@nikade that is one of the downfalls. Limit on backup, I have a 10Gbp iSCSI backbone with 10Gbp core network but maximum I am able to achieve is 80mbps maximum turns outs it’s a known problem according to Olivier Citrix Hypervisor also has the same problem.

@waveguide This makes sense. Windows will treat it as changing hardware due to the Boot environment and BIOS.

It is no different to doing a motherboard swap on a Server or PC.

Windows should reactivate though once connected to the Internet.

@jasonnix Yes XCP-ng has vSAN look here https://xcp-ng.org/docs/storage.html#storage-types it is called XOSAN.

XCP-ng will work fine with EMC & QNAP. I am using two EMC iSCSI SANs with my 3 node Cluster.

@olivierlambert I am open to building stuff into XCP-ng if my knowledge was there to do it.

@olivierlambert Have a great holiday you deserve it

@olivierlambert

Just a update, I have moved from the Single Socket Server to the Dell R710 with 128GB of RAM successfully all VMs are working I have also updated to 8.2

Howdy folks, just curiosity I have staging environments for Production Public VMs I like to test upgrades and changes on staging environments, is it possible to copy a existing Disk to use on another staging Virtual Machine without messing with the existing VM?

Regards

@waveguide This makes sense. Windows will treat it as changing hardware due to the Boot environment and BIOS.

It is no different to doing a motherboard swap on a Server or PC.

Windows should reactivate though once connected to the Internet.

@olivierlambert I am open to building stuff into XCP-ng if my knowledge was there to do it.

@olivierlambert Thanks for your reply. I will have a play over the weekend. Have a few days as it’s bank holiday so I can get something’s done. Are you going to implement the UPS API you did for me? I’ve chooses to go with PowerChute in the end over NUT. I will post some documentation once I have implemented it and tested if that’s okay.

Regards.

@olivierlambert Hope you have a great time away sir Would it be possible if you could add dark mode to the next version of XO 5.9.4 ? I know you mentioned about it being in version 6. Anyways have a good weekend

@olivierlambert That's great, hope something great comes out of it. Good luck

@olivierlambert said in Dell cancels VMWare contract after Broadcom purchase:

Time to make a phone call to Dell

Yes sir do it. I hopefully a contract between you / Vates and Dell is on the horizen. Really hope XCP-ng comes as the standard for Virtualization just like ESXi once was.

@olivierlambert That's great, any luck with partnership with Dell?

@tc-atwork that’s not entirely true. I’ve had a few clients that has had issues with Veeam where backups get stuck and never finish until you restart Veeam. When having problems like this, this in my opinion is not good enough for backups.

My previous job had 8 Hypervisors in a Cluster which also used Veeam and backups was getting stuck.

@jasonnix there is having something faster and there is something that’s going to be reliable. I’d rather compromise on faster backup speed and have the designed backup system.

I’m not saying that Veeam isn’t going to be reliable but what I am going to say is that you are at more risk of backups not being reliable and you are going to have to consult Veeam if you need help resolving a issue, where with XO you are not going to have any problems as it’s designed to work.

Not only that you need to think about extra licensing too.

If this is a Production environment I would go with the XCP-ng and XO because if something goes wrong you are going to be a laughing stock to the company it will be embarrassing. If it’s a homelab then it doesn’t really matter if it breaks.