@ruskofd Awesome, thank you!

@olivierlambert Yes. Using Cloudbase-init.

I'd like to use something like -

hostname: uk-xcp-{something}

Where {something} is a number that XO keeps track of per group so that for a new VM {something} is unique.

@olivierlambert Ah, good spot on the doc, thank you!

Regarding the 'name'.

As you say there are two different things. There's the 'name' field which the user fills out and the 'hostname'.

I would like to enforce the hostname. I have Windows VMs and I need to make sure there are no name space collisions when they're domain joined.

VRA and a few other VM self service portals allow you to create a policy specifying the hostname of any deployed VMs.

Hi there,

I'm looking for documentation on the self service feature of Xen Orchestra and my google-fu is failing me. I've been looking in particular at https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/ but I can't find "self service" mentioned in the column on the left?

I'm trying to figure out how the self service feature works, in particular, how I can enforce a naming scheme for the VMs provisioned from templates. Because the workloads I might use are Windows VMs, which are domain joined, I don't want users to have the ability to specify their own names.

I understand the cloud config uses {name}% which appends a number on to the end of the name. However, the tooltip that appears when you click the 'i' suggests that this just appends a number to the name the user gives the vm.

So if I wanted a standard naming scheme, for example -

<2 letter geographic tag>-<group name>-<number>

I want XO to manage the <number> and keep track of which numbers have been assigned already. So for example -

uk-test-1
uk-test-3
uk-test-9

Etc.

Is this possible as XO stands today? I'm currently using source built XO.

I'm trying to evaluate how much of our existing self service capability we have built out in VMware that I can replicate in XO.

Thanks.

@ruskofd Awesome, thank you!

Hey there,

I've recently started looking into xen orchestra+xcp-ng as a self service vm portal for users to provision their own Windows and Linux vms. One thing I'm missing though is a good primer on what's required to make those base templates and in the case of windows do an active directory domain join.

With VMware I'm used to making templates from code with packer, and then the vm cloned from the template is customised with some ansible scripts.

I'm having a bit of a hard time find some good end to end references on how to do this in xcp-ng. Any links with reading material or general advice from people who have already achieved this would be appreciated.

Thanks!