Introduce yourself!

Marc.pezin

Thanks for the feedback @asbtech
If you are looking for pro support option you can take a look right here: https://xcp-ng.com/
We are aiming XCP-ng to be usable by companies in production environment as well as homelab

asbtech

@marc-pezin Thanks very much for that once I have started to do some implementations here in Australia I will be in contact.

stormlcc

Good day to all!

I have been testing Xen server since version 6 using 3 old i7 desktop PCs in my lab and they are working fantastically well. Too bad v7 onwards Citrix disabled the most important features for the free edition so I stopped using it. Am excited that this project is launched!

Regards,
Ken

txsastre

hi there.

I'm senior engineer.
I work as a sysadmin for about 25 years (and all you can imagine related to computers) in a town hall, city is about 30.000 citizen.

I started using vmware 4.0, from there we migrate to XenServer 6.5 from there to 7.1. Then once I saw the magic movement of Citrix towards 7.3 and its limits I began to study alternatives.

Basically I was goint to oVirt (Red Hat virtualization open source community solution), and then appeared XCP-ng and I also began to study it.

We have two remote CPD, and in one of them I have the testing machines (3 servers + fibre channel storage), on that one I'm testing XCP-ng 7.4.1 and also XenOrchestra which provides a huge functionality and add-ons to XCP-ng (or XenServer) that are really useful (for example backup-ng).

So, for those advantages I will try to keep on XCP-ng, because it has XO, I don't have to do a lot of VM migration, due XenServer and XCP-ng are 99% identical, and also the community and the professionals, they always try to help you and the software and its characteristics are always evolving and getting better.

I have to way that I really excited about 7.5 XCP-ng because I think is going to be the path to follow.

well, thats all !

thanks for all.

r0b0ty

Good morning everyone.

I'm a complete beginner to servers and virtualization. I'm putting together a FreeNAS box and in the meantime playing with a test installation of it in VirtualBox (my only exposure to virtualization so far). It was in watching tutorials on FreeNAS that I came across XCP-NG and became intruiged. My biggest question is, "Why XCP-NG over VirtualBox?" (for my home setup). I currently have an older desktop running Manjaro Linux... then use VirtualBox to run standalone operating systems and tools within it. It seems silly that I have to install a full OS to then install VirtualBox... to then install the various other test OSs. I think it why XCP-NG would be beneficial in this state. Still just learning, and I'm sure the answer is in this forum. Have a great day!

olivierlambert

Welcome to our last community members!

@r0b0ty XCP-ng is a great way to "train" yourself on enterprise-grade virtualization software. It's very similar to ESXi and Hyper-V. If you want to learn a bit more on how Xen works (Xen is the "virtualization" engine inside XCP-ng) you can check this:

tjkreidl

Hi, everyone. Nice to see this project turning into reality. I will try to spend time here as possible, which is hard with already being spread thinly. I've been a XenServer user for around a decade and am as interesting in learning as well as contributing whatever knowledge might be helpful to the community.

Best regards,
-=Tobias

olivierlambert

Yaaay! Welcome @tjkreidl !!!

borzel

@tjkreidl Hey! I saw your profile picture many times in the XenServer forum Welcome!

olivierlambert

@tjkreidl is a real legend there

r1

@tjkreidl Hearty welcome to the community. We look forward for your insights and expert advises. Cheers

AllooTikeeChaat

@tjkreidl - Fab to see the post today .. seriously good news!

olivierlambert

haha is not just a legend inside Citrix forum but even already here

maxcuttins

@tjkreidl said in Introduce yourself!:

Hi, everyone. Nice to see this project turning into reality. I will try to spend time here as possible, which is hard with already being spread thinly. I've been a XenServer user for around a decade and am as interesting in learning as well as contributing whatever knowledge might be helpful to the community.

Best regards,
-=Tobias

WOW!
We have Tobias joining our community!

Logik

Re: Introduce yourself!

Hi all,

I am using XenServer ON and OFF for a couple of years now. For current setup, it's our main hypervisor for Apache Cloudstack Based cloud. As ACS is orchestrator, I hardly need to touch anything at XS. But Since Citrix recent announcement about licensing, I was seriously planning for KVM. One of my friends suggested XCP-ng to me. Hence came here. I am planning to test this as soon as I get some time.

BTW, I believe XCP-NG 7.4 is compatible with ACS 4.11.1, right?

olivierlambert

Hi @Logik and welcome!

Cloudstack support should work since the compatibility was added during April: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/2523

I can't tell for the exact integration in Cloudstack itself, you should take a look.

Note: we are at XCP-ng 7.5 today

DagSonsteboSB created this issue in apache/cloudstack

closed XCP-ng 7.4 support #2523

redgatorxen

I am a complete noob with Xen, although I've been a VirtualBox user for a decade. I was given a project at work and Xen was suggested as a solution. I worked through Fedora 28 (no joy), Debian 9.5.0 (workie but clunky), XenServer (a sledgehammer to kill a gnat and the giant does not want to let go), and then found XCP-ng...

Still getting my brain wrapped around the possibilities.

The vGPU feature is near and dear to my heart. I have release-vs-hardware issues with GPUs all of the time and this looks like it might be a way to be more productive in my troubleshooting. Haven't shot anything yet, but looking forward to it.

a.barcus

Hello all!

There are exciting things happening here! I am thrilled to know that there are people in the world who are ready, willing, and able to respond positively to what is certainly an unpopular move by Citrix.

I am currently supporting an environment that includes unlicensed XenServer 7.0 systems. I plan to migrate the guests from these systems to new hardware and a hypervisor for which I can obtain paid, professional support as the guests hosted on these systems are critical to running the business. XCP-ng and "Citrix Hypervisor" are both on my short list.

Thank you to Olivier ( @olivierlambert ) and associates for providing XCP-ng as an option and for offering XCP-ng Pro support.

Andy B.

jrcpoole

I'm using XCP-ng for a home white box, having been on Citrix Xenserver for a few years.
I would support Citrix, but there is no subscription level for a small home-user. Now that features have been moved from Free to paid Citrix subscription, I have migrated to XCP-ng.
I have the same subscription level issue with Xen Orchestra too!

I'm a long time Linux user, for the last decade or so Gentoo.
At work I use VMware, but I do not believe the pass-through flexibility matches Xen.

My setup is a single host with a NAS for VM backups and a VM running Bareos very slowly!
I have a couple of graphics cards and a couple of USB cards which are passed-through at the PCI level for VM's that connect to the Lounge TV + keyboard and the Kitchen VDU + keyboard. Two of the local drives are in an mdraid config for most local storage. A windows VM on the mdraid and pass-through can comfortably handle my Son's Overwatch.

I may provision a second mini-server host to run MythTV Backend and drive the TV, but I like how currently one box drives the lot and saves power.

JDS

Hi all. I'm a sysadmin for a large engineering corporation with a strong VMware background and am working in converged infrastructure now with NetApp, Cisco UCS and VMware.

I'm also the one-man IT guy for the church I attend, hosting apps like Nextcloud and Icecast, website, etc. I host the same apps at my home, as well as things like Plex, AD, and a few other things. Free ESXi was great, but I didn't have options like DR without spending a ton of money..enter XCP-ng and XO. I learned of it this year and after some initial testing, fully committed at home and at the church. pfSense runs at both sites, using VPN to connect both sites. I can do continuous replication in both directions so in case one site goes down I can bring everything up easily in the other site.

This project has made my life easier for sure, so thanks to all who have contributed! I hope to be able to contribute with what knowledge of the project I have gained in the short time I've played with it.