Make Continuous Replication/Disaster Recovery jobs apply the HideFromXenCenter=true flag
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Hey guys,
Yesterday I got round to implementing something I've been meaning to do for a long time: I tagged a bunch of VMs at our HQ as 'Critical', and setup a Continuous Replication job for them to replicate to another office's XCP-ng pool on a 2-hourly basis. Additionally, so that we can also roll back a full day if we need to, I set the retention to 12. Job done, I gave myself a pat on the back and went home.
Just got into work this morning and had a look at XCP-ng Center to see how it was all looking. Picture the combined amusement and surprise to find 8 copies of each replicated VM cluttering up the view. In hindsight this makes sense, but is there any way to filter these from the XCP-ng Center view? I know I can do it easily enough in the XOA, but in XC (that we use for >50% of VM management tasks) it isn't so obvious.
I see that VMs can be hidden by adding the key HideFromXenCenter=true to the other_config parameter for the object (https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xencenter/7-1/intro-hiddenobjects.html). Can this be added perhaps as an advanced option for the backup jobs? Or better yet, is there a way to make it happen already?
Thanks in advance for any help. Let me know if you need any more info from me!
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Hi,
Features used with Xen Orchestra are meant to be used with Xen Orchestra. XCP-ng Center is only community maintained, and we don't have resources here to work on this project too (or to make changes on a tool that just follows mainly Citrix XenCenter).
However, in the meantime, we are working on a new XO UI to have a view with a more similar look to XCP-ng Center, so everyone could get rid of it in the end
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Colour me intrigued! But I get the impression it's some way away.
Wonder if there's a scripty way to apply that flag to VMs with the CR tag then. Hmmmm.
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We plan to have a visible prototype for the end of the year.
Feel free to create a custom script for your own need
edit: also if you hide them in XCP-ng Center, then you'll need XOA to start them. Would it be easier to use XOA all along?
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Well I can click View/Show Hidden Objects easily enough.
Literally the main advantage of XCP-ng Center is the tree view. I personally try to use XO as much as possible, but for features that are available in both I do find myself falling back to XC for the more logical view. I'll very much be looking forward to this prototype!
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Hang on then, tree view is coming
