22-Dec-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, XenServer 5.5
Tags: Asus, Citrix, G.Skill, Intel, Lian Li, PNY, Seagate, Silverstone, XenServer, XenServer at home
I need a XenServer at home to work on some project for my company (Activlan), I don’t want a real server because it would be too noisy in my apartment 
So I’m looking for a silent computer and I think I made it with the element bellow :
- Case : Lian Li PC-V351B
- Power Supply : Silverstone Nightjar ST45NF – 450W
- MotherBoard : Asus Maximus II Gene
- Cpu : Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9550
- Ram : G.Skill Extreme Series MQ 4×4096Mo PC6400 Dual Channel CAS6
- Video : PNY Quadro NVS 295 PCI-E 16x (for another workstation #XD4)
- Hard Drive : Seagate Barracuda ES.2 S-ATA – 1000 Go – 32 Mo (x2)
I think it should work fine, just some question remains : The network adapter on the Asus motherboard might not be compatible with XenServer and I choose two hard drive to build a RAID 1 but I’m affraid XenServer won’t be able to recognize the sata RAID controller. So we’ll see… If anyone have an experience with this material, please let me know !
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14-Jun-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Now the final release of XenServer 5.5 is available for download (Â https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=683148 with you MyCitrix account ) I had to upgrade my XenServer 5.5 beta 1 to this new release.
My first step was to download all iso files and XenCenter 5.5, the I began with and upgrade of XenCenter, and the problem I had once everything was install, that didn’t work… The XenCenter console disn’t show up, the I choose to uninstall everything and delete the folder in “c:\program files\Citrix\XenCenter” and proceed the setup again. It did the trick.
17-Apr-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
This is another video, and this one is about XenServer 5. This installation is not very handy when you’re not familliar with linux / unix setup.
They key to use are simple, forget your mouse, and use Tab, Space, Arrows and Enter.
Edit 17 April 2009 : I’ve add the “normal” installation, and if you want to try to install Citrix XenServer 5 on a VMWare, you have to configure the CPU emulation this way :
Click on continue reading to watch the video
24-Feb-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Big news from Simon Crosby, check it out :
If you’re reading this, you already know the news: XenServer, our enterprise virtual infrastructure platform is now free (including resource pooling and live relo), and we have announced Citrix Essentials for XenServer, and Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V as our virtualization management portfolio that offers a rich set of automated functions that drive the compatible virtualization layers beneath – the free Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft, and the free XenServer Enterprise virtual infrastructure platform from Citrix. Finally, and most importanly, we announced a powerful go-to-market roadmap with Microsoft.
Response to our announcements has been extremely positive, from our partner Microsoft to our channel partners and resellers, and many many customers and users. There are the expected nay-sayers too, but someone had to drink the only thing that you get free from our competitor – VMware koolaid.
more on http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/simoncr/2009/02/23/Free%2C+as+in+Virtual+Infrastructure
