Hi, I am Karlis, I manage small server/network infrastructure, our VMs are hosted on Xenserver. Some time ago we needed to redesign management and backup system for our VMs and we found XO. Now we are in process to upgrade our hosts to XCP-NG.

ISO works, installed already on 2 Ubuntu 22.04 VMs

@waveguide said in What are recommended ways to grant XCP-ng and XO access to the internet?:

Do you poke holes in your firewall so the Management network can resolve DNS requests and reach the IP addresses

Outgoing communication from management and xcp-ng hosts to Internet is not very dangerous, because hosts are the initiators. Generally I don't block it. You can monitor these connections or restrict to certain addresses.

@olivierlambert Done

Right now one of my CR jobs are stuck, symptoms are the same as with XO from sources.
XOA 5.43.2 (xo-server and xo-web 5.56.2)
Hosts where VM is running and where it is replicated to, both XenServer 7.0
Backup log:

{
  "data": {
    "mode": "delta",
    "reportWhen": "failure"
  },
  "id": "1582750800014",
  "jobId": "b5c85bb9-6ba7-4665-af60-f86a8a21503d",
  "jobName": "web1",
  "message": "backup",
  "scheduleId": "6204a834-1145-4278-9170-63a9fc9d5b2b",
  "start": 1582750800014,
  "status": "pending",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "data": {
        "type": "VM",
        "id": "04430f5e-f0db-72b6-2b73-cc49433a2e14"
      },
      "id": "1582750800016",
      "message": "Starting backup of web1. (b5c85bb9-6ba7-4665-af60-f86a8a21503d)",
      "start": 1582750800016,
      "status": "pending",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "id": "1582750800018",
          "message": "snapshot",
          "start": 1582750800018,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1582750808307,
          "result": "6e6c19e2-104c-1dcf-a355-563348d5a11f"
        },
        {
          "id": "1582750808314",
          "message": "add metadata to snapshot",
          "start": 1582750808314,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1582750808325
        },
        {
          "id": "1582750808517",
          "message": "waiting for uptodate snapshot record",
          "start": 1582750808517,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1582750808729
        },
        {
          "id": "1582750808735",
          "message": "start snapshot export",
          "start": 1582750808735,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1582750808735
        },
        {
          "data": {
            "id": "4a7d1f0f-4bb6-ff77-58df-67dde7fa98a0",
            "isFull": false,
            "type": "SR"
          },
          "id": "1582750808736",
          "message": "export",
          "start": 1582750808736,
          "status": "pending",
          "tasks": [
            {
              "id": "1582750808751",
              "message": "transfer",
              "start": 1582750808751,
              "status": "pending"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Perhaps there is something with my environment but then why it is working with older XO versions.

@tts said in Backup jobs run twice after upgrade to 5.76.2:

Can we import the config from our XO from sources to XOA or should we setup everything from scratch?

Today I got XOA trial ready and imported config from XO-from-sources. Manually started CR jobs are working. Will test it with scheduled CR next couple of days.

If you need to restore one DC from VM backup, this can help
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/virtual-dc/restore-virtualized-domain-controller#restore-the-virtual-dc-with-a-vhd-file

@waveguide said in What are recommended ways to grant XCP-ng and XO access to the internet?:

Do you poke holes in your firewall so the Management network can resolve DNS requests and reach the IP addresses

Outgoing communication from management and xcp-ng hosts to Internet is not very dangerous, because hosts are the initiators. Generally I don't block it. You can monitor these connections or restrict to certain addresses.

I am using RSS reader, feed https://xcp-ng.org/forum/recent.rss
Not the most elegant three click solution to read new replies in watched topics, click on unread posts (open envelope icon), then on All topics button, it opens menu, there click on Watched topics.

@chaoticmaster I suggest to use xcp-ng tools
https://xcp-ng.org/docs/guests.html#citrix-tools-vs-xcp-ng-tools

ISO works, installed already on 2 Ubuntu 22.04 VMs

@planedrop To avoid confusion, XOA is paid product, ready to use virtual application. If you installed XO from sources, it's simply XO or XOCE (XO Community Edition). XO components versions you can see in About menu, both xo-server and xo-web. If you want to know how it corresponds to XOA version, see changelog https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

@geoffbland said in Xen Orchestra Application XOA Deployment Options/Best Practices.:

What exactly do you mean when you say "XCP-ng small web UI" ? I don't think I have heard of that before?

If you go to http://your.xcp-ng.host.ip you will receive web UI with some links to documentation and to management tools, including Xen Orchestra Virtual Appliance quick deploy wizard

XOA is only the version we (Vates) distribute, not the version from the sources

What is the correct name for the version from the sources then? Is that just called Xen Orchestra?

They are calling community version (from sources) XO and precompiled virtual appliance (paid version) XOA.

@julien-f said in CR tag ignored (kind of) in smart backup:

incomplete VMs should be ignored by smart mode

I believe, XO is using some other way to prevent backup loop.

Thanks again, now CR works as expected!
xo-server 5.64.0
xo-web 5.66.0

@julien-f Thanks!