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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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Hi all,
Long time user of XS / XO. Looking forward to switching to XCP-ng.
Dan
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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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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
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I work with VMWare and used free ESXI for home for a while now but have been interested in Xen for a few months now. When XCP-ng was available I soon downloaded and installed and are looking forward to furture releases. It is replacing the free ESXI I have at home and with XOC its is a great setup. I want to get freenas working as a VM with passthrough but struggling at the moment.
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Hi!
I have been using Xen for nearly 10 years, now. I started with VirtualIron and changed over to Xenserver when Citrix closed VI.
My use-case is mostly a company-network of a mid-size-company.I still think Xenserver/XCP-ng is one of the best platforms (thats why I became a sponsor). There are no very good alternatives.
- VMWare is only a good solution if you pay for the "large" Enterprise bundles
- Proxmox/oVirt is very limited
- HyperV is a Microsoft Product...
What I really like on Xenserver/XCP-ng is the possiblity to run the same Hypervisor with the same featureset on every test-server, production-cluster, and the possibility to live-migrate between pools.
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Hi,
working / worked with VMWare for some time now as professional IT employee and as a user of a XEN server by my VPS vendor. Never worked with Xenserver or XO(A) till now.
At home I have three linux servers on old hardware and was looking for a way to simplify installations and updates and get rid of the old hardware.
Seen the kickstarter project, backed, and got a link
Last weekend I installed XCP-ng and after 4 attempts (my fault: never use a new server without updating the firmwares) it was working and running. Main repository on the server itself, second one on the NAS and iso-repo on the nas. Installed first Xen Orchestra to install a new VM and then installed XO to use as main console for installation. It was / is not clear for me if this is the right way but it works.Installed several linux servers for testing and decomissioned the first hardware one after a few hours. I am impressed with the ease of installation and the usage of Xo, also thanks to @DustinB for the install scripts.
Seems that I have now an easy way of getting to know other stuff and playing with os´ses without being kicked around by my wife to remove my machines from the dining table.
Thanks for this project!
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I am a sysadmin for more than 20 years now, and work for a lot of different customers (profit an non-profits) using a mix of windows and linux. I use Xenserver for virtualization for several years (started with 5.5) and i really like the product.
IMHO the best virtualization solution around.
I got caught by the 7.1 Citrix trick (don't mention 7.3) and I love the route to XCP-ng.
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I'm using Xen since 2008 as hosting provider then in 2014 due to a problem on one of my servers I switched to XenServer primary for ease of administration with XenCenter before and Xen Orchestra after. Then reading XO Blog I discovered XCP-ng, I installed a pool of 2 servers for test and waiting for stable realase to upgrade all my servers, some still on Xen 4.6, to XCP-ng.
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@nix67 sure, I'll do it and report back here with an .it file ready to translate
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I started with XCP 1.0 a few years ago then 1.1 and 1.6 'till xenserver 6.2 became open source. Been with xenserver ever since. I run a small (one man band) company providing IT and sysadmin support to fourteen small to medium sized companies. All are virtualized on various versions of xenserver. All are using standalone servers. Some more recent ones use bcache local storage with redundant mdadm array as backing device and ssd as caching device. /dev/bcache0 then becomes local repository so all vms in repo benefit from ssd caching. Citrix pissed me off with the release of xs7.3 so I am really pleased to find this fork. Having started with XCP 1.0 it feels like coming home.
I came into IT nearly 20 years ago having spent the previous 30 years in electronic engineering. I am self taught. I have to say I found electronics easier... -
I run a IT services organization that specializes in helping Small businesses who need real IT help but can't afford a full time IT guy. This ranges from web and email hosting, VoIP services, private file sync servers, disaster recovery planning, and network security. All of that is built on XenServer. Or was.
Then features began to disappear, and I started looking to where I was going to shift. Thankfully XCP-ng very quickly became my choice. It really is the backbone of everything I am doing, and I knew the direction Citrix was headed wouldn't work for my clients. I am looking forward to seeing where this project goes, keep up the already great work!
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I also run an IT service provider in the UK, specialising in providing assistance to organisations that cannot afford, or justify the expense of in-house expertise. I have a number of clients running XenServer 7.1 and am looking to switch them over to XCP-ng as soon as is practical.
I am a software developer myself, and whilst I generally don't work with Microsoft products, I have been playing around with the XCP Centre build and have a version up and running. It seems to work just fine. If anyone needs any help building it for themselves, I can probably assist (though the project does seem to have a maintainer already??).
Happy to help out with coding, testing, documentation etc.
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@mdsystems just download it here: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v7.4.1-MSI
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@borzel said in Introduce yourself!:
@mdsystems just download it here: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v7.4.1-MSI
Thanks for the link. I was more keen to build it for myself following the instructions and found that there gaps for those who are not familiar with the tools. So, my offer stands for those inquisitive folks like me.
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A Citrix Consultant/Engineer and been playing with XenServer since 2012. Work a lot with XenApp/XD on Vmware in production environments but my home lab has always been XS.
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I am a computer science student, passionate about server systems administration and virtualization. I arrived here because Xen intrigues me, I want to discover other things than KVM / VMware / Hyper-V, curiosity you know
I'm more a KVM/VMware guy, i'm looking for something else for my first homelab virtualization server, and I discover XCP-ng last week on Reddit. Everything works as I wish, despite some concepts to understand, the product suits me for my homelab, especially XOA. And because the recent decisions from Citrix for XS... -
I'm the owner of tiny company, focussed on consultancy and tailor-made cloud hosting solutions.
I've been using XenServer for years. My own company runs two pools of hosts and is responsible for the maintenance of a bunch of other installations.I've sponsored the startup of XCP-ng and I'll probably help out if I can to keep the project going. I had a real problem when Citrix decided to all of a sudden significantly reduce their free offering. I'm very excited to see the project get up to steam.
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closed 15 years working as IT this spring, with a further background as an intern in my college NOC in the early 90s.
been working with XenServer since 2011, maybe late 2010. Worked both in private sector academic isntitutuions usually in roles spanning IT and Bus.Admin for academic projects in CS.
Since 2012 head of the IT-dpt in a small newspaper, and as you can imagine, the combination lends itself to a shortage of resources. Not to mention we're in Greece and I;m guessing you've all have heard how our economy has gone down the drain over the last decade.I'm generally satisfied with XS, it has covered our expanding needs adequately. Less so with XenApp, which we used and semi-abandoned eventually. We have too modest XS pools in production, and a 2-server one in OLD hardware for tests.
plus a small 2-server pool at my homeLab
Beyond that experience in Linux, some BSD, Windows AD, a lot of old school networking and firewalling. Ditto in EMC storage, less so in Netapp.
