Index
A
- Active/Active bonding / Active/Active bonding
- Active/Passive bonding / Active/Passive bonding
- NIC Bond, creating / Creating an NIC Bond
- Active Directory authentication
- about / Understanding Active Directory authentication
- points / Understanding Active Directory authentication
- TCP\UDP ports / Understanding Active Directory authentication
- enabling, on pool / Enabling Active Directory authentication on a pool
- external authentication, disabling / Disabling Active Directory Authentication
- user authentication / User authentication
- best practice / User authentication
- user access removing, CLI used / Removing access for a user using the CLI
- Add Resource Pool button / Deploying the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- Advanced Options / Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository
- Archive after every scheduled snapshot option / Creating a VM protection policy
- arguments parameter / Creating a XenServer resource pool
- Attempt to start next VM after option / Configuring High Availability
B
- bonds
- about / Managing bonds
- NIC bonding / Managing bonds
- managing / Managing bonds
- Active/Active bonding / Active/Active bonding
- Active/Passive bonding / Active/Passive bonding
C
- cd-name parameter / Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine
- Chargeback Utilization Analysis report / Chargeback Utilization Analysis
- coalescing / Deleting a snapshot
- command parameter / Creating a XenServer resource pool
D
- DAS
- about / Direct Attached Storage
- device-config=SCSIid parameter / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- device-config parameter / Adding a Storage Repository
- device parameter / Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine
- directory parameter / Storage overview
- disk-only / Managing snapshots
- disk and memory / Managing snapshots
- Distributed vSwitch Controller / Distributed vSwitch Controller overview
- deploying / Deploying the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- managing / Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- dashboard / Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- Visibility & Control / Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- Settings / Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- highest level, options / Managing the Distributed vSwitch Controller
- status, viewing / Viewing the status of a Distributed vSwitch Controller
- virtual machines group / Address and virtual machine groups
- addresses / Address and virtual machine groups
- Access Control List rules, manging / Managing Access Control List rules
- Access Control List rules, managing / Managing Access Control List rules
- Port Configuration Policies, setting / Setting Port Configuration Policies
- DMC
E
- edition parameter / Activating a non-free edition
- Enable multipathing on this server checkbox / Enabling multipathing
- entity / Authenticating users with Active Directory
- Excluded Hosts pane / Excluding hosts from recommendations
F
- FC / Fibre Channel (FC)
- Point-to-Point (FC-P2P) / Fibre Channel (FC)
- Arbitrated loop (FC-AL) / Fibre Channel (FC)
- Switched fabric (FC-SW) / Fibre Channel (FC)
- fencing / Overview of High Availability
G
- <gateway> parameter / Deploying the Distributed vSwitch Controller
H
- HA
- overview / Overview of High Availability
- about / Overview of High Availability
- storage heartbeat mechanism / Overview of High Availability
- network heartbeat mechanism / Overview of High Availability
- host failures to tolerate concept / Overview of High Availability
- requirement / Overview of High Availability
- restart priorities, setting / Setting restart priorities
- configuring / Configuring High Availability
- ha-always-run parameter / Configuring High Availability
- HA configuration
- about / Configuring High Availability
- enabling, XenCenter used / Configuring High Availability
- HA Restart Priority option / Configuring High Availability
- Start Order option / Configuring High Availability
- Attempt to start next VM after option / Configuring High Availability
- enabling, xe command line used / Configuring High Availability
- virtual machines, managing / Managing host and virtual machines with High Availability
- host, managing / Managing host and virtual machines with High Availability
- host, rebooting / Shutting down or rebooting a host with HA enabled
- host, shutting down / Shutting down or rebooting a host with HA enabled
- protected VM, shutting down / Shutting down a protected VM
- HA Restart Priority option / Configuring High Availability
- HBA / Storage Area Network (SAN)
- heartbeat-sr-uuids parameter / Configuring High Availability
- heterogeneous XenServer resource pool
- Home Server page / Importing VMs from XVA
