@ruskofd Awesome, thank you!

@gduperrey Got it, thank you for your assistance, this is super helpful.

@gduperrey We went 8.2 because we wanted to test XOSTOR. It sounds like our options are limited. Windows 10 mainstream support goes EOL in October which is what's driving this for us.

@olivierlambert Fabulous! This is great news!

@olivierlambert Perfect, I'll take a look.

Will the packer plugin be updated to use XO?

@olivierlambert Hey there!

Basically I'm trying to recreate an ansible workflow I have that provisions a new VM from a template. And then correctly sets tags and notes etc according to who ran the job, date, OS details etc.

You're right that it's probably better to use XO, just the packer plugin I was using seemed to only target a single node so that's why I was going that way.

I'm a bit unclear on when to use nodes in a pool and when to use XO.

I've been using ddelnano's excellent module to build templates using Packer and I'm nearly at a useful point. But the one thing that's missing, and I can't find an answer to, is how to enable VTPM so I can build Windows 11 templates.

Is there a way to do this in the plugin? How are other people automating the build of their Windows 11 templates right now?

Thanks.

In the xe command line docs for xenserver I can see that you can use the xe command line to set, for example, the description field for a vm like so.

xe vm-param-set uuid=<vm_uuid>other-config:description="<your_notes_here>"

If I do :

xe vm-param-list uuid=<vm_uuid>

I can see where xo:resource_set is listed in other-config but it's unclear to me how to set that property due to the extra : contained in it?

Also, if there's a way to set the following.

vm notes
vm tags

Thanks.

@DustinB Our smallest VXrail is 6 nodes and 31tb and there's a few in between up to our largest which is 16 nodes 400tb.

All of our other Vmware clusters are Dell Blades which use FC.

The goal would be to use the existing VXrail hardware without having to purchase new FC cards, storage etc.

We're not adverse to using 8.2, I just mentioned it to demonstrate I've at least done some reading on the subject!

To my knowledge, none of our existing VMs are >2tb.

We're in the middle of considering having a look at XCP-NG+XOSTOR with a view to replacing VMware running oue Dell VXrail platforms.

Has anyone done this? What problems did you encounter?

Should we be looking at NFS/FC SRs instead?

I'm aware XOSTOR doesn't currently support 8.3 and that there's still a 2tb limit but I'm curious what peoples experiences are of doing this.

Thanks.

@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.