Do you have any SR using a VM? (like an ISO SR in a NFS share inside a VM). This is freezing NFS and makes host taking half an hour to restart. Logs should tell you why the RPU failed if it failed

Hi, I'm pretty sure this is planned to be addressed in XO6. Dan

Confirmed by trying to install a Windows Server 2025 with UEFI and it did not boot the CD from the ISO SR (SMB share). Started over to be able to grab screen shots of the process for documentation, Debian 12 from the latest ISO worked just fine in BIOS mode. Overall, pretty pleased at where XO Lite is going, it's complete enough to get started, easier if you deploy XOA (as it has always been), but you can do everything in a semi GUI/Text based workflow now which opens this up to more users. And once some form of XO is running, it's all back to the same as it has been which is certainly one of the easiest systems to get up and running.

@Greg_E Not sure what or why, but fresh install of everything in my lab has allowed a successful "standard" backup, I'll get into the other flavors when I have a chance as I build the lab back out. [image: 1745247353511-stuckbackup4.png]

Warm migration is probably the safest bet in all circumstances because there's no CPU compatibility issues

@olivierlambert I was looking for a way to mark this solved, can't find it. I haven't moved things, but after migrating my big lab to my mini-lab, I'm confident that the warm migration is the way to go. It was fast and seamless as long as you have the right network adapters set up. I had to fool with one of my networks to make a VM function, but that was certainly something I overlooked while setting up the mini-lab. A little testing before moving the VMs should make this go easily if using the old servers is the option for this project.

@olivierlambert Thanks. I've been doing some digging this morning and what I was thinking of testing isn't going to work. It's interesting reading but not going to help me.

@olivierlambert Which one, powershell or WAC. They are kind of one in the same when you look at how WAC makes the calls to do the work, there's a button to reveal the powershell behind the button clicks so you might be able to get both at once. But WAC draws nice graphs and gives us a GUI to get the work done. Yes I know, real Admins don't use GUI. Whatever, AI will eat our jobs anyway, just trying to stick it out another 9 years at this point. When I get time, I'll still probably take a swing at this task for WAC, because to me this would be valuable. Big learning curve though. Now if MS would finally add Group Policy to WAC and fix some of the DHCP and DNS features that are still in preview...

@TS79 I had not seen that adapter, finding a main board that supports bifurcation is probably easier than a card that bifurcates. I'll have to look at some of the devices I have and see if this is supported.

@olivierlambert Thank you, that's what I thought and why I was willing to buy the lower end CPU in order to get the project through. At the time going for the larger Gold would have doubled the cost of each server.

I've been spending some time on it for the last few nights, and my skills are improving little by little. I think Ubuntu desktop was the closest I got to functional, there is a custom image for the Rpi3b+ that I found and it was one of the attempts that got to trying to start the XO-server service and failed. I was never able to get the xo-server to start manually either and the log files didn't give me anything I understood. One of the versions that worked the least was CentOS 7 for RPi, node.js is not available for it in the normal repos. I have more experience with CentOS from a few years ago and more comfortable with it, may have to look into compiling all the dependencies from source to see if I can make it work. I think an RPi 4b with 2gb or 4gb of RAM might be a better choice, but I have the 3b+.