@Danp That is it! @olivierlambert said in Automatically balance VMs between Hosts within a single pool: https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/load_balancing Thanks!

@Danp said in Running a Backup Job for a Pool that wasn't previously in said backup job: @DustinB said in Running a Backup Job for a Pool that wasn't previously in said backup job: Are you suggesting for just this run I remove the old pool from this section and rerun the job? Yes. Making those changes now and running the job. Thanks for confirming

@olivierlambert Bringing this back up because I'm thinking of retiring old servers in exchange for new mini-PC. Looking around in XO, I don't see anywhere to click to promote a server in a pool to controller (master), am I missing something? My plan would be to join all new mini-pc to the existing pool, migrate VMs to these new servers, then take controller (master) onto one of the mini-pc. After that I would remove the older servers from the pool and shut them down. Is the proper way to use the above command, or go to the local console and just force promote one of the new mini-pc to be the new controller? [edit] found it, been a while since I've set up a pool. Click where the arrow is and you get choices on which server in the pool you want to control things. [image: 1737994794797-xcp_commander.png]

@Danp said in Patching and trying to Pool Hosts after they've been in production: Warm migration should work in this case because the VM is halted then restarted as part of the process. See here for more details. Sweet, I'll setup something small on the old host for testing and use the Warm Migration process.