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Install XenServer via usb flash drive

Rob —  September 3, 2013 — 1 Comment

USB Flash drives are getting cheaper and cheaper lately. I just picked up few at staples – 16GB flash drives for just under $8. I like to use them to install Linux – I always seem to scratch CDs or DVDs by the time I get to the datacenter!

This short article will show you how to install XenServer using a usb flash drive, though, you could use this similarly for other distributions of Linux as well like CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, etc..
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Run fsck on a XenServer Virtual Machine

Rob —  June 11, 2013 — 3 Comments

You hope that you won’t ever need to, but you may one day need to run fsck on a Linux XenServer VM that won’t boot.. no worries, attach the storage from that VM on another VM and run it from there! Continue Reading…

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Install nrpe on XenServer

Rob —  June 11, 2013 — 3 Comments

If you are using nagios in your hosting environment and need to install nrpe on your XenServer servers, here’s a good way to do it.
I’m using XenServer 6.1 (latest version). Continue Reading…

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