It’s been a while since our last post, however things have been moving behind the scenes. The XenServer host server has been racked into it’s host data centre, connected to the iSCSI NAS storage and had XenServer 5.6 FP1 installed. We’ve got a range of IP addresses allocated for things like XenServer management, NAS management, [...]
Jan 202011
Step-by-step guide on how to configure a QLogic iSCSI HBA for use as a XenServer storage repository
Given we’d purchased a NAS device that provides iSCSI connectivity we have three possibilities of connecting to it. 1. Software iSCSI initiator XenServer uses the built-in Linux Kernel software iSCSI initiator to allow easy connection to iSCSI targets. Advantages It’s free, and built into the XenServer OS. No additional hardware required Disadvantages Uses host CPU resources for [...]
Jan 042011
Storage selection As we’d decided not to add any capacity to the local storage in our host server, we now needed to find some external storage that we could use to store the VM guests and ISO library on. Our criteria was: Selection Criteria Low cost We don’t have budget to splash out on an [...]
Finding, building and upgrading the host server hardware that will power the community lab. We examine the specs and decide on what upgrades are required.
