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Revision as of 10:32, 12 March 2012

Installing XenServer

First you need to decide what XenServer you will install:

  • Citrix XenServer: a commercial product and the only enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform that delivers the critical features of live migration and centralized multi-server management at no cost
  • XCP: the open source version

If using Essex, you are best using XenServer 6.0.2 or XCP 1.1 (the latest stable, as of March 2012)).

Install Citrix XenServer

To help install Citrix XenServer, take a look at the official "Installation Guide" or "Quick Installation Guide" for your version of XenServer:

Install from ISO

To get the XenServer CD go to: http://www.citrix.com/XenServer and click "Try It", then select the "XenServer free edition".

Once you have the ISO downloaded and burnt onto a CD, put the CD in your server, and follow the on screen instruction.

See the above install docs for more details.

Install from PXE

Look here for steps to create a PXE server to install Xenserver in your datacenter.

Install XCP

There are two main ways to get XCP:

  • Packages in Debian/Ubuntu (and soon CentOS/RedHat)
  • Binary distribution similar to XenServer

Installing inside Debian/Ubuntu

Use the latest SID, and do:

  • apt-get install xcp-xapi

Then read the README.Debian

Full Binary XCP Distro

You can download XCP here:

Notes:

  • Install steps are almost identical to XenServer (You do PXE following similar steps to those of XenServer)
  • If you want a feature set similar to XenServer 6.0, then take a look at XCP 1.5 beta
  • If you want a more stable system, try XCP 1.1