{"id":13880,"date":"2019-07-13T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.storagereview.com\/news\/how-to-install-citrix-hypervisor-xenserver\/"},"modified":"2019-07-13T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:24:13","slug":"how-to-install-citrix-hypervisor-xenserver","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.storagereview.com\/news\/how-to-install-citrix-hypervisor-xenserver","title":{"rendered":"How To Install Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this edition of Before the Home Lab<\/a> we'll look at installing Citrix Hypervisor, formally called XenServer. Citrix Hypervisor is the virtualization platform based on the Xen Project. It used to be the best alternative for getting VMware-like features in an open source product until version 7.3. Since version 7.3, the following features were moved behind Citrix Hypervisor's Standard per core licensing<\/p>\n In this edition of Before the Home Lab<\/a> we'll look at installing Citrix Hypervisor, formally called XenServer.<\/p>\n Citrix Hypervisor is the virtualization platform based on the Xen Project. It used to be the best alternative for getting VMware-like features in an open source product until version 7.3. Since version 7.3, the following features were moved behind Citrix Hypervisor's Standard per core licensing.<\/p>\n First thing we should do is go download XenServer, and Citrix wants yet another account so we can forget the credentials.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ready to download.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Citrix would like to remind you not to give this software to terrorists. Thank you, Citrix.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a physical deployment, you’d make a bootable disk out of this ISO on a flash drive and then install it on your hardware on an SD card or USB drive. Since this is a virtual deployment, we’re going to move this ISO file directly into the main datastore on my ESXi test bed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For reference, we added 50GB of thin-provisioned hard drive and an ISO file for Citrix Hypervisor. Under CPU, we clicked ‘expose hardware assisted virtualization’ so Citrix Hypervisor can do it’s thing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We can then start the VM and see the installer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n At this point, Citrix Hypervisor couldn’t detect the SCSI hard drive so I switched the controller to SATA. Signing my soul away… signing my soul away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Live dangerously.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don’t forget your password.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Choose Freedomland.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Choose your timezone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next… next…. next.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And away we go.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now you should go back to that download page and get XenCenter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The msi installer’s pretty simple.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next up we'll go over how to install Proxmox<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\nWhat is Citrix Hypervisor?<\/h2>\n
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How to Install Citrix Hypervisor<\/h2>\n