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    • olivierlambertO Offline
      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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      Indeed, I suppose it's related to Ryzen+Vega APU, because I can't reproduce on EPYC nor Ryzen without APUs.

      Regarding making the chance upstream, I'm not entirely confident to make the modification, because it's hard to evaluate the impact (our RC is pretty close now). But it's up to @stormi to decide 🙂

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      • stormiS Offline
        stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
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        At this stage, I'd rather document the issue to help people workaround it than change the default values inherited from Citrix (who tested the installer on a lot of hardware). I also suggest to open an issue at https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues so that other users that would meet the same issue could share their experience and let us try to estimate whether it's a widely spread issue or something very specific to some hardware.

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

          Looks like the best way to me 🙂

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            cg
            last edited by cg

            @cg said in XCP-ng 8.0.0 Beta now available!:

            https://forum.opsi.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10611 Et al.

            I created an issue, IMHO it would be good if the problem itself makes it to upstream to either bump someone to fix it or get feedback that problem is known/fixed in version X.Y.Z.

            For reference:
            https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/206

            nagilum99 created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

            closed Unable to boot installer with AMD Ryzen APUs #206

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            • stormiS Offline
              stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @cg
              last edited by

              @cg said in XCP-ng 8.0.0 Beta now available!:

              I created an issue, IMHO it would be good if the problem itself makes it to upstream to either bump someone to fix it or get feedback that problem is known/fixed in version X.Y.Z.

              Thanks for creating the issue.

              You could test with Citrix Hypervisor and then report it at https://bugs.xenserver.org
              Maybe they'll want to investigate even if the hardware is not officially supported. If someone can reproduce the issue on supported hardware, that would make things easier.

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                cg @stormi
                last edited by

                @stormi said in XCP-ng 8.0.0 Beta now available!:

                You could test with Citrix Hypervisor and then report it at https://bugs.xenserver.org
                Maybe they'll want to investigate even if the hardware is not officially supported. If someone can reproduce the issue on supported hardware, that would make things easier.

                Though I doubt it was woth the effort, as the support over there is well known (especially for not supported configurations etc.) I did it - for the reason of trying to improve stuff (and giving back to OSS community):
                https://bugs.xenserver.org/projects/XSO/issues/XSO-955

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                  cg
                  last edited by

                  I just did the upgrade from 7.6 to 8.0.0 beta via USB-stick (with workaround): I successfully upgraded the existing installation including the softwareraid on the first 2 SSDs.

                  # cat /proc/mdstat 
                  Personalities : [raid1] 
                  md127 : active raid1 sda[0] sdb[1]
                        117220736 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
                        bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk
                  

                  Everythings fine, even RAID survived. ZFS stuff will come later. Would be good if that would find a way into XCP-ng Center (is it in XOA yet?) for easier management. Likewise for Ext4.

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

                    Find a way to what?

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                      cg
                      last edited by

                      New SR -> Type -> ZFS... creatig a new SR via GUI/XCP-ng Center.

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

                        You should really keep an eye on XO dev 😉

                        https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/4266

                        It's coming this week 🙂

                        GHEMID-Mohamed opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

                        closed feat(xo-web/new-sr): list ZFS pools at SR creation #4266

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                          cg
                          last edited by

                          My time is (sadly) limited, I can't wacht/monitor everything.
                          XCP-ng Center? 😉

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

                            XCP-ng Center is only community maintained, so feel free to contribute if you want that inside 🙂

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                              cg
                              last edited by cg

                              XCP-ng already ate a bunch of time, and I'm sure it'll continue for testing etc
                              I'm Sysadmin with very limited coding ability - I'm definately out for that.

                              I guess it would need someone being good at C#.NET. Also XAPI would probably need to know about it (what may already be, as you're implementing it into XOA)...

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                              • olivierlambertO Offline
                                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                Clearly, adding feature in XCP-ng Center would require a lot of contributions, that's why I don't think it's the future of XCP-ng "client". Having one great client allows to focus all effort instead of "spreading" the thin capabilities on various similar "ways" to administrate it.

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                                • borzelB Offline
                                  borzel XCP-ng Center Team
                                  last edited by

                                  Yes, this seems to be the case 😕 But XCP-ng Center will remain as it is, at least.

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

                                    I think it's a good thing to focus on one "best" tier-one solution, especially on a "small" community like us 🙂

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                                      bnrstnr
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                                      HP DL360 v7 with (2) Intel E5649 working good so far. Just finished installation and yum updates and everything came right up, as expected.

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                                        cg
                                        last edited by cg

                                        As a sidenote for everyone interested into ZFS: Look at the release notes:
                                        https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases

                                        Especially for (my recommended to consider) dedup:

                                        Allocation classes #5182 - Allows a pool to include a small number of high-performance SSD devices that are dedicated to storing specific types of frequently accessed blocks (e.g. metadata, DDT data, or small file blocks). A pool can opt-in to this feature by adding a special or dedup top-level device.
                                        

                                        That means RAM is no more critical (for people who didn't have enough): These dater can now 'oflload' to SSDs, whereas special storage types like Intel Optane should be perfect for that, as they can demonstrate their advantages (high IOPS at small queues, durability, access-time).
                                        Optane m.2 cards became pretty affordable - but that feature requires mirroring, so you need 2 of them (I see them priced about 26 € for 16 GB)!

                                        As the satet It's not only for dedup, it can also cover small file blocks and metadata, lowering IOPS on your storage.

                                        ALSO: TRIM/discard support!

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                                          r53bertyboo
                                          last edited by r53bertyboo

                                          I've installed on a HP ML10 G9 server and all works fine on this server using UEFI based BIOS configuration etc.

                                          The only issue I have found so far is when imported vmdk images using the wizard, even when I choose to set the BIOS to UEFI after the import and conversation has completed the VM won't boot. After looking at the settings for the newly created VM the BIOS is set to BIOS not UEFI.

                                          Simple to resolve either be detaching the storage and removing/recreating the virtual machine and re-attaching the original imported storage. Or I am guessing (although haven't tried yet), using the console to set the machine type.

                                          So possibly an issue with the Import Wizard?

                                          UPDATED

                                          I tried the shell commands to change the imported VM to UEFI, and although initially it looks fine when examining the console and seeing that the BIOS setting has updated. When trying to start the VM it won't boot due to an error. So after detaching the disk and deleting the VM I recreated a new VM using UEFI and no disk attached. Then once created I attached the original imported disk and it works fine.

                                          Also I using VirtualBox to export a VM to OCI Format 1.0 which was setup running as UEFI, after the import into XCP it had changed the BIOS to BIOS not UEFI. So again I followed what I did above and the VM works fine.

                                          So it does look like an issue with the Import Wizard, although it allows you the option to choose BIOS type it doesn't honour the setting and reverts to standard BIOS.

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                                            micahgreene2 @olivierlambert
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