Xen Cloud Platform is the free/open community driven version of Citrix Xenserver. I've moved all of my Xen Virtual Machines to Xen cloud Platform so any future tutorials will most likely be about XCP. I've found XCP to be a wonderful product but not necessarily an easy tool sometimes thus the tutorials you see below.
How to get started: Go to Xen.org and download the latest ISO disk image of Xen Cloud Platform and install it on a machine. It uses the whole machine as it's an appliance so beware. By the way I think this is the best design strategy. It's a good idea to let your Hypervisor/Cloud stack focus on what it's good at and not use it for playing World of Warcraft. ;-)
Expect a great deal more Howtos in the future. Feel free to request them as well. If it's within scope of what I'm doing I may create one just for you.
These tutorials can also be found on the Xenapi Admin Project website and the XCP wiki.
- Access VHD VDIs from the Control Domain
- Add a CD to a VM
- Add a hard disk to a VM
- Apply hotfixes to XCP 1.6
- Automated install of CentOS 6 VM (32 bit)
- Automated install of CentOS 6 VM (64 bit)
- Automated install of Debian Wheezy VM (64 bit) using preseed
- Automated install of Fedora 17 VM (32 bit)
- Automated install of Fedora 17 VM (64 bit)
- Automated install of Ubuntu 12.04 VM (32 bit) using preseed
- Automated install of Ubuntu 12.04 VM (64 bit) using kickstart
- Automated install of Ubuntu 12.04 VM (64 bit) using preseed
- Create an EXT CD repository
- Create an iSCSI target on a Control Domain
- Create an LVM CD repository
- Create an NFS CD repository
- Create custom templates
- Fix the XCP expired license issue
- Install git on XCP host
- Install XCP from a USB thumbdrive
- Install Xenapi Admin Tools from github
- Install XenWebManager Appliance
- Install XenWebManager on XCP host
- Install XVP Appliance
- Interactive install of OpenSuse 11.4 VM (64 bit)
- Make VMs autoboot
- Reboot stuck VMs