Installed and working on my lab test machine, HP ProLiant DL165 G7 with AMD Opteron 6136 CPU and 32 GB of RAM.

@dthenot said in XOSTOR hyperconvergence preview:

@JeffBerntsen That's why I meant, the way to install written in the first post still work in 8.3, the script still work as expected also, it basically only create the VG/LV needed on hosts before you create the SR.

Got it. Thanks!

@dthenot said in XOSTOR hyperconvergence preview:

@gb.123 Hello,
The instruction in the first post are still the way to go

I'm curious about that as well but the first post says that the installation script is only compatible with 8.2 and doesn't mention 8.3. Is that still the case or is the installation script now compatible with 8.3 as well? If not, is there an installation script that is compatible with 8.3?

I know that using XO is the recommended method for installation but I'm interested in an installation script as I would like to try to integrate XOSTOR installation into an XCP-ng installation script I already have which runs via PXE boot.

@bishoptf Something else to consider is the quality of support you get for what you pay. It's possible, not always possible, but possible, even likely, that you can download and use XCP-ng for free, build XO from source, giving you that for free, and still get better support here in the forums than the paid support you get from VMware (or from Citrix for XenServer for that matter).

@stormi @olivierlambert I did see it! Contratulations and a huge thank you for the new LTS release!

@stormi I just used them to upgrade the 8.2.1 systems in my test pool. All seems fine so far.

Installed and seems to be running fine so far on my test systems.

@TeddyAstie Do you know if these can be set in XO or are they only via command line at this point? I'm curious and also curious as to how well supported because I'm looking at a possible migration from XS 7.1.2 to XCP-ng 8.3 where there are several 32-bit PV machines.

Installed on my test server, not running XOSTOR, everything seems to be working fine so far.

It's installed and seems to be working well in my test pool so far, not using XOSTOR.

@techknowbabble said in GRUB waits for confirmation:

What did finally work was re-installing with the 'no serial' option and everything seems to be working as expected now. I only have a handful of XCP-NG installations under my belt but I wonder if this is a known bug or if anyone else has had a similar experience.

It's not something I've ever seen before and I've done quite a few installations but I can think of some possibilities as to why something like that might fix the problem. My best guess is that there's something built into, connected to, or otherwise in your system that looks like a serial port (maybe even a real serial port) that spits out a character or two into the system at boot time, confusing GRUB and stopping the normal boot process. The bad KVM I mentioned before was doing something like that, throwing a bogus keypress into the system at boot time.

@techknowbabble
All right, that's weird. Do you have any USB devices plugged into that host other than the keyboard or mouse and, if so, what are they? If you do, it might be possible that something reports itself as a type of HID connection and maybe the BIOS/UEFI in your system or GRUB is mistaking it for a keyboard. I know some UPS units could do that (though I've never seen it myself).

@techknowbabble said in GRUB waits for confirmation:

I have tried fresh installs of 8.2.1 and 8.3 and it will boot but not until I select an option from the GRUB menu. I am using UEFI without secure boot. There is an asterisk next to the 'XCP-NG" option which I believe confirms it is the default option, but GRUB will not start it until I manually select it.

Is your system connected to any sort of KVM switch? I had a weird problem where sometimes systems connected to a particular KVM switch would do this if they were rebooted when they weren't the system the KVM was set to view. It would never happen if they were rebooted while being viewed by the KVM, only if they weren't and not always then. The symptom you're describing sounds exactly the same as what happened to me.

Installed and seems to be working well on my test systems.

@gduperrey, I suspected that was the case after seeing that message but wanted to make sure. Thanks!

@stormi said in XCP-ng 8.2 updates announcements and testing:

@JeffBerntsen Do you have XOSTOR on the pool?

Not yet, but was planning to add it to this test pool so thought I should downgrade beforehand. Does that particular patch only apply to systems with XOSTOR already installed?

@gduperrey, that doesn't seem to work for me. I receive an error from yum:

No Match for available package: http-nbd-transfer-1.3.0-1.xcpng8.2.x86_64
Nothing to do

Seems to be working well on my test servers.

This seems to be working well for me too.

@Danp You're right, I missed the question mark on it when I tried it before. With the question mark, it works. Thank you for your help.