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| How the boot disk is identified when we start XenServer from SAN boot? |
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| The san boot info is stored in the BIOS of HBA |
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| In order to integrate Active Directory authentication with a XenServer host what kind of DNS setting should be used? |
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| The same DNS server is used for both the AD server and Xenserver host |
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| What DHCP options must an administrator configure for a target device to start up without PXE using a bootstrap file? |
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| 66 and 67 need to be selected. |
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| How a Windows Vdisk can be used by multiple target devices in Standard Image mode to prepare the Windows server for physical to virtual conversion? |
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| need to optimize the vdisk |
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| Can you please explain the upgrade process of Xen Server host |
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| Download the update and then Shut down, suspend or migrate the virtual machines running on the host then only you may proceed with the update process. |
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| If We cloned a template into a virtual machine and then converted it back into a template, will it impact on disk performance. Can we manage the disk ? performance. |
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| This task may not impact our storage performance if we complete a full copy of restoration. |
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| How FAST clone method impact the disk performance while introducing new VMs through it? |
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| This could have a storage impact because this process will generate a linked VHD clone disk. This means that the VM created from a template will have its disk linked to the template’s disk. |
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| Benifit of citrix xen server technology ? |
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| This is used for Virtualization. Each Virtualization technology has its own benefits |
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| What is the command to change the subnet of the Xenserver hosts ? |
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| xe pif-reconfigure-ip uuid= mode=static netmask= |
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| How the NTP settings can be changed at the time of migration of the XenServer so that their may not any effect on current time value. |
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| Time zone can be changed through xsconsole. |
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| Which item in the Provisioning Services Console will the administrator need to configure to delete a machine account from the Active Directory domain? |
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| Target Device |
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| How to restart a VM through CLI correctly? |
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| Execute commands xe vm-reboot vm= or xe vm-reboot uuid= |
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| .If a resource pool in a XenServer environment in which high availability is enabled is unable to connect. How it can be recover |
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| Run the emergency-ha-disable command, then once the host is restarted, run the pool-haenable command. |
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| How to restart a VM through CLI correctly? |
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| Execute commands xe vm-reboot vm= or xe vm-reboot uuid= |
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| Can we upgrade the memory size of a Xen Server host live in production ? |
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| yes you can, to upgrading a memory in live env. first place the host in maint mode in the Xen Server resource pool |
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| How FAST clone method impact the disk performance while introducing new VMs through it? |
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| This could have a storage impact because this process will generate a linked VHD clone disk. This means that the VM created from a template will have its disk linked to the template’s disk. |
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| If we want to configure a Provisioning services environment for Microsoft volume license management. Which property need to configured? |
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| Target Device |
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| What DHCP options must an administrator configure for a target device to start up without PXE using a bootstrap file? |
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| 66 and 67 need to be selected |
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| To add a new provisioning server to an existing farm how to configure existing virtual machines which is using the Stream Service from the new provisioning server? |
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| Select Bootstrap options. |
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| ow to perform the virtual machine export from a remote machine? |
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| to perform the virtual machine export, execute the command xe vm-export -h -u -pw vm= filename= |
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| In order to integrate Active Directory authentication with a XenServer host what kind of DNS setting should be used? |
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| The same DNS server is used for both the Active Directory server and the XenServer host. |
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| If We cloned a template into a virtual machine and then converted it back into a template, will it impact on disk performance. Can we manage the disk performance. |
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| This task may not impact our storage performance if we complete a full copy of restoration. |
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| 6.2 is the latest version? |
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| latest version is 6.5.1 |
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| How to replicate the network bond on the newly connected hosts of a pool? |
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| run the CLI command xe pool-join |
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| Which item in the Provisioning Services Console will the administrator need to configure to add a machine account from the Active Directory domain? |
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| Select Bootstrap options. |
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| How to remove the specific permissions from the VM Admin user group in the situation of removing specific permissions from the users in the VM Admin Role Based Access Control group? |
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| Run the xe subject-role-remove uuid= role-name=vm.pool_migrate XenServer command. |
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| /dev/sda1 partition is 4gb by default , can we increase this as I have a bulk virtual machines, working area for this is becoming low and server becoming panic ? |
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| yes you can |
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| What DHCP options must an administrator configure for a target device to start up without PXE using a bootstrap file? |
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| 66 and 67 need to select.. |
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| What is DVS controller in Xenserver? |
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| DVS controller is used when an administrator needs to configure a private network between virtual machines on two hosts in a pool using XenCenter. |
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| To disable the auto-configure of the NIC ports of Xenservres what steps can be followed.? |
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| Use the xe pif-param-set command to set other-config:ethtool-autoneg=off. |
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| Tell me how to add ISO library to Xen pool ? |
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| yes you can mount the ISO file from Windows share through CISF. |
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| How to perform the virtual machine export from a remote machine? |
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| to perform the virtual machine export, execute the command xe vm-export -h -u -pw vm= filename= |
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| How to move multiple virtual machines from the test resource pool into the production resource pool. |
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| Need to Optimize the vDisk. |
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| To add a new group of similar computers to an existing Provisioning services farm? |
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| use Device collection. |
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| how does citrix xen server bonding works? |
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| through LACP |
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| How a Windows Vdisk can be used by multiple target devices in Standard Image mode to prepare the Windows server for physical to virtual conversion? |
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| need to Optimize the vDisk. |
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| How to update multiple private Virtual machines images where snapshots are not being used? |
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| We need to update each of the vDisks individually. |
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| How the boot disk is identified when we start XenServer from SAN boot? |
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| The SAN boot information is sto add tored in the BIOS of the HBA |
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| What are the heartbeat determining mechanism for XEN HA |
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| Xen server native HA to be used |
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| How Xen HA handles failure , is there any master slave concept or some other mechanism? |
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| native HA. |
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| We solve heartbeat related probs by having 2 mechanism. 1. Storage HB and NW heartbeat |
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| Can we combine multiple LUN’s in to one logical volume ? if yes would you please provide steps |
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| Yes we can combine. there are several steps to do this. Kindly get in touch seperately on mail |
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| If we want to update the XenServer Pool with controlling the update path and the virtual machine migration, so what will be the right way to do so.? |
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| Yes , you should Update each host individually starting with the pool master |
