@stormi Microcode updated on affected Gen11 i7. Running normally.
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
@gduperrey I jumped in all the way by mistake... I updated a wrong host, so I just did them all. Older AMD, Intel E3/E5, NUC11, etc. So far, so good. Add/migrate/backup/etc VMs are working as usual. Good for guest tools too, but mine are mostly Debian 7-11. Stuff is as usual so far.
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RE: Can I just say thanks?
I agree and I'll say it again, Thanks! It's not just Linux/Xen stuff. It is XCP-ng and XO that make everything work as a cohesive vertical open-source solution (some nice buzz words). Thanks to the Vates team and community that have built and support it. I look forward to ongoing continuous improvement and innovation!
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
@bleader Updates running on several old and new intel machines (including microcode update). Working fine so far. Rolling Pool Reboot is a helpful feature.
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
@bleader I installed it on a bunch of busy hosts. All are fine, but none used PCI passthrough. The Rolling Pool Reboot in XO was very helpful.
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RE: Xen 4.17 on XCP-ng 8.3!
@stormi Thanks! 4.17 Installed and running on a NUC10. Things seem to be working, but it's just a test... And for everyone who will ask... No, Windows Hyper-V server does not work (as expected).
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RE: XCP-ng 8.3 beta 🚀
@stormi New update version
edk2-20220801-1.7.3.xcpng8.3.x86_64
fixed my FreeBSD UEFI boot problem (stuck on boot countdown). XCP reboot NOT required after install. Windows 10 and Ubuntu boot correctly also (but did before too). I did not test secure boot or bitlocker. -
RE: Updates announcements and testing
@gduperrey XO (current source) rolling pool update did its job.
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
@gduperrey Installed on several old and new Intel machines. Working as expected.
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
@gduperrey So far, so good with normal operations.... I'm not affected by the issues but updated everything anyway (15 hosts). Intel Xeon, E5, Core 7th/10th/11th, AMD Opteron, AMD Zen3...
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RE: Recommendations on heterogeneous pools
@stevewest15 I would build two homogeneous pools... A high performance production Gold pool and a second Old E5 pool for testing, development, and backup..... unless power and space are a concern then just dump the old E5 monsters since one Gold machine is faster than ALL the old E5 machines combined.
You can warm/cold migrate VMs between pools. If you have a large external dataset then the VM could directly mount NFS storage and use that from any pool/host. That external storage would not be managed by XO (ie. no backups).
While they would be two different pools they can still share backend storage and networks for both SR and NFS storage. You can separate out VMs using VLANs.
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RE: Delta backups: Restore issue
@MrNaz It merges the past delta backup into the past full backup. Then it does a delta backup..... then you repeat.... Since you only keep one copy it just keeps merging the delta into the full backup. The delta backup depends on the old full backup existing and being correct.
When it does a "full backup", it does a full backup of the data not just a delta (the changes). That way it does not merge the new full backup into the old full backup (or depend upon any old backups). Doing a full backup is a good checkpoint in case the old data (full or deltas) is corrupted.
So having the retention set to 1 basically means you only have the most current backup saved. With backups every 12 hours you might want to set the retention to 20 so you have about 10 days of backups and every 5 days (10 backups) it will do a full backup. Or set it higher if you have more backup space.
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RE: Intel X550T 2.5G Not Working
@livegrenier That is correct. Intel officially does not officially support 2.5/5G on the x550 cards.
You can manually add the 2.5/5G advertisement, but it may not work correctly as the card does not fully support the standard.
Intel Readme for the driver with ethtool example.
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RE: Drivers for recent homelab NICs in XCP-ng 8.2
@stormi Thanks for supporting 8.2 LTS with some new drivers!
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RE: Updates announcements and testing
@bleader Did they get published to the right directory? I don't see anything in testing (stuff is in incoming).
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RE: Xen 4.17 on XCP-ng 8.3!
@stormi Great! Thanks.
Will Xen 4.17 become the standard version for 8.3 or is this a beta on top of 8.3 that will be part of the next XCP-ng version? Is Citrix supporting 4.17 as their next release or is this XCP-ng going out on their own?
I see there are several features from newer Xen that XCP-ng has already implemented in 4.13 on 8.3 but defiantly many more improvements with 4.17.