Hello @someone2b,

Marc here, CMO of Vates. I wanted to provide some clarity on our new pricing structure and the reasoning behind these changes.

Here are a few key points that led to our decision:

1. In 2022, half of the support requests from Xen Orchestra customers were actually related to issues with the hypervisor layer, which aren't covered by standalone Xen Orchestra support.

2. We've seen an increase in requests for XCP-ng support from users who only seek help after encountering issues in their infrastructure.

3. XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra have become deeply integrated, making it increasingly challenging for our team to effectively support Xen Orchestra without also addressing the virtualization platform.

We’ve also redesigned our business model to be more equitable, particularly for smaller infrastructures. For those with 10 hosts or fewer, the new pricing is actually lower than the previous cost of purchasing XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra separately.

That being said, we didn't forgot as well all the remaining XenServer users out there and we are currently working on to have a secure and affordable path forward for them as well. If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our sales team at sales@vates.tech.

Marc

@tcorp8310 yes yum update should do the trick

@tcorp8310 Hey,

The VM creation is not implement in XOLite for the moment.

However, the "deploy XOA" button is implemented so you should see it available so maybe your XO Lite is not fully up to date?

@modir We don't have yet a features matrix for XO Lite specifically, but thanks for the suggestion, we will work on something like this.

As we mentioned in our last release, we are currently doing a small study about our users. This questionnaire, which will only take a few minutes, will allow us to build the future of our solutions more in line with your uses and needs.

If you didn't done it yet, now it's the time as the questionnaire will only be available for a few more days.

https://xenorchestra.typeform.com/to/Cr43RpMU

@s-pam Yes indeed, this link is currently broken because of the new support platform. Thanks for the feedback, our team will fix it as soon as possible.

@stormi Yep, I fixed my answer, sorry

@s-pam
Hello, I'm sorry about this issue.

open a support ticket directly from Xen Orchestra is temporarily broken because we migrated our support platform.

Please, open it directly from your account: https://help.vates.fr/kb/en-us/8/15

Regards,

@markhewitt1978

We want to involve the users community very early in the design of XO6 and have begun designing an initial questionnaire to submit to you to identify your expectations and current issues - We will later set up a tester program to continue to exchange throughout the process with users who are interested.

It's a bit early to share more details, but stay tuned on the December release for XO, we have things in the pipe.

@biggen What do you mean ala ESXI? For all advanced management purpose in VMware you need Vcenter, not even talking about the backup for which you need Veeam (or similar) in addition to Vcenter. Am I missing something in ESXI?

@mrchip Backup NG is now the standard backup section. We made a rework on all backup features a while ago and we kept legacy backup and backup New Generation (NG) during the transition period.

So, on old video you can have both, but the thing you see about backup NG should be valid for the current "backup" section of your appliance.

Xen Orchestra Lite is an ongoing project around XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra. it doesn't require you to host any virtual appliance and will allow you to do basic management of your host directly from the browser of your choice.

Pierre, the lead developer of the project wrote an extensive devblog on the project you can read here

This topic is dedicated to discussion ans questions around this project.

FOSDEM will take place this weekend, and this year, exceptionally, the event will be 100% online.
We are of course sad not to be able to share a beer with you directly on the spot, but it is also a very good opportunity for our non-European users to be able to exchange with us thanks to the chat that will be available during all the weekend (Mainly during the day in the CET timezone).

Our booth will be available on this link: https://stands.fosdem.org/stands/xcp-ng/
Our official blogpost announcement: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/02/04/fosdem-2021/

EDIT - last minute addition: we will also have the pleasure of having some folks of the Xen project present on our booth too to exchange with all of you! So if you have question on the Xen Project it's the perfect opportunity.

See you soon!

In the next few months Vates and XCP-ng team will attend (and sponsor) two different event

• Pass the salt - virtual conference is a French conference event about cyber security. It's free to attend for everyone and this year, Olivier will be one of the speaker on the following topic: Tackling security issues in virtualization

• Xen Developer & Design Summit is the yearly reunion of all the people involved in the Xen Project. Since we launched XCP-ng we are sponsoring this event and our developer teams are attending it. We will keep you in touch about the overall orientation of the Xen Project after this event.

Bobby, our new team member in the XCP-ng team explored the device emulation in Xen Hypervisor and wrote a Devblog about that topic and how we leveraged the device emulation hypercall interface of the Xen hypervisor in our implementation of UEFI Secure Boot for HVM guests.

Read the complete devblog here

Hi,

Thanks for picture update, I will fix it

Hello everyone,

As you (most certainly) all know, a lot of countries in the world are living in difficult times due to the pandemic of COVID-19.

We are sharing some news about how we are handling the situation here.

https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/how-we-handle-covid-19/

Stay safe!

We are very proud to announce that XCP-ng is joining the Xen Project hosted by the Linux Foundation!

Read our blogpost
Read the Xen Project blogpost

@markhewitt1978 We are currently working on a new version of XOSAN but that won't be based on DRBD.

It will likely be something completely new!

LINBIT and XCP-ng are partnering to bring DRBD compatibility to XCP-ng in 2020.

Learn more on our dedicated blogpost