- host
- host-emergency-ha-disable command / Shutting down or rebooting a host with HA enabled
- host-uuid parameter / Preparing a XenServer host for maintenance, Activating a non-free edition
- host-uuid parameter / Adding a Storage Repository, Applying a hotfix or update using the command line
- host failures to tolerate concept / Overview of High Availability
- Host Health History report / Host Health History
- Host list box / Generating reports
- hotfix
- applying, XenCenter used / Applying a hotfix or update using XenCenter
- applying, command line / Applying a hotfix or update using the command line
- HVM / Using VM templates
I
- IETF / Network File System (NFS)
- Import or Export button / Importing and exporting a vApp
- initial network configuration
- about / Initial network configuration
- XenServer Pools / Networking and XenServer Pools
- Install Update wizard / Applying a hotfix or update using XenCenter
- IQNs
- iSCSI
- about / Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
- software initiator / Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
- hardware initiator / Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
- iSCSI targets / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
L
- license-server-address parameter / Activating a non-free edition
- license-server-port parameter / Activating a non-free edition
- Log button / Converting a physical machine
- LUN / Storage overview
- LVM / Storage overview
M
- Maintenance Mode / Preparing a XenServer host for maintenance
- Manage vApps dialog box / Importing and exporting a vApp
- Maximize Performance mode / Adjusting Workload Balancing automation
- memory, virtual machine
- overview / Virtual machine memory overview
- DMC / Understanding Dynamic Memory Control
- managing / Managing virtual machine memory
- mount command / Storage overview
- multipathing
- about / Storage multipathing
- enabling, pre-action / Storage multipathing
- enabling / Enabling multipathing
N
- name-label parameter / Configuring High Availability
- NAS / Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- network heartbeat mechanism / Overview of High Availability
- network types
- single-server private network / Network types
- cross-server private network / Network types
- exxternal network / Network types
- bonded network / Network types
- about / Network types
- cross-server private network, conditions / Network types
- network uuid parameter / Connecting a virtual machine to a VLAN
- new-name-description parameter / Creating a snapshot
- new-name-label parameter / Creating a Windows machine
- new pool master host
- designating / Designating a new pool master host
- New Storage Repository wizard / Creating a new ISO Storage Repository
- NFS / Storage protocols, Network File System (NFS)
- NFS VHD Storage Repository
- configuring / Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository
- NIC bonding / Managing bonds
O
- Off-line Coalesce tool / Deleting a snapshot
- Open vSwitch
- optimization mode
- about / Adjusting Optimization Mode
- Maximize Performance type / Adjusting Optimization Mode
- maximize density / Adjusting Optimization Mode
- optimization recommendations
- Optimization mode / Configuring Workload Balancing
- performance metrics / Configuring Workload Balancing
- Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) / Fibre Channel (FC)
- OVA / Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
P
- P2V / Converting a physical machine to virtual
- password parameters / Creating a XenServer resource pool
- pbd-create command / Adding a Storage Repository
- PBDs / Physical Block Devices (PBDs)
- physical machine
- converting / Converting a physical machine
- pif-uuid parameter / Configuring management interfaces
- pool-vlan-create command / Connecting a virtual machine to a VLAN
- Pool Administrator (Pool Admin) role / Roles and Permissions
- Pool Audit Trail report / Pool Audit Trail
- pool database metadata / Backing up your XenServer environment
- failures, restoring / Restoring from failures
- Pool Health History report / Pool Health History
- Pool Master property / Creating a XenServer resource pool
- Pool Operator (Pool Operator) role / Roles and Permissions
- Pool Operator role / Installing Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
- Pool Optimization History report / Pool Optimization History
- Pool Optimization Performance History report / Pool Optimization Performance History
- Properties screen / Adding and modifying virtual networks
- Protocol parameter / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- Provisioning options parameter / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- Provisioning type parameter / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
