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Install puppet to the XenServer

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Aug 072013
 
  1. In file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo in section [base] set enabled=1
    2. sed -i 's/enabled=0/enabled=1/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
  2. For XenServer 6.2, 6.5 in file /etc/yum.repos.d/Citrix.repo in section [citrix] set enabled=0
    3. sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/Citrix.repo
  3.  rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$(uname -i)/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
 cd /tmp
 wget https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/5/products/$(uname -i)/puppetlabs-release-5-10.noarch.rpm
 rpm -Uvh puppetlabs-release-5-10.noarch.rpm
 yum install puppet

    set up /etc/puppet/puppet.conf, after that:

     chkconfig puppet on
 /etc/init.d/puppet start

I Also recommend using a xs_patcher to make XenServer up to date.

XenServer with software RAID1 upgrade (6.1 to 6.2)

 VM, XenServer  5 Responses »
Aug 072013
 

Warning: all operations are carried out only with the first two RAID partitions, the third partition is not changed

Due to the fact that the standard update is a XenServer installation of the new XenServer with virtual machines preservation, with the loss of all the changes that were made manually on the server (installed software, changing / adding settings through the console, etc.), the update is the new XenServer installation and connection of the old virtual machines.

Based on: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX120962

  1. Backup all VM, manually: 
    xe vm-export vm=vm_name filename=backup_fiule_name compress=true
...
xe pool-dump-database file-name=dump_name.dump

    or with XENBack

  2. VM metadata export 
    xe vm-export metadata=true --multiple filename=VMEXPORT

    Warning: store all files VMEXPORT… to another computer/data store/etc

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XenServer with software RAID1 installation (6.1, 6.2, 6.5)

 VM, XenServer  94 Responses »
Dec 292012
 

Compiled from: CodeAddict’s Blog and http://pastebin.com/buBHcfxU

First: Install XenServer on first disk (/dev/sda) and NOT configure any local storage.
/dev/sda should contain three partitions, verify this with:

sgdisk -p /dev/sda

In some cases XenServer doesn’t create third partition, i.e. result of this command has only two partitions and looks like:

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 8388641 4.0 GiB 0700
2 8390656 16777249 4.0 GiB 0700

In this case you need to create third partition manually:

sgdisk --new=3:16779264:DISK_SIZE-34 /dev/sda
sgdisk --typecode=3:fd00

The second partition is used for backups during a XenServer upgrade. This partition won’t used in my XenServer upgrade method.
Now we are going to use /dev/sdb as the mirror disk. First clear the partition table.

sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sdb

and install a GPT table on it

sgdisk --mbrtogpt --clear /dev/sdb

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Create virtual machine in XenServer from command line

 Linux, VM, XenServer  3 Responses »
Sep 232012
 

I need to create virtual machine on XenServer (6.2.0) but I have access to console/SSH only

Solution:

  1. Virtual machine based on template. For select template execute: 
    xe template-list
  2. After selecting template, create VM: 
    xe vm-install template="Debian Wheezy 7.0 (32-bit)" new-name-label="newVM"

    so VM based on Debian Wheezy 7.0 (32-bit) template, VM name is newVM
    Last command execution produced UUID for created VM

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XenServer и ошибка SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_109

 VM, XenServer  1 Response »
Aug 242012
 

В XenServer (5.0, 5.5, 6.0) при постоянном изготовлении снепшотов системы (обычно используется для бекапов) через определенное время эти снепшоты делатся отказывались, возвращая ошибку:

Error code: SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_109
Error parameters: , The snapshot chain is too long

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XenServer VM auto start

 VM  No Responses »
Jan 032012
 

осле обновления до XenServer 6.0 обнаружилось, что в настройках виртуальных машин отсутствует возможность задать способ запуска – автоматически или вручную. Для решения этой проблемы необходимо:

1. Включить возможность автостарта для пула:

xe pool-param-set uuid=... other-config:auto_poweron=true

2. Для каждой виртуальной машины, для которой нужен автозапуск:

xe vm-param-set uuid=... other-config:auto_poweron=true

Второй пункт естественно нужно выполнять для каждой новой виртуальной машины

PS: копия на http://wwalery.blogspot.com/

Установка VMWare tools на Linux

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Jul 142011
 

Опробовано на Debian 6.0, для дистрибутивов, основанных на RedHat заменить apt-get на yum, OpenSUSE – zypper

В vShpere client выбрать в меню для данной виртуальной машины Guest->Install/Upgrade VMWare Tools

В консоли linux выполнить:
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