Re: [Xen-API] Xen-api/Debian 7 - conversion and xs-tools

[Andrew Eross <eross@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had the exact opposite experience myself with XenServer being a rock, but admitted most of our hardware is a few years ago, and all HP kit, e.g. HP DL380/360 G6s.

Everything is running on XS and the last reboot for all of them was 108 days ago when our facility had a power grid blip, before that was over a year for many.

My one experience in having any issues with XS (or XCP) has only been when I've made customizations to the dom0, e.g. adding backup cron tasks, nagios monitoring, etc, where I've done things that hurt IO performance or used up too much memory on the dom0, but that'd be my own fault there really. I found in particular using NFS to do big file backups on the dom0 to be a risky proposition for one reason or another (I switched to just FTP and never an issue since).

XenConvert provides p2v for Windows boxes, e.g. http://www.technofocus.in/using-xenconvert-to-convert-a-physical-machine-to-virtual-machine/

However, for Linux I usually just use tar =)

I hear, e.g. here: http://helpdeskgeek.com/virtualization/convert-a-physical-server-to-xen-virtual-server-p2v/ that you can do p2v for Linux using the XenServer CD, but I've never actually tried it.

Cheers,

Andrew

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Paul Pridt <p.pridt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

-> Why Debian 7 and not CentOS?
-> Debian 7 is fairly untested.

I have some 50 servers at my customers, most of them Ubuntu or Debian. Only those running Citrix Xenservers regularly cause numerous problems especially with newer hardware. They have to be rebooted at least once a week. I suspect these problems are related to CentOS5 and the Citrix xcp toolstack. I have to find an alternative.
My personal experience (more than 10 years with Linux) is that Debian is far more tested than any other operating system ...
Paul

Am 16.05.2013 22:56, schrieb Steven Crothers:

Why Debian 7 and not CentOS?

Debian 7 is fairly untested.

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On May 16, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Paul Pridt<p.pridt@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Hi,
I am trying to implement xcp-xapi on Debian 7.
Linux vms run perfectly. With Windows, however, I have numerious problems:
- no console-communication in Xencenter or OpenXenManager (no input accepted) after basic installation of Windows
- vms with xs-tools installed abend immediately (all versions tried: 5.9.0, 6.0, 6.1, exported from citrix xenserver)
I did not find any documentation on how to do p2v coversion.
Thank you for any help
Paul

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