Citrix Xencenter Download

[Eugene Aubry]

SelectUse license access code and enter the license access code you got in an email from Citrix, and choose Display Licenses. Your license entitlements display and you can choose licenses and the quantity to install.

In the Apply License dialog, specify the Edition type to assign to the host, and type the hostname or IP address of the License Server. The XenServer host or pool is now licensed.

Use the Citrix Licensing Manager to automatically install any renewed licenses to the license server. For automatic license renewal, you need access to citrix.com public domains through the License Server.

If the automatic checks for Customer Success Services renewal licenses fail, check the firewall setting or configure a proxy.For this feature to work, the License Server must be able to access For more information, see the Configure a proxy server manually section in the Get started article.

I'm ssh'd into the xenserver and trying to locate the snapshots using "find /scripts grep -i string" where string is what I called the snapshot when I took it in xencenter. This method doesn't work, so I want to know where xenserver keeps the snapshots I make?

"There are no snapshot files. Virtual disks (including snapshots) in an LVM SR are stored as volumes. You can manage volumes with commands in the lvm2 package (run rpm -vV lvm2 to see the included commands)."

I know this is late to the game, but there is an option to use an Ext3 filesystem based Storage Repository when installing XenServer. If this is done then the VM disks are actual VHD files stored in /var/run/sr-mount/.

During the install, when choosing the disk(s) to use for virtual machine storage, make sure to select "Enable thin provisioning (Optimized storage for XenDesktop)". Even if you aren't going to be using XenDesktop this still is the option that enables the Ext3-based SR versus the default LVM.

For someone who might want to attempt switching an existing install from an LVM SR to an Ext3 SR, look under the "Converting an Existing Host to Use Thin Provisioning" section in the Installation Guide, though be fully aware that this will DESTROY any existing data and VMs in the LVM SR. So you need to back up or migrate any VMs out of the existing SR before making the switch.

In case Citrix changes the links for the documents, or when new XenServer versions become available, just search Google for "Xenserver Installation Guide" or "Xenserver Administrator's Guide" and it should be pretty easy to find.

Storage of XenServer snapshots is dependent on the type of storage repository (SR) used, as well as the Xen version number under which the SR was originally created. This white paper provides all the gory details.

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