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![]() ![]() For this guide, none of the supplemental packs available will be installed at this point but will be covered later once XenServer is up and running. The next step allows for the installation of Supplemental Packs (SP) at the time of install. Since the installer was boot locally with a CD/DVD/USB, make sure to select the “ Local Media” option. The next screen will prompt the user for the location of the installation files. Select XenServer Virtual Machine Storageħ. Make sure the the asterisk ( * ) character is next to the hard drive selection to install XenServer and tab to the “ OK” button. The RAID system is reflected as “ sda – 556 GB ” For this guide, thin provisioning is not necessary. In this example the RAID setup on the server is where XenServer will be installed. The next screen requests the installation device. ![]() Feel free to read the whole thing, as your supposed to anyways right, otherwise using the keyboard arrows move the cursor over to the “ Accept EULA” button and hit enter. The next prompt is the obligatory EULA (End User License Agreement). In this particular case, it is to install XenServer to the machine so it is safe to click “ OK”. The next screen asks the user to confirm the reason for booting to this media as well as provide the option to load extra hardware drivers if needed. The first screen will ask the user to provide a language selection. This will boot the user into the XenServer installer. At this point simply press enter to begin the booting process. Upon successful boot the user should be greeted by the wonderful Citrix XenServer boot splash. Now place the media into the system that XenServer will be installed and boot to that media. Now burn the ISO to a CD or using ‘ dd‘ to copy the ISO to a flash drive. This can easily be accomplished by visiting the link above or using the ‘ wget‘ utility on a Linux system. ![]() The first step in the installation is to download the XenServer ISO file. Installation of Citrix Xenserver 6.5 Guideġ. 24TB Dell PE5500E for storage of the virtual machine disks (Not necessary if enough local space exists on the XenServer)Īll in all this server is primed to be a stellar XenServer so let’s begin the installation process.4 300GB SAS drives (overkill but it was all that was available).At least a 100mbps network card multiple gigabit suggested.Harddrive space of at least 16GB more required if virtual machines will be saved locally.Mimimum 1 64bit 1.5GHz cpu 2GHz or more and multiple CPUs are suggested.Minimum 2GB ram 4GB or more recommended to run virtual machines.Many systems will work even if not listed but results may vary, use at your own risk.Future additions to this article will walk through adding virtual machine storage repositories, XenServer pooling, creating virtual machines on the XenServer, as well as managing XenServers with XenCenter and Xen Orchestra as discussed above series. This first article will walk through the process of installing and configuring Citrix XenServer. In this 5-article Citrix Xenserver series, we will going to cover the following topics: Both types of hypervisors have their place and benefits but this particular article is going to look at the bare-metal hypervisor in XenServer. This type of hypervisor is generally referred to as a hosted hypervisor. This contrasts to systems such as Virtualbox which require a Linux/Mac/Windows operating system to be installed and then virtual machines created within the Virtualbox application. The Xen hypervisor is referred to as a “ bare-metal hypervisor” meaning that it is installed to the physical server and acts as a resource manager for all of the virtualized server instances that will be run on top of Xen. XenServer Installation and Configuration Guide – Part 1Ĭitrix offers such a solution, known as XenServer, which utilizes the popular Linux Xen hypervisor. By simply leveraging un-used resources on powerful servers/workstations companies can effectively run multiple logical servers on one or several physical servers. Operating system virtualization technologies aren’t anything new but over the last several years they have become more and more popular as data centers look to provide more functionality in the same or less amounts of physical space. ![]() As computing devices quickly surpass the requirements of operating systems, it has increasingly become more efficient for organizations to invest/migrate to virtualized systems. ![]()
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