Posts made by dartec

@olivierlambert Thank you.
Now I think I see my problem .... my Xen Orchestra instance is a VM on that host ...
I assume it would be best to have the XO instance on another machine?

@dartec Hi All. I am still trying to work this out.
Where should I back up the metadata to? My backup SR is on a NFS share.
I don't understand how I can restore the metadata from a backup without adding the SR.
Am I missing something here?
I assume that the best way to restore the metadata via xsconsole on the new machine?

TIA

@olivierlambert Okay ... But to restore your metadata backup, surely you need to connect to a SR (where the backup is stored) or am I misunderstanding. I have never done this type of restore before.
How would you restore the backup? From the command line or XCP-ng Centre?

@olivierlambert Thank you for this. So on the new host, I assume that I would need to set up all the SR's before restoring the metadata?

From your reply this is how I understand it.

1. Build new host (as a new installation)
2. Backup metadata on old host and then shut it down.
3. Configure SR's on new host (the same as they were on the old host).
4. Restore metatdata backup on new host.
5. I should be good to go ..

Have I go the steps right?

Hi All,

I am new to XCP-ng.
I initially installed XCP-ng onto a machine with an AMD X470 motherbard and 250GB SSD.
I have some storage connected by SR via NFS mounts.
I want to upgrade the host to an AMD 570 motherboard, a different CPU and a 500GB NVME (to replace the SSD).
What is the preferred way to do this?

Could I just take the SSD and transplant it across to the new machine and then (somehow?) replace the SSD with the NVME?
Please that note my setup is just 1 host (not clustered).

Thanks in advance.