Migrate from XOA to Built from Sources
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I searched for existing threads but didn't find anything - surprised this hasn't been talked about. Maybe my search-fu sucks or I used the wrong keywords.
Title says it all, I currently have some XCP-NG hosts managed by XOA and want to migrate to XO from sources. I don't need help following the build directions, they are very clear and within my technical ability to follow. My question is, how can I gracefully (as possible) migrate from XOA to an XO built from sources? This is a lab and I'm more interested in the features than supportability.
Also, what are the reasons not to do this? Even the entry $80/mo is more than I want to pay to run the lab and the core feature set in free XOA is lacking.
I had XOA die once and I assume this would be a similar recovery, topology and VMs will be intact, users will need recreated. What else should be on my radar?
Thanks
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See this thread for the details on how to accomplish this.
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@Danp Perfect, thanks.
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Also, what are the reasons not to do this? Even the entry $80/mo is more than I want to pay to run the lab and the core feature set in free XOA is lacking.
Yes, there's no blocker to do it, just export the config and import
No hidden agenda to force you to pay anything, I even wonder why did you suspect that before searching in the XO UI first 
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@olivierlambert no suspicion here of an agenda, just want to make sure that I have reasonable expectations. I’m relatively new to XCP-NG and XO, just migrated my lab from VMWare earlier this year and didn’t know building from sources was an option. I just followed Tom’s tutorial and deployed XOA.
FWIW I think the pricing is very reasonable, especially being flat rate, for businesses.
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No worries
For business, we have a new pricing incoming, that will be more fair for SMBs (combining XCP-ng and XOA into one simple offer). Stay tuned!
Obviously, we do not target home labbers with that, in those cases, go for the sources
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@olivierlambert and honestly, that's more than fair because I was paying VMUG $500 a year for the privilege of maintaining skills on their platform. I've never looked back and other than load balancing being locked behind the highest tier, I don't feel the pricing needs too much tweaking to be attractive to SMBs, but working in that space a lot I know pennies are dollars so I'm sure it will help with market penetration. I'd much rather suggest SMBs deploy XCP-NG and XOA than get tangled up in the VMWare/Broadcom madness.
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Thank you! You can make the difference by promoting the solution, that's part of how the community can give back
