XenServer 7 has launched!

olivier

Some features are only in XenServer Enterprise Edition, like GPU sharing using advanced Intel/Nvidia stuff, some load balancing mess in a dedicated appliance and probably other extra services.

Basically, the only thing which is really interesting Citrix is related to XenDesktop/XenApp. For them, XenServer is the "toolbox" able to run the VM which will be, in the end, running your Windows apps remotely.

JaredBusch

/sigh
I just realized that I downloaded this like a week ago now and have yet to spin up a test box.

FATeknollogee

If I'm understanding you guys correctly, most of these "features" are available via the XS Community ISO..?
• Automated Windows VM Driver Updates
• Automatic updating of the Management Agent
• Support for SMB storage
• Direct Inspect APIs
• Dynamic Workload Balancing
• GPU Virtualization (vGPU) with NVIDIA GRID and Intel GVT-g
• VMware vSphere to XenServer Conversion utilities
• Intel Secure Measured Boot (TXT)
• Export Pool Resource Data
• In-memory read caching

scottalanmiller

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

• VMware vSphere to XenServer Conversion utilities

All, as far as I know. The conversion utility is not part of XS and is not provided with it. That's the only thing that I am aware of on that list not being part of the community package and is an external component anyway.

olivier

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

If I'm understanding you guys correctly, most of these "features" are available via the XS Community ISO..?

Edited your post and sorted with what I believe is in "free" XenServer vs Enterprise. I'm not 100% sure for everything, but let's say at first sight.

Free :

• Support for SMB storage
• Export Pool Resource Data
• Direct Inspect APIs <- I'm not 100% sure about it, didn't checked yet
• Intel Secure Measured Boot (TXT)

Enterprise:

• Dynamic Workload Balancing (via a Citrix Appliance)
• GPU Virtualization (vGPU) with NVIDIA GRID and Intel GVT-g (well, I don't have the hardware to try it)
• In-memory read caching

I don't know:

• Automated Windows VM Driver Updates
• Automatic updating of the Management Agent
• VMware vSphere to XenServer Conversion utilities (probably provided externally, but I think it's free)

hobbit666

Upgraded my lab server. Just need a 2nd lab server now to play with backup/restore and moving VM's lol

scottalanmiller

Can't wait till our lab boxes are back online so that we can get this installed!

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller What is the hold up?

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

@scottalanmiller What is the hold up?

I haven't even heard if it is racked yet or not.

DustinB3403

@olivier said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

If I'm understanding you guys correctly, most of these "features" are available via the XS Community ISO..?

Edited your post and sorted with what I believe is in "free" XenServer vs Enterprise. I'm not 100% sure for everything, but let's say at first sight.

Free :

• Support for SMB storage
• Export Pool Resource Data
• Direct Inspect APIs <- I'm not 100% sure about it, didn't checked yet
• Intel Secure Measured Boot (TXT)

Enterprise:

• Dynamic Workload Balancing (via a Citrix Appliance)
• GPU Virtualization (vGPU) with NVIDIA GRID and Intel GVT-g (well, I don't have the hardware to try it)
• In-memory read caching

I don't know:

• Automated Windows VM Driver Updates
• Automatic updating of the Management Agent
• VMware vSphere to XenServer Conversion utilities (probably provided externally, but I think it's free)

The vGPU is also available in the community edition.
.

Ref.

Francesco Provino

So… why can't I use yum to install packages? I've enable the repos, but yum told me that

 One of the configured repositories failed (Sconosciuto),
and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

 1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

 2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
    upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
    distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
    packages for the previous distribution release still work).

 3. Disable the repository, so yum won't use it by default. Yum will then
    just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again or use
    --enablerepo for temporary usage:

        yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>

 4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
    Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
    so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
    slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
    compromise:

        yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true

 Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7-2.1511.el7.centos.2.10/x86_64

Any idea about that?

scottalanmiller

It is telling you that the repo failed. Either your repo data is wrong or the repo has gone down.

Francesco Provino

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

It is telling you that the repo failed. Either your repo data is wrong or the repo has gone down.

Ehm… it's the standard CentOS 7 base repo!
This one:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra
enabled=1
exclude=kernel kernel-abi-whitelists kernel-debug kernel-debug-devel kernel-devel kernel-doc kernel-tools kernel-tools-libs kernel-tools-libs-devel linux-firmware biosdevname centos-release systemd* stunnel kexec-tools ocaml*
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

And of course it's working on a standard CentOS 7!

scottalanmiller

Check your DNS.

Francesco Provino

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7 has launched!:

Check your DNS.

It seems to me that it's working…
[root@localhost ~]# ping google.it
PING google.it (216.58.198.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mil04s04-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.198.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=69.4 ms
@scottalanmiller, have you try to use yum on any new XS7 installation? Try it yourself, I think that there's something wrong with the default setup…

Kelly

I'm running into this exact issue. I came back here while searching for answers.

scottalanmiller

Our cluster was scheduled to be up and running yesterday, but I've heard no news on it yet. So sadly have not been able to look into doing any testing, yet.

Kelly

Right now I can't get HA-Lizard installed because I can't download the drbd packages. I've been messing with all the *.repo files, but no joy so far.

scottalanmiller

Same repo error as above?

Kelly

Poking at it some more and it looks like there is something sideways about the $releasever variable in the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS.* The resulting URL is http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7-2.1511.el7.centos.2.10/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.

The one that I get manually navigating is: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.2.1511/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml