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Playing with Counters (XenServer) – PART 1

febrero 28th, 2013 | Posted by cristiansan in CLI | Monitoring | Performance | XenServer - (0 Comments)

Not the first time that asked me about getting advanced performance metrics of XenServer servers. XenCenter data are indicative, but not enough for those who want to obtain complete metrics of our environments.

EdgeSight does not solve our problem, since it has no possibility (at least for now) to monitor our XenServer host. So we have to go to third party tools, such as Open-Source solutions (Nagios, Zabbix, etc) and/or proprietary tools like PHDMonitor or Goliath, among others.

But there is a way manually …

Lest we lose ourselves in the journey to the underworld CLI, here’s a short guide to help. (más…)

File System on Control Domain Full

febrero 27th, 2013 | Posted by cristiansan in CLI | TroubleShooting | XenServer - (0 Comments)

In System alerts you can see:

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#XenServer: USB as SR

enero 23rd, 2013 | Posted by cristiansan in CLI | XenServer - (0 Comments)

Like some IT Professionals I have my own lab in my home. This servers are used in sometimes for education and i need to re-install my lab sometimes.

After clases, is time to re-install all the lab. Host hypervisor (if i needed install it), and all components to my Citrix Lab and other services.

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set cpu-afinity on XenServer 6

enero 17th, 2013 | Posted by cristiansan in CLI | Performance | TroubleShooting | XenServer - (0 Comments)

When you install a VM on XenServer, the cpu affinity is set to «any cpu» by default.
How to change this setting and do you set the cpu affinity?

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BitDefender – Security for Virtualized Enviroments Overview

enero 15th, 2013 | Posted by cristiansan in Antivirus | Appliance | BitDifender | XenServer - (1 Comments)

In the Citrix CTXDOM geekspeak of this year, showed us his new Bitdefender antivirus solution specific for virtualized environments: Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE).

As happened with backup environments (where Veeam and PHD Virtual Backup change the marked), Bitdefender comes to offer a real solution to our optimal antivirus virtual environments.

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XenServer: How to move machines between SR

julio 11th, 2012 | Posted by cristiansan in CLI | XenServer - (0 Comments)

XenServer provides, in addition, a «copy of VM» option that allows a Clone (in the same SR) or FullCopy (in same or another SR) for copy VMs. The procedure is simple. (más…)