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    • borzelB Offline
      borzel XCP-ng Center Team
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      I'm an admin, running complete company IT in different locations (inhouse, company group, datacenter) and some IT for customers. First I worked as an developer at my company and transformed to an admin.

      We used bare metal for years, since 2008 VmWare ESXi and XenServer starting from version 6.5. XenCenter (for administering/setup) and XenOrchestra (user self-service, backups, Windows-less access to vm's) are my main tools at work.

      In my freetime I'm currently trying to help with the building and branding of "XenCenter"/xenadmin/XCP-Center or how you will call it in future (https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin). This is my first real contribution to an open source project and I'm very exited excited 😉

      Great Project!

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        kudzu_kdk
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        Linux inside since 2003. I've been using various of virtualization (Xen and VMWare mostly). Big fan of Open Source, Debian GNU/Linux and everything around it. I'd like to help every way I can 🙂

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          gangsterrapper22
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          I have virtualization as hobby and I used Xenserver 7.2 before XCP-ng. I use it mainly in my home environment. In my freetime I am working together with @borzel to build the XenCenter for XCP-ng. I am currently build the MSI installer for it.

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            Alko
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            Hi everybody.
            I am one-man- IT guy.
            Everywhere I worked, I implemented virtualisation for ease of use. Began with VMW ESXi, then discovered XenServer 6.
            Since I am using 2 server pool scenario, I am interested in this feature. For now, this is implemented using HA-LIZARD solution.
            I am glad community is alive and will be testing XCP-ng this week. I can help financially and testing vise.

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              A Former User
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              Hello!

              I manage a two-server pool for a high school club with a tiny budget. We try to use open-source or in-house software as much as possible, so being able to move from Citrix's jail of a licensing system to XCP-NG is really great! We've got two X3650 M3s running XenServer and HA-Lizard that I hope to move to XCP-NG.

              If I could ask for one thing, it would be XenCenter running (or under mono) in Linux.

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                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO @Guest
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                @angelrey said in Introduce yourself!:

                Hello!

                If I could ask for one thing, it would be XenCenter running (or under mono) in Linux.

                Use Xen Orchestra 😉 See this thread: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/5/xen-orchestra

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                  A Former User @olivierlambert
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                  @olivierlambert

                  Does XOA support managing link bonding and custom fields? HA-Lizard requires both unfortunately.

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                  • olivierlambertO Online
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                    last edited by olivierlambert

                    I'm not sure to see the connection. It's a web UI for XenServer and XCP-ng, to manage, backup and delegate VMs.

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                      A Former User @olivierlambert
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                      @olivierlambert

                      Our system uses HA-Lizard to sync local storage between our two machines. In order to shut down the cluster, we need to change values in the custom fields that xencenter supports to disable HA-Lizard's VM auto-restarting and disk replication. To be honest, I've only tried XOA very briefly and I'll definitely give it a try when I get a chance, but as far as I know it doesn't support some of the things that we need.

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                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                        If it's just exposing some custom fields to expose in XO, this would be trivial 😉 You can report missing features here: http://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/

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                          A Former User @olivierlambert
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                          Ooh ok! Will do 🙂

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                            lavamind
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                            Hi everyone, I'm a sysadmin at a College in Montreal, Canada. Been XenServer free edition users since version 5.0. As for probably many of you, 7.3 was the last straw for us from Citrix, so really happy to see this project picking up!

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                              lavamind @acp
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                              @acp That bug is fixed in XenServer/XCP-ng 7.4, see XSO-802

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                                acp @lavamind
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                                @lavamind good. I was following a different thread of the bug. Back to try iscsi again.

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                                  kladiv
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                                  Hi guys! I'm Claudio from Italy.
                                  I work daily as Enterprise System Engineer and DevOp and. I use XenServer since 6.2 and setup lots of standalone and cluster enviroments.
                                  I really appriaciate XO and XCP-NG projects!

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                                    zamboni03
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                                    I have been using Xen since 2012 when I started working on a team to develop an Orchestration layer for an IaaS company. Having experience with XO for the last year, I am impressed with the features available for my home lab. I am excited to see a similar evolution of XCP-ng.

                                    Keith

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                                      scotth
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                                      I've been using XEN for quite a while and am used to it. I started on XCP b 4.9 or some such several years ago. Thanks for starting this project. In the next few months, I'll be converting my XS 7.2 to XCP-ng. I'll post back.

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                                      • DanpD Offline
                                        Danp Pro Support Team
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                                        Hi all,

                                        Long time user of XS / XO. Looking forward to switching to XCP-ng.

                                        Dan

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                                          turgin
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                                          My interest in Xen is for home use. I'm in the pursuit of HA at home so that when I travel for work I am less likely to get angry family tech support calls. Everything from my firewall (Sophos), DNS, DHCP, security camera NVR, and TV DVR via CableCard tuners is dependant on my virtual environment. Right now I have two hyperconverged hosts running ESXi and Starwind VSAN. Everything is working well but when I started down this path a few months ago I wanted to give XenServer a try. VMWare is what I know and have used for many years at work (since 3.x) but I wanted to learn something new. The Citrix free licensing changes scared me away and so I stuck with what I knew. Now that XCP-ng is a reality I am eager to try it. I'll build it up on my existing cluster to start with using nested virtualization and if all goes well I'll switch everything over once I'm comfortable. For my shared storage I plan to try building a Gluster VSAN with 2 replicas and an arbiter. I maybe even try HA-Lizard. Will definitely be using XO.

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                                            sctechsystems
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                                            Hi all

                                            Have been using Xen Server since version 7.2, haven't updated since then. Spun up XCP-NG as a test bed and like it very very much.
                                            We are an all Linux house primarily but we do host some Windows Systems for our clients (We're an MSP) which run on HyperV. My Main Linux servers are being moved over to XCP-NG, I also have a couple more servers ready to load it onto, which are going to be a backup for when HyperV fails (which it inevitably will because, Windows).
                                            One of the clients which we manage is an all Windows house with Hyper-V, so I am also going to put in an XCP-NG server as a backup platform 'just in case' this is where Xen Center manager would be good as there are a couple of die-hard Windows admins within the company who will not even entertain the idea of XCP-NG unless it has some sort of Windows side management. Thanks to this forum I have found the MSI to Install Xen Center. This will be a big help.

                                            Also I didnt know that building XOA (Community) from source would give you the full version.

                                            Like I Say we are an all Linux house here, we are SC Tech Systems from the UK and we manage IT Support and Services for local and regional small to large businesses - XCP-NG is going to be a big platform for us and the way we run our services!!

                                            Will certainly be keeping an eye on this forum.
                                            Thanks
                                            Chris - SC Tech Systems - Director.

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