Install xenserver on esxi

Testing and learning about different platforms is always a good idea before committing changes into production environments but also a good to experiment and compare different solutions. In this instance I would like to explore the capabilities of the latest releases of Xen Hypervisor now part of Citrix Virtualisation portfolio currently at version 7.

There are plenty of features this version of XenServer brings and in particular there is also an enhanced support for video GPU vGPU instructions from different vendors. The numbers of features is exhaustive and palatable from single server Host installs to enterprise scale. This article series will focus on the Free edition as it is using exactly the same source code as the Standard and Enterprise.

Of course with fewer features available. This list of course is not set in stone. Ideally I would like to more articles including the option to install either the Open-VM-Tools or native VMware tools on the nested XenSever to help with the performances. But also other aspects about the configuration for the storage and network. First of all we need to create a new VM which will be our container for the nested XenServer.

As of the latest version of XenServer 7. Any disk below this threshold will fail the install. This will give us the opportunity to benefit from the latest virtual Hardware version. As per the Operating System type of course no XenServer is available from the drop down. At this point we can customize the virtual Hardware. Depending on current home lab resources of course we can assign the desired settings.

In my case the XenServer Host will have the following:. And this concludes the first part of this series focusing on nested XenServer install in a VMware environment. I have another Xenserver 7. I wouldn't go to the trouble of trying to get nested hypervisors to work It may not even work. This is the best I've found so far.

Not sure if I'm going to try it or not. I tried Xenconvert 2. I wanted to run the tool from windows and tell it to go migrate my linux machine to a XenServer host. Centos 5. CentOS 5. After using interactive boot I noticed the hp-ilo driver was causing the panic so I skipped it and allowed the system to boot. When I tried my other CentOS 5. I may not have enough space which is why I wanted to build a bigger ESXi system as a 1. My 4th system is another DL G4 but has GB of disks in it's 6 drive array so I will need the space for that as well.

So is there a Xenconvert piece i should know about that runs on the command line of the Linux guest? I have several versions of Xenconvert from the past but the newest versioned. AS you can see I don't really have any options. Looks like I have a few versions already downloaded Using 2. If you have a newer guide I'll take it but for now I'm going to assume the guide didn't change much.

XenConvert is okay for going Windows to XenServer, but I don't think you can use it to play a middleman. I'll stop trying to nest esxi under Xenserver but i have a feeling Xenconvert isn't going to be any fun.

One important step is to execute the following command from the console: echo 'vhv. This will ensure that you won't receive the "HVM is required for this operation" error when trying to boot the win2k8R2 vm it is possible to change this after the install of XenServer as well.

Download the install. When done, you will get startup screen as below. Download XenCenter from citrix. No comments:. Post a Comment Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.