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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.
XEN is a beautiful product and should no be killed by Citrix,
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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.
@olivierlambert : i saw You don't have an Italian translation of XO, If You want to prepare the translation file like for DE one I can help. -
@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.
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Hi,
IT consultant/CTO, started using XS at 6.0 (for Sass comany and friendly web sites hosting). Nothing special really, mostly local storage non pool servers (almost doing software raid but never dared....) .
I recognize myself more in this project than XS 7.x new direction. Probably because I don't match Citrix's current commercial target.
I believe it is incredibly hard for Citrix to cater for all market segments and XCP-ng seems to be as gracefull as possible an approach to please a greater number of supporters while promoting the quality of Citrix's work.
Also been following XOA for a while (to give our devs autonomy) and I hope that we can continue a constructive and respectfull collaboration with Citrix and secure the future of XS, XCP-ng and XOA.
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Hello everyone,
I've been using XenServer in a home lab environment since 7.2 so I am new to virtualization. Glad to see this project getting the support and attention it rightly deserves. How can I contribute as I would love to get two of the xcp-ng stickers to show my support. -
@fox-mulder Hi there!
There is multiple ways to contribute
By hanging out around here is the first one! -
Hi Everybody,
working with Xen since 2009, and with a private cluster since 2012.
In the past I wrote part of the installation of the RBDSR plugin in order to allow Xen to connect to Ceph!
Now I would like to contribute to run Ceph natively on XCP-ngThanks for this project!
We can make it together!
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Hi there!
I have been hired by @olivierlambert following the successful kickstarter for XCP-ng and am now working full time on that project. I've got experience in linux systems in general and RPM packaging in particular (as a contributer to the Mageia linux distribution), as well as development (python, C++...). On the other hand, XenServer and XCP-ng are new to me, but I'll learn fast and I'm not alone
My first task is help releasing version 7.5.
Samuel
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@stormi happy to have you. Hope to see some great action!
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I've used ESXi et al in a professional environment, but mostly have wanted to shy away from anything that reeks of potential vendor-lock for my own personal "hobbyism".
I'm hoping in the very near future to deploy several (probably about five) (personal) servers into geographically diverse locations, all of which will be troublesome and rare to regain physical access to for administration; I'm hoping that this project will allow me ease of administration and reliability.
As much as I would love to truly "DIY" with e.g., Debian and XL, I just don't trust myself to maintain as high reliability/uptime (not to mention easy cross-site consistency) as a "prepacked shrink-wrapped management ecosystem" on the bare metal can provide, and it's great to see one of these with a dedication to FOSS principles.
