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checking the status of your raid with LSISAS1068E or perc 6
lsiutil is the program you want, so you can check the status of your raid link: http://docs.avagotech.com/docs/12351668
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add iso partition to xenserver
link: https://adamscheller.com/systems-administration/xenserver-local-iso-storage-new-partition/ for posterity… figure out the name of the volume group (something like name-uuid) pvscan create the new volume lvcreate -L 150G -n ISOs name-uuid find the volume you just created lvscan |grep ISO create the filesystem mkfs.ext2 /dev/other-name-uuid/ISOs make the mount point mkdir /mnt/isos Read more
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how to change the ip address of your xenserver
This will let you pick a uuid xe pif-list this will let you change the ip of that uuid xe pif-reconfigure-ip uuid= mode=static IP=192.168.1.1 netmask=255.255.255.0
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using vm-snapshot to clone a domU
CAUTION: with the following the system is up so you risk file loss, data loss, etc. — use at your own risk. Ideally you would shutdown your domU and use vm-export rather than vm-snapshot. make a snapshot xe vm-snapshot vm=name new-name-label=name-foo this returns a uuid xe vm-export vm=UUID filename=|bzip2 > Read more