UPDATE: This method works with Latest Feature Pack Release 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 [...]
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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 & [...]
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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 [...]
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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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In this post I am going to share my experience with Xenserver. I have implemented Xenserver for Virtualization. I feel this is better than community version of VMware Server & equipped with more features. Features. Xencenter to manage multiple xenservers. VLAN. Using pool resource you get auto shift of VM in case of one of [...]
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While using Virtualbox, one thing that I have found is that the size of the VM (a file with .VDI extension) expands over time. If you have selected the “Dynamically Expanding Storage” option when first creating the VM, you will find that the file size expands whenever you install new applications in the VM. That [...]
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). [...]
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