Depending on your datacenter allotment of IP addresses, you may be required to use the xenserver hypervisor as a gateway in order to provide different IP subnets to your underlying virtual machines. Our particular installation uses our datacenter “gateway/primary” IP as the xenserver management interface IP address on xenbr0. All other datacenter IP allotments will …
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Adding different subnet IP’s to Xenserver
January 5th, 2012 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (1 Comments)SATA Direct Local Disk Access on Xenserver
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (46 Comments)There are several reasons why you may wish to attach a physical disk to your existing Xenserver installation, in our case we use it for both a permanent storage solution as well as moving large sets of data around (such as copying out virtual disks or data intensive backups). It’ll treat the SATA (or better yet eSATA) …
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S.M.A.R.T disk monitoring on Linux using smartctl
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (0 Comments)Monitoring your RAID array and hard disk health status using SMART should be priority No.1 on any system. Early warnings and preventative maintenance will save you time, money and huge headaches in the long run. It’s always a good practice to order your hard drives at different times or from multiple vendors in order to eliminate the …
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RAID disk monitoring on Xenserver with email alerting
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (1 Comments)Unlike ESXi, Xenserver doesn’t really have much health monitoring built in (especially not the free license versions). Xenserver has always been the light weight, thin, streamlined and better performing virtualization product; though as time progresses Citrix is slowly adding more features and modifying their licensing structure to be more competitive. But fore now we’ll handle our …
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Enable email on Xenserver using SMTP
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (0 Comments)Before we get into a few other articles which will help monitor both your RAID array and S.M.A.R.T disk status under Xenserver, we’ll first need to enable the ability to send emails from our hypervisor. This is going to be done by forwarding email through our actual mail server instead of using Xenserver itself. Assuming …
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