XCP-ng
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Register
    • Login

    Introduce yourself!

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Off topic
    179 Posts 108 Posters 131.8k Views 19 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • P Offline
      pnunn
      last edited by

      I'm setting up a redundant infrastructure for our renewable (wind and solar) applications and am going to move from our existing single tenanted vmware setup to what ever comes next.

      At the moment xcp-ng is the front runner, we were within seconds of purchasing vmware licenses when I said lets try this first.

      Its a bit of a learning curve having come from linux kvm and lxd containers to vmware and now this.. but I have to say the forums are amazing (having hit them up a couple of times already).

      Really looking forward to this ride. Networking is the next challenge.

      Peter.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by

        Welcome on board @cocoon and @pnunn

        Indeed, we are REALLY happy of this community here, I think this is the first big success of XCP-ng: everyone gathering and helping each other!

        We started on the "technical success" side, so I'm confident we'll continue to improve and innovate.

        The last success we need to reach will be the commercial success (our pro support), allowing us to continue pushing resources into it 🙂

        I'd like to thanks again everyone in the community, we are doing something big here!

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • J Offline
          JohnPCooper
          last edited by

          I am an IT person. I qualified as an IT Practitioner during the Summer of 2006.

          I'm currently studying to become qualified as a web developer on a Bootcamp course. Utilising the HTML5, CSS, Javascript, node.js and Bootstrap etc.

          I'm likely to run xcp-ng as part of a small test of it for a small set of vms on web applications during my studies. As well as possibly afterwards.

          During that time there's a possibility I may upgrade the underlying bare metal. As I'm on a quite low end due to being on a low budget.

          I prefer VMs over containers as it makes it easier for web applications which work like Content Management Systems (CMS). Containers make the web application immutable so you would have to separate the database from the rest of the full stack. So that when you post new content using the CMS it will update immediately without having to re-do the container's image.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
          • V Offline
            Velociraptor85
            last edited by Velociraptor85

            Hej so I am an sysadmin and student ... guess thats common no 🙂 ?
            So for work I usually run around in consoles and setup stuff or fix stuff so I do my part to keep the machine running 🙂

            At work we use VMware and some old hardware was free so I got it ^^ and now I want to utilize it with XCP-ng and XOA since I really like the easy webinterface and the open source'ness ^^ of XCP-ng with realeases and fixes.

            So I got some knowledge in IT and I am always eager to learn something more ^^

            Have a nice day @ all

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
            • BuzzinHB Offline
              BuzzinH
              last edited by

              Hi I'm Oliver Allpress, I work @ a University local to me in the South East UK. My job title is IT Service Manager (Storage and Virtualisation). My team and I manage the University's datacenters, server hardware, storage and virtualisation needs.

              I came across XCP-ng on Tom Lawrence's Youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ ) and started getting into it.

              Thanks for all the hard work on the project and nice to meet you all.

              Ollie

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 4
              • A Offline
                advancedwebdeveloper
                last edited by

                I am Ivan from Kyiv/Ukraine. Used to work with Xen years ago - and only for x86_64 platform. Currently getting back to using latest version of XenServer for x86_64, considering starting to use it for ARM64 and looking forward for helping in porting in to MIPS.

                Registering here cause I am trying to find listeners and speakers for those conferences:

                https://devopsstage.com/
                https://2018.uapycon.org/

                Ivan

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • Z Offline
                  zerealfox
                  last edited by

                  Hello,
                  My name looks funny to English people and misspelled to Germans (it's German). My name is Pascal FUKS.
                  I'm from Belgium and using Citrix Xen since the first version. I'm a former Citrix Service Provider (CSP). But, the prices became exaggerated for small customers, and my former company stopped all activities in 2017.
                  I'm still using and old version of Citrix Xen Server on a 3 hosts clusters and starts to prepare an XCP-ng migration.
                  My first goal, coming here, is to exchange with other skilled (and less skilled) members about configurations, workarounds, and nice to have features.
                  Cheers to all,
                  Pascal

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
                  • K Offline
                    Kiotsoukis
                    last edited by

                    Hi, my name is Alexander, I'm workinf as an system administrator in the system integration department. Currently I'm testing XCP-ng with HA-iSCSI and HA-lizard and XOCE to evaluate, if XO is usable for our needs and if we should get a support contract.

