Archive for the ‘Virtualization’ Category

OpenXenManager -Xencenter alternative

This is probably almost every Linux Admin using Citrix Xenserver will be looking for. A way to manage xenservers from Linux machine. Citrix XenCenter is available only for windows machines. Although citrix is using Xen & Linux, citrix forgot to build client for Linux machines. If you are using Linux machine for routine work, and [...]

Upgrading Citrix XenServer 5.5 to 5.6

You can use xenserver 5.6 media for upgradation. While booting from installation media you’ll find following option upgrade xenserver-5.5 perform clean installation Here you can choose upgrade xenserver-5.5 Before upgrading pl ensure to take backup of all VMs & host. If there error during installation you may loose running VMs. Following examples will be helpful [...]

Migrate Win XP On Xenserver -P2V

I have Antivirus server running on Windows XP. Rather using nt-backup / xenconvert, here we choose diff approach to migrate winxp. We are using Linux to copy whole windows partition from physical machine to VM. Followings are the steps we performed for P2V migration. 1) Install winxp on VM. 2) Boot both physical machine & [...]

Migrate Win 2003 On Xenserver -P2V

To migrate physical server on Xenserver you may use Xenconvert During migration, after successfully converting OS, Win 2003 was not able to boot on Xenserver. In other words you may not succeed P2V using Xenconvert, whereas on Citrix forum few have successfully migrated. So what is the best alternative for migration? Its inbuilt windows utility [...]

Migrate Linux On Xenserver -P2V

There are many Physical servers running in almost every organization. With the acceptance of virtualization, it become necessary to migrate existing server to VM, to save power & to efficiently utilize computing resources. If you have ever installed Xenserver, you must have noticed following option during installation. Convert an existing OS on this machine to [...]

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