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    XenServer 7 has launched!

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    • DustinB3403
      DustinB3403 last edited by

      Worthy of it's own reply is this feature here.

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        Alex Sage last edited by

        I am upgrading right now.

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          Alex Sage last edited by Alex Sage

          100% Xen Orchestra compatible
          In fact, XenServer 7 is more compatible with Xen Orchestra, because the toolstack is more reliable than in 6.5. So you'll have:

          • less bugs in XAPI with JSON-RPC
          • full JSON-RPC support (faster XO!)
          • more securiry with XAPI isolation via control groups (cgroups)

          You'll be happy to have your XenServer tasks displaying properly the real progress in % during any long process (migrate, copy, etc.). This was broken (in JSON) in previous XenServer versions.

          https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-7/

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          • Danp
            Danp last edited by

            Did you migrate your VMs first? Let us know how it goes....

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            • DustinB3403
              DustinB3403 last edited by

              Are you able to perform the upgrade on live systems?

              Now I wanna go home and test!

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                Alex Sage @Danp last edited by

                @Danp No. Just my home lab, and I have a backup.

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                  Alex Sage @DustinB3403 last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 Yes, on my home lab.

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                  • DustinB3403
                    DustinB3403 last edited by

                    The root partition is now 18GB!

                    Damn!

                    Now I don't feel bad using that 32GB for my production system.

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                    • DustinB3403
                      DustinB3403 last edited by

                      Upgrade process

                      https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/upgrade-to-xenserver-7/

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                      • olivier
                        olivier last edited by olivier

                        Upgraded almost all my systems today 🙂

                        We released a new version of xo-server earlier (~12h ago) to enhance Dundee support.

                        Also tested XO VM continuous replication every minute on Dundee Beta 3 last week, worked like a charm during all the tests (5 days). XenServer 6.5 failed after 15 min 😄

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                        • BRRABill
                          BRRABill @DustinB3403 last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

                          The root partition is now 18GB!

                          Damn!

                          Now I don't feel bad using that 32GB for my production system.

                          And you thought I was crazy to do a 32GB USB stick!!

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                          • travisdh1
                            travisdh1 @DustinB3403 last edited by

                            @DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

                            The root partition is now 18GB!

                            Damn!

                            Now I don't feel bad using that 32GB for my production system.

                            Oh bother, will it even install on a 16GB stick? (The ones I currently have 6.5 running on.)

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                            • BRRABill
                              BRRABill last edited by

                              P.S. Very exciting!!!!

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                              • BRRABill
                                BRRABill @olivier last edited by

                                @olivier

                                When you say

                                "The condition needed to do that is to have your local SR (created during the install of previous XS version) to be empty. This way, the XenServer 7 install could use this space for re-partinioning the whole drive in a proper way."

                                Is that also true if the local SR is not on the boot device?

                                For example how many of us have XS booting off USB but the local SR on a separate array?

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                                • olivier
                                  olivier last edited by

                                  I'm not sure. I discovered a lot about the upgrade process just today. I'd love to have more input/doc from Citrix before the D-day, but you know, it's hard to be in the plans of a big corp 😛

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                                  • BRRABill
                                    BRRABill @olivier last edited by

                                    @olivier said

                                    I'm not sure. I discovered a lot about the upgrade process just today. I'd love to have more input/doc from Citrix before the D-day, but you know, it's hard to be in the plans of a big corp 😛

                                    I'm sure there will be a lot of testing here at ML.

                                    My biggest "hope" is that it will allow me to live migrate to my test server. That will make things so much easier for me. But, that's just being selfish. 🙂

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                                    • momurda
                                      momurda last edited by

                                      SMB support! About time. Only a couple weeks after i got 6.5sp1 installed on my 2 hosts. Burining to dvd now.

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                                        Alex Sage @momurda last edited by

                                        @momurda Your hosts have DVD drives? Are they from 2000? =P

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                                        • Deleted74295
                                          Deleted74295 Banned last edited by

                                          18GB?....

                                          Well, I guess I need to install onto a 32GB stick then.

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                                          • momurda
                                            momurda @Alex Sage last edited by

                                            @aaronstuder
                                            The dvd is for my test lab! that is just an old i7 970 with 24gb ddr3, an old 40gb laptop hdd for OS and 2 2TB seagate drives for storage. I suppose i could have used a usb stick.

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