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                    • olivierlambertO Offline
                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                      last edited by

                      Hey thanks for both of you for the intro here 🙂 And welcome in our community!

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • K Offline
                        karlisi
                        last edited by

                        Hi, I am Karlis, I manage small server/network infrastructure, our VMs are hosted on Xenserver. Some time ago we needed to redesign management and backup system for our VMs and we found XO. Now we are in process to upgrade our hosts to XCP-NG.

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                          last edited by

                          Hi! Funny thing: we did the same "process" here 😉 XS, then XS+XO, then XCP-ng+XO 😄

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                          • borzelB Offline
                            borzel XCP-ng Center Team
                            last edited by

                            Hi @karlisi 🙂 same thing happened to us at work 😉

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                            • E Offline
                              esyx
                              last edited by

                              Hello! I am Esyx. I am relatively new to virtualization. My background is mainly with consumer level hardware, and doing things on bare-metal. After playing around with an RPi for the past year or so, and exploring the things I can do in terms of self-hosting for my extended family... I have decided to start building a home lab in hopes of learning system administration, and hope to start going for certifications soon to make a career change. I chose to use XCP-NG, (also using Xen Orchestra), because I love what you guys are doing. Keep up the great work!

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                              • G Offline
                                Gerhard Roediger
                                last edited by Gerhard Roediger

                                Heyho o/
                                well, my name should be obvious, as it is displayed in that neat little html element next to the date above. What do I do? I do all sorts of IT related things in a mid-sized enterprise in Austria. Fairly new to all the virtualization stuff as I once upon a time just was just a software developer and now I sit here in a sysadmin chair XD Even the programming times were at the time Java 1.4 came out. Sooo quite a bit rusty on all edges 😄
                                I am happy to say, that I can operate pretty free here. So I can test out different new things I have not seen yet and try to integrate that in our company if useful. xcp-ng is one of the things to try.

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
                                • M Offline
                                  Martín Lorente
                                  last edited by

                                  Hello everybody, my name is Martín, from Spain (so sorry for my poor English). I've been administering xenserver since 2010, fortunatelley, not too hard, beucause it works like a charm the most of the time. After being stalled in xenserver 7.2 for years, I've finally convinced my boss to move to xcp-ng, so here I am, with a new pool of 5 Lenovo SN550 and a fresh install of XCP-NG. Initially, we are doing with xcp-ng center to smooth the transition, although I'm running a XOA VM for a long, curiously I can't register it, but it is another story that I'll post as soon as I find the correct section.

                                  Thanks for all your effort on the project and selfless help.

                                  beshlemanB 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
                                  • beshlemanB Offline
                                    beshleman @Martín Lorente
                                    last edited by

                                    @Martín-Lorente Welcome!

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                    • M Offline
                                      Machine22
                                      last edited by Machine22

                                      Hey there

                                      I go by machine22,Not from around here😊 Alien👽 I am cyber security Analyst by Profession. I like running Labs before deploying systems in a live environment where i begin pentesting or learning a new technology and the rest you know what comes. I am a huge advocate for open source software when bored i like to break things looking for weaknesses.

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
                                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                        last edited by

                                        Welcome!

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • J Offline
                                          jgibbons
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi Guys!

                                          I am the CTO at a technology company, we are a big VMWare house (for now 🙂 ). Really excited to dive into more XCP-NG. We did work with Citrix a couple of years ago, as a part of a very lengthy quotation process, but ultimately decided to stick with VMWare.

                                          We are a software development company, so love the fact XCP-NG is open source, and we can contribute / modify it as we see fit.

                                          Thanks @olivierlambert for all the work in getting it off the ground;

                                          James

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                                          • olivierlambertO Offline
                                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                            last edited by olivierlambert

                                            Welcome @jgibbons !

                                            Feel free to share here, any work/contribution but also all your questions 🙂

                                            Also, XCP-ng is a real teamwork thing: both inside Vates but also with this great community.

                                            J 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                            • First post
                                              Last post