‘XenServer’

• XenServer Management on Steroids with SCVMM 2012 Part 1

  Posted Oct 16 2012 by Shane Kleinert with 2 Comments

  I recently took a deeper dive into XenServer for a large project I’m currently working on, and to my amazement a few features that have been around for a while in other hypervisors were missing in XenServer. I could go into some other features, but …

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• Hypervisors and the features discussions, will this become obsolete?

  Posted Jun 20 2012 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  With the upcoming release of Hyper-V 3.0 we see a lot of movement from both VMware and Microsoft on marketing level so all features are promoted, recently this type of marketing became a bit more ugly as VMware launched a ‘Get the facts‘  and older …

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• Adjusting XenServer Dynamic Memory Minimum Limits (lower than 1024MB) through XE CLI

  Posted Jan 31 2012 by Dane Young with 0 Comments

  If you’ve ever tried to provision a Windows 7 32-bit XenServer Virtual Machine with dynamic memory, you may have experienced a frustration I have with XenCenter only allowing 1024MB for the Win7 dynamic memory minimum value:

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• Implementing a Multi-Node Hypervisor Cluster on a Single Desktop Running VMware Workstation 8

  Posted Oct 8 2011 by Dane Young with 6 Comments

  As a field consultant for the last several years, I have been amazed at the numerous deployment scenarios that can be reproduced utilizing just one piece of physical hardware. Due to increasingly expensive electrical bills I trimmed down my server class lab hardware nearly a …

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• Upgrading to XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2

  Posted May 18 2011 by Jarian Gibson with 21 Comments

  With the recent release of XenServer 5.6 Service Pack 2, you have two ways to upgrade depending on which version of XenServer you are upgrading from.  In this blog post I am going to go over upgrading from XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 and XenServer …

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