@chon It's Jun 3, 2023. After three years, I'm going to finally do the migration to a new Dell server hardware. I'll update this thread for those who are interested. thanks.

@olivierlambert I watched this video by Tom @ Lawrence Systems. Now I understand everything.

https://youtu.be/1tJZAc-A4kU

I hope this video helps everyone else confused about backup.

@borzel Indeed, the command

"xe vm-cd-eject --multiple" worked! All VMs now correctly auto boot on reboot/startup!

@Danp they are stored in a FreeNAS physical server connected to another physical hardware with xcp-ng. The link via iScsi.

Thanks. I guessed that I needed to put the full path on FreeNAS as there is not masking when expose as NSF by FreeNAS. So I put the full path as "/mnt/MybooksVolume/VM_ISOs" and that seems to have fixed the problem.

I second this request.

Hi,

I'm trying to install some patches for xcp-ng but they all failed to install. I even tried to do it from the shell by using

yum clean all

From running yum update, I get this:

[21:42 xenserver-tiger ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
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--> Running transaction check
---> Package gmp-devel.x86_64 1:6.0.0-15.el7 will be installed
---> Package net-snmp-libs.x86_64 1:5.7.2-52.1.xcpng8.3 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit) for package: nut-2.8.0-2.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: nut-2.8.0-2.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
           Requires: libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit)
           Removing: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-52.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64 (@xcp-ng-updates)
               libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit)
           Updated By: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.9.3-8.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64 (xcp-ng-updates)
              ~libnetsnmp.so.40()(64bit)
           Available: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-33.el7_5.2.x86_64 (xcp-ng-base)
               libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit)
           Available: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-51.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64 (xcp-ng-base)
               libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit)
           Available: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-51.2.xcpng8.3.x86_64 (xcp-ng-base)
               libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit)
           Available: 1:net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-51.3.xcpng8.3.x86_64 (xcp-ng-base)
               libnetsnmp.so.31()(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

From Xen-Orchestra, I get this:

1(Command '['yum', 'update', '--disablerepo=*', '--enablerepo=xcp-ng-base,xcp-ng-updates', '-y']' failed with code: 1, stdout: 'Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package bind-libs-lite.x86_64 32:9.9.4-61.el7_5.1 will be updated ---> Package bind-libs-lite.x86_64 32:9.9.4-63.1.xcpng8.3 will be an update ---> Package bind-license.noarch 32:9.9.4-61.el7_5.1 will be updated ---> Package bind-license.noarch 32:9.9.4-63.1.xcpng8.3 will be an update ---> Package blktap.x86_64 0:3.55.5-6.1.xcpng8.3 will be updated ---> Package blktap.x86_64 0:3.55.5-6.3.xcpng8.3 will be an update ---> Package broadcom-bnxt-en.x86_64 0:1.10.3_232.0.155.5-1.xcpng8.3 will be updated ---> Package broadcom-bn

I thought of just downloading the ISO for xcp-ng 8.3 to apply this update and see if it fixes what could be a repo problem.

I hope you guy can help me figure this out.

@dinhngtu You are correct - it is a domain controller running on Windows Server 2022.

The XenOchestra commit is at 1c01f

Should I try to reinstall the Xen Tools? I suspect that it is going to be a futile attempt though.

--Update:
I went ahead and removed XenTools. Reboots. Reinstalled XenTools. But this time, I selected the second options -- to allow XenTools I/O Tools to automatically update when the "Manage Citrix PV drivers via Windows Update" is turned off (which it is)....Windows Server didn't prompt for a reboot. When I checked XenOrchestra, boom!, the Memory usage was there!!

That second option did the trick.

I have an issue where there is no mem stats showing for my Windows server 2022. I don't know if it's isolated with this or all windows workstation or server clients.

I have installed Xen Tools 9.4.1. Yet, it is not displaying the memory stats.

Then, I also tried by uninstalling Xen Tools 9.4.1 and used Manage Citrix PV drivers via Windows Update. But that also didn't work.

Lastly, I updated Xen Orchestra to the latest build (i.e. all commits) as of this post date, that didn't work either.

Thanks for your help & insights.

@Andrew So I need to run xcp-ng 8.3 in order to get vTPM.

For those still running xcp ng v8.2.1 in production, would you recommend upgrading production to 8.3beta1? From the xcp-ng post, it seems to be very solid with some outstanding issues?

Also, xenserver is also available. Any thoughts on interoperability of Xenserver and xcp-ng and XO from sources?

I'm sure that by now, we should have Windows 11 vTPM support (& guest tools) on xcp-ng and Xen Ochestra, right? The last thread I found about this topic was from 2021.

I have experienced a catastrophic disaster while I tried to upgrade my rack servers. At first it worked very well by using the migration of VMs to the new server then assigning the new server as the master. Then, I decided that it was time to change the DHCP assigned address to take the place of the static ip , replacing the old server. Then all hell broke loose.

the xsconsole no longer saw the pms, yet the vms were still running!

decided to reboot the server to see if it's xsconsole not reading something and a reboot would solved it.

That's when I realized that all my metadata were gone! the vms were gone. the storage repositories were gone.

Yet, I know that the iSCSI repository, which stores all the vms, was still intact by looking at the mount of free vs. total space as presented in TrueNAS Core.

After many tries, I was able to reattach the iSCSI repository to the new server running, of course, xcp-ng. But there were no VMs presented in presented in a new instance of Xen Orchestra (CE). I thought that if there's a way to restore the meta-data for XO config and XO backup, I would be able to restore everything. The data has been downloaded off TrueNAS and into my MacBook Pro. It seems that these strategies aren't working.

I googled around to find out best practice or solutions to no avail.

I hope that you can help me please! These VMs are business critical. If someone can help me, the business won't be burning come Monday morning.

@chon It's Jun 3, 2023. After three years, I'm going to finally do the migration to a new Dell server hardware. I'll update this thread for those who are interested. thanks.

Hi there,

I am checking to see how loaded my servers are. When go to Dashboard >> Statistics and point to show me the "load", I'm shown mostly yellow with rare patches of green blocks.

When I look at the hosts themselves at Home >> Hosts >> Stats, the graphical CPU visualization, shows the CPUs are all running under 12% usage.

I've created a video to show you.

@olivierlambert Thanks. I understand Dom0 and VM0 principles. I didn't know that exited in
xsconsole, resulting terminal being a VM.