Xen orchestra - anyone?
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@olivier said:
Hi lads!
I'm XO's project leader
- @scottalanmiller XO does provide DR features, see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/disaster_recovery.html
- @johnhooks it's all Open Source (aGPLv3). If you don't want the turnkey solution (appliance and pro support), "use the sources Luke"
- about the price itself, please consider you'll have an appliance with support working out of the box (plus the web updater). And price is flat.
- complete features list is here: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/features.html
Last thing, about using it inside or outside your infrastructure: because it's agent-less, you can use it everywhere. You can even imagine a small host with only XOA inside, the thing needed to "talk" to your others XenServer host is only a TCP connection to port 443. VPN connection to multiple datacenter is fairly possible (or other tunnels).
That's awesome! Somehow I missed the open source haha
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@johnhooks said:
@olivier said:
Hi lads!
I'm XO's project leader
- @scottalanmiller XO does provide DR features, see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/disaster_recovery.html
- @johnhooks it's all Open Source (aGPLv3). If you don't want the turnkey solution (appliance and pro support), "use the sources Luke"
- about the price itself, please consider you'll have an appliance with support working out of the box (plus the web updater). And price is flat.
- complete features list is here: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/features.html
Last thing, about using it inside or outside your infrastructure: because it's agent-less, you can use it everywhere. You can even imagine a small host with only XOA inside, the thing needed to "talk" to your others XenServer host is only a TCP connection to port 443. VPN connection to multiple datacenter is fairly possible (or other tunnels).
That's awesome! Somehow I missed the open source haha
So did I, this is really good news.
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Sadly the open source build is built on Debian 7 (Wheezy) 64 bits, which is almost 3 years out of date.
You'd really want to update once you have the system working to be secured if you go with the free version.
Then you'd have to confirm that everything is working as expected.
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I saw in the notes info about building on FreeBSD, at least.
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@DustinB3403 That's because a lot of our users are using XS 6.1 or 6.2: they can't boot newer versions of Debian (due to old Pygrub shipped in XS).
Using HVM? Some users don't even have hardware virt extensions for it...
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So I just built from source in an Ubuntu 14.04 LXC container on my desktop. It installed and I can get to the interface. I just need to install xenserver on something to try it out
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Very nice!
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@johnhooks said:
So I just built from source in an Ubuntu 14.04 LXC container on my desktop. It installed and I can get to the interface. I just need to install xenserver on something to try it out
Very cool.
Take some screenshots too and show us what comes with the installation steps you followed.
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Here's a screenshot. Looks to be working well.
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Hrm now I want to set it up...
But do I really have a need.... I mean... do I neeeeeed it.... ?
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The mobile view is pretty nice. It's nice to be able to just log in on your phone and see stats or restart something.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Hrm now I want to set it up...
But do I really have a need.... I mean... do I neeeeeed it.... ?
Luckily for you we work in IT and NEEDING it is not something we are concerned about!!
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Next release (4.11) will be awesome!
- Incremental backup
- Cloud Init support
- SMB remote for backup (only NFS until now)
- Improved search bar
- XMPP alert plugin
- A lot of small but useful things
- And a far better support of older XS version (6.1 and 6.2)
- ~40 issues closed
Hope to deliver this Monday or Tuesday at worst
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Nice.
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Really need to update to the most recent version of XenServer, this looks like a lot of useful stuff.
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@olivier said:
Next release (4.11) will be awesome!
Now I have to set it up, that is AWESOME!! AWESOME!! AWESOME!!
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@DustinB3403 said:
@olivier said:
Next release (4.11) will be awesome!
Now I have to set it up, that is AWESOME!! AWESOME!! AWESOME!!
What makes this even better is the fact that you can share this container with the rest of us.
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@olivier said:
Next release (4.11) will be awesome!
- Incremental backup
- Cloud Init support
- SMB remote for backup (only NFS until now)
- Improved search bar
- XMPP alert plugin
- A lot of small but useful things
- And a far better support of older XS version (6.1 and 6.2)
- ~40 issues closed
Hope to deliver this Monday or Tuesday at worst
Awesome. Incremental backups are the big item here for sure. XMPP is big for me, but not likely too many people. That's a very cool feature.
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@scottalanmiller XMPP feature story is nice: I did a XenServer training session to a customer, and he told me he would love to have this feature? It sounded fun for one of our dev, so he did it pretty quick (2 days later). That's indeed fun to have XO telling you the backup job finished correctly
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We used to do something similar with StatusNET. We'd have servers have a little script that they could use to post to the StatusNET system. So anytime that they did a scheduled task like update or reboot, they would post a friendly status saying "I am updating now" or "Backups just completed" or "I'm going down for reboot, make sure I respond upon return."
