The first article in this XenServer 7 Series covered how to install/upgrade a single XenServer host. Most XenServer installs are likely to be in a pool of many XenServer hosts. This article will cover...
In earlier articles, XenServer 6.5 configuration and usage was discussed. In May 2016, Citrix released the new version of the XenServer platform. Plenty has remained the same but there are also some useful new...
Up to this point all of the management of the XenServer host has been accomplished via a remote SSH connection. This is arguably the most straight forward approach, but it doesn’t always scale well...
Moving forward with a bit of a value add article and still tying into the previous article about guest creation in XenServer, this article will approach the concept of Physical to Virtual (P2V) migration...
Continuing to move forward with the XenServer series, this article will approach the creation of the actual guests themselves (often called virtual machines). Update: In May 2016, Citrix released the new version of the...
In the fourth article of this XenServer series, storage solutions will be discussed. Much like networking, storage solutions in XenServer are often difficult to grasp at first. Before beginning any configuration, the new terminology...
In the third part of this series, the configuration of networking in XenServer will be discussed. Networking in XenServer is often a little difficult to grasp at first but is actually quite simple. The...
Patching a XenServer install is a crucial task to ensure security updates are applied to vulnerable XenServer installs. While in theory the hypervisor is secure from the virtual machines it supports, there are still...
As computing devices quickly surpass the requirements of operating systems, it has increasingly become more efficient for organizations to invest/migrate to virtualized systems. Operating system virtualization technologies aren’t anything new but over the last...
