Hi,

No, at least not yet, due to the lack of demand for that.

Packer is an option (better than Ansible in this case).

Otherwise, use xo CLI to do that.

Try the "+ New" menu at the bottom on the left side menu, you can add Storage there.

I had similar problems in 8. Even though I had static leases set in DHCP, oftentimes services come up before the IP address has been obtained. The physical console and SSH worked, but not XOA nor XCP center.

Set a static IP address and reboot.

If that does not work, repeat the installation and set a static IP at install.
Make sure your IP address has not changed and look at the lease time. Is it only leased out for a few minutes?

Here is where we discussed it for version 8:
Broken Host Consoles in fresh xcp-ng 8 installation. VM consoles work.

You can, but as I said, in this case, you'll need to move the storage with it. Unlike with a shared storage, where only the RAM is migrated between 2 hosts.

So RAM only migration is really faster than storage motion, especially true if the VM is using a large disk.

So you can't create a backup with XOA Free. This edition is meant for all usual administrative tasks, like XCP-ng Center if you like.

If you want backup features, 2 choices:

going for XOA Starter, Enterprise or Premium depending on your backup needs. See each edition features here: https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/featuresmatrix (each edition comes with pro support, updater and remote SSH access if needed) install XO from the sources on a system you like, following our guide: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/from_the_sources.html

What do you mean?

You need to use LDAP plugin to enable user login with XO.

Please refer to our official documentation: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/ldap.html