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Installing Citrix 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 6.0.0 (or later) or XCP 1.1 (the latest stable releases, as of March 2012).

You may follow one of the methods below, depending on what you choose to install and how:

Important Install Options

Please choose EXT local storage, also called "XenDesktop optimised" and not LVM based local storage.

Many of the OpenStack features will not work with LVM based storage (due to the need for easy access to the raw VHD files).

Installing Citrix XenServer using the CD

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 instructions.

To get a free edition of the Xenserver license you will need to sign up for an account at citrix.com

For more details

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

• http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/QuickStartGuide_BasicVersion.html#server_installation
• http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenserver/xs-where-are-docs-wr.html

Installing Citrix XenServer using PXE

For steps to create a PXE server to install XenServer take a look at: How to PXE Install XenServer.

Installing XCP

There are two main ways to get XCP:

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

Install XCP ISO

You can download the XCP ISO distribution here:

• http://xen.org/download/xcp/index.html

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

Installing XCP on Debian/Ubuntu

For more details see: XenServer/DebianUbuntu

Ubuntu Dev Cloud in a Box

It is possible to:

• install XCP on Ubuntu
• Run DevStack
• install and nfs-server, and export /opt/stack
• mount /opt/stack on your Dom0
• install eclipse
• You now have a XenAPI based OpenStack dev cloud in a box :-)

Installing XCP on Fedora

Coming soon. For more details see: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Project_Zeus_Fedora_Spec

Post Install Steps

You are almost there now, you probably want to checkout out:

• [[XenServer/PostInstall|Post Install steps to prepare XenServer to work with OpenStack]]