of us. Unless you actually need some specific function provided in some form-factor or model, don't bother.
  • Reset XOSTOR trial

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    @tmnguyen You can open a support ticket and request that we reactivate your XOSTOR trial licenses to match your existing XOA trial.
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    @ronan-a Thanks
  • SR.Scan performance withing XOSTOR

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    @irtaza9 it scans all the VDI's on the SR to see if something has changed, if there's a need for coalesce and so on. I dont think it will be a big issue if you increase the auto-scan-interval value to lets say 5 minutes (300 seconds), but do remember, that everything regarding the VDI's on the SR will take up to 5 minutes to update, as well as triggering coalesce after removing snapshots.
  • Refresh the XCP-ng + XOSTOR ISO ?

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    That worked; thank you!!!
  • QCOW2 support on XOSTOR

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    @TestForEcho No ETA for now. Even before supporting QCOW2 on LINSTOR, we have several points to robustify (HA performance, potential race conditions, etc.). Regarding other important points: Supporting volumes larger than 2TB has significant impacts on synchronization, RAM usage, coalesce, etc. We need to find a way to cope with these changes. The coalesce algorithm should be changed to no longer depend on the write speed to the SR in order to prevent potential coalesce interruptions; this is even more crucial for LINSTOR. The coalesce behavior is not exactly the same for QCOW2, and we believe that currently this could negatively impact the API impl in the case of LINSTOR. In short: QCOW2 has led to changes that require a long-term investment in several topics before even considering supporting this format on XOSTOR.
  • XOSTOR on 8.3?

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    You can manually install XOSTOR yes.
  • XOSTOR / XOA down

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    @bdenv-r are you trying XOSTOR on 8.2 or 8.3 ? had many problem of performance and tap-drive locking my VDIs on 8.2 xostor would like to know if 8.3 xostor still have issues
  • XOSTOR 2 node Diskfull et 1 node Diskless

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    @olivierlambert Thanks !
  • Multiple disks groups

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    Hello, @DustinB The https://vates.tech/xostor/ says: The maximum size of any single Virtual Disk Image (VDI) will always be limited by the smallest disk in your cluster. But in this case, maybe it can be stored in the "2TB disks" ? Maybe others can answer, i didn't test it.
  • XOSTOR Global network disruption test

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  • Unable to add new node to pool using XOSTOR

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    Hello, I tried on a new pool. a little different scenario since i don't create xostor for now, on my previous example, i tried to add a node as replacement of an existing one.. I just run the install script only on node 1. When i try make node2 join the pool, i reproduce the incompatible sm error i got previously. The things which is "bizarre", is i don't have the license issue i got on Xen-orchestra. ( maybe it was finally not related ? ) Here is the complete logs. pool.mergeInto { "sources": [ "17510fe0-db23-9414-f3df-2941bd34f8dc" ], "target": "cc91fcdc-c7a8-a44c-65b3-a76dced49252", "force": true } { "code": "POOL_JOINING_SM_FEATURES_INCOMPATIBLE", "params": [ "OpaqueRef:090b8da1-9654-066c-84f9-7ab15cb101fd", "" ], "call": { "duration": 1061, "method": "pool.join_force", "params": [ "* session id *", "<MASTER_IP>", "root", "* obfuscated *" ] }, "message": "POOL_JOINING_SM_FEATURES_INCOMPATIBLE(OpaqueRef:090b8da1-9654-066c-84f9-7ab15cb101fd, )", "name": "XapiError", "stack": "XapiError: POOL_JOINING_SM_FEATURES_INCOMPATIBLE(OpaqueRef:090b8da1-9654-066c-84f9-7ab15cb101fd, ) at Function.wrap (file:///etc/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/_XapiError.mjs:16:12) at file:///etc/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/transports/json-rpc.mjs:38:21 at runNextTicks (node:internal/process/task_queues:60:5) at processImmediate (node:internal/timers:454:9) at process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)" }```