Day: May 2, 2011

You can launch the XenCenter using [C:Program FilesCitrixXenCenterXenCenterMain.exe] You need to add the XenServer that you like to manage using the “Add New Server” buttons as highlighted below:          In the Server section, enter the IP-address or Hostname of the XenServer and provide the valid login credentials You’ll now be displayed with the XenServerPool to which the server you connected belongs to. To work under console session of XenServer, switch to the “Console” tab of the XenServer which would much resemble like a Unix SSH shell You’ll have all the management options grouped into various tabs as shown below

Citrix XenServer xe command reference This section provides a reference to the xe commands. They are grouped by objects that the commands address, and listed alphabetically. Bonding commands Commands for working with network bonds, for resilience with physical interface failover. See the section called “Creating NIC bonds on a standalone host” for details. The bond object is a reference object which glues together master and member PIFs. The master PIF is the bonding interface which must be used as the overall PIF to refer to the bond. The member PIFs are a set of 2 or more physical interfaces which […]

XenServer Tools, the XenServer paravirtualization tools, provide high speed I/O for enhanced disk and network performance. XenServer Tools must be installed for each virtual machine (Windows and Linux) in order to be able to use the xe CLI or XenCenter, and VM performance will be significantly lowered unless the tools are installed.   Without the tools installed, you will not be able to do any the following: Cleanly shut down, reboot or suspend a VM. View VM performance data in XenCenter. Migrate a running VM (via XenMotion). Create quiesced snapshots or snapshots with memory (checkpoints), or revert to snapshots. Adjust […]