Clonezilla is my go to for doing that. I have a tutorial where I should how to migrate from Virtualbox to XCP-NG here:
https://youtu.be/wSTk9BLwF5k
Tom Lawrence
@lawrencesystems
Tech Enthusiast, Entrepreneur, Open Source Advocate, IT Business owner, YouTube Creator
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RE: Migrate from Virtualbox to xcp-ng
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RE: Why do I see this message?
I work with enterprise companies and they NEED those reminders to let them know they should be using the supported version. I don't really see them as annoying at all.
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RE: Tips on installing XO
That is enough to get it working and fine for most homelab environments.
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RE: Change default filter in VMs list from current "power_state:running"
It's a wonderful feature, you can have customized filters for VM, storage, Templates, and Pools. Combine that with using lots of tags and it makes larger deployments very manageable.
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RE: Overprovisioning CPU + RAM?
@MichaelCropper
I recently did a video tutorial on how XCP-NG virtual machine dynamic memory management and over allocation works. -
RE: The reality of OSS maintainer fatigue
Very well said and an excellent read. Now I need to read https://un.curl.dev/
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RE: XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀
This was a full backup not a delta so that makes sense. I think I need more of my lab servers to be on 8.3 so I can do some more testing. I did not find any issues and nothing broke using it so I need to try harder.
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RE: XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀
I did some testing with the 8.3 and it all went smooth except for one thing. We did a backup of a VM on 8.3 and if we try and restore it to version 8.2 I get the error
"IMPORT_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION"
which makes sense and it's just a lab system so nothing critical. Is there a way to bring it back to 8.2 or should I update the rest of my lab to 8.3?
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RE: Netdata package is now available in XCP-ng
@Danp Thanks, that makes sense. Perhaps is should show "Premium Feature" instead of "netdata plugin is necessary" when using the free versions.
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RE: Hot add hardware
@damjank
I have a video on dynamic memory here:
https://youtu.be/Lsi2-hAoKSE
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RE: how to get syslog to remote to work?
@djingo
My syslog stopped working (I think after one o the updates) and this bug still exists. If you trying removing it form the Pool or individual hosts in the Pool via XO it will not let you have it as blank. If you ssh in and use xsconsole you can remove the syslog server and but it will not let you specify a port. But once it has been removed from xsconsole you can go back into XO and add in the syslogserver along with a non-default port such as192.168.2.7:1521
and it will work.
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RE: Tips on installing XO
If you are going to do it manually then choose whatever you want, but /tmp might not make much sense to put something important.
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RE: Tips on installing XO
I have. a tutorial here on how to build from sources using https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater which can be done using a sudo user.
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RE: Tips on installing XO
That is enough to get it working and fine for most homelab environments.
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RE: Backup Design and or Feature for Managed IT Services
@john-c said in Backup Design and or Feature for Managed IT Services:
Could the tags play a part here
Yes, tagging each pool, storage, VM and Host with a customer name would make organizing this easy to do.
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Backup Design and or Feature for Managed IT Services
For the use case where an internal IT team for a single company is replacing VMWare with XCP-NG/XO having the integrated backup system it is great selling point.
On the other side, as a Managed Service Provider that has to manage many separate companies there is a challenge with that process and I am look for some suggestion and guidance that may lead to some feature requests.
The challenge is figuring out the best way to use XO for many clients. My idea is connecting all of our clients to an XOA instance we host so we have visibility in their environments to make sure they are patched and the backups are being managed.
Central Design Idea
- Have one XOA instance that we host in our infrastructure
- Create VPN to each client
- Have XOA Proxy at each client to handle local backups that go to on site client NAS
- Use S3 option to bring all backups back to our infrastructure
Challenges with this design
The ideal way for this to work would like the tools we currently use for VMWare management, which are Auvik for monitoring the stats and Veeam for handling backups. Both of those tools create tickets in our system to alert us of problems.Besides going into the XOA interface everyday or getting all notices sent via email I am not aware of any way to manage the success or failure of the backups for all clients. Maybe there is a way to do this that I am not aware of via the API? Does this sound like a good way to handle client management?
We have some developers and are willing to sponsor writing open source code to get these features done, but I first want to make sure I am on the right track in terms of design, or if each client should have their own XOA instance.
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RE: Any hardware recommendations? - consolidating desktop on server
I am not using and PCI pass through but I have three of these Ryzen systems and they have working great for over a year.
Parts list here: https://kit.co/lawrencesystems/ryzen-9-xcp-ng-virtualization-server-build-with-25gb
Video on the setup here:
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RE: New Rust Xen guest tools
@yann
Correct, changed VIF and each network has DHCP and the VM is set via DHCP.