Q
- quiesced / Managing snapshots
R
- RAID types parameter / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- RBAC / Creating a Windows virtual machine
- RBAC roles
- calculating / Calculating RBAC roles
- Read-only (Read Only) role / Roles and Permissions
- report generation
- about / Generating reports
- Chargeback Utilization Analysis report / Chargeback Utilization Analysis
- Host Health History report / Host Health History
- Pool Optimization Performance History / Pool Optimization Performance History
- Pool Audit Trail report / Pool Audit Trail
- Pool Health report / Pool Health
- Pool Health History report / Pool Health History
- Pool Optimization History report / Pool Optimization History
- Virtual Machine Motion History report / Virtual Machine Motion History, Virtual Machine Performance History
- Request Activation Key / Activating a free edition
- resource pool, XenServer
- overview / XenServer resource pool overview
- requirements / XenServer resource pool requirements
- creating / Creating a XenServer resource pool
- host, removing / Removing a XenServer host from a resource pool
- Role-Based Access Control
- overview / Role Based Access Control overview
- roles
- assigning, to users / Assigning roles to users and groups
- assigning, methods / Assigning roles to users and groups
- assigning, to group / Assigning or changing a role to a user or group
- changing, to group / Assigning or changing a role to a user or group
S
- SAN
- about / Storage Area Network (SAN)
- Scheduled mode / Adjusting Optimization Mode
- SCSI / Storage overview
- SCSIid parameter / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- security ID (SID) / Cloning a virtual machine
- Select Roles dialog / Assigning roles to users and groups
- server parameter / Creating a XenServer resource pool
- Share Name / Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository
- Share Name parameter / Creating a new ISO Storage Repository
- Show Run History / Managing VM protection policies
- snapshot
- about / Managing snapshots
- VM snapshots / Managing snapshots
- creating / Creating a snapshot
- restoring, to previous state / Restoring a VM to a previous state
- deleting / Deleting a snapshot
- template, creating / Creating a template from a snapshot
- virtual machine, creating from / Creating a virtual machine from a snapshot
- exporting / Exporting a snapshot
- snapshot-uuid parameter / Exporting a snapshot
- software iSCSI Storage Repository
- about / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- creating / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- StorageLink Repository, creating / Creating a new StorageLink Repository, Summary
- ISO Storage Repository / Creating a new ISO Storage Repository, Managing Storage Repositories
- SR
- about / Storage Repository (SR)
- target storage / Storage Repository (SR)
- sr-create command / Creating a Storage Repository, Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository
- sr-forget command / Managing Storage Repositories
- sr-probe command / Adding a Storage Repository
- sr-uuid parameter / Managing Storage Repositories
- Start Order option / Configuring High Availability
- Status tab / Viewing the status of a Distributed vSwitch Controller
- storage heartbeat mechanism / Overview of High Availability
- StorageLink repository / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- storage objects
- about / Storage in XenServer
- VDIs / Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)
- PBDs / Physical Block Devices (PBDs)
- VBDs / Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)
- Storage pool parameter / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- storage protocols
- about / Network File System (NFS)
- storage repositories
- about / Creating Storage Repositories
- creating / Creating a Storage Repository
- NFS VHD Storage Repository, creating / Creating a new NFS VHD Storage Repository
- software iSCSI Storage Repository, creating / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- hardware HBA Storage Repository, creating / Creating a new hardware HBA Storage Repository
- StorageLink Repository, creating / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- ISO Storage Repository, creating / Creating a new ISO Storage Repository
- managing / Managing Storage Repositories
- SR, reattaching / Reattaching an SR
- adding / Adding a Storage Repository
- storage repository
- detaching / Managing Storage Repositories
- forget, using / Managing Storage Repositories
- destroying / Managing Storage Repositories
- Storage System page / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- storage types
- NFS VHD / Creating a Storage Repository
- Software iSCSI / Creating a Storage Repository
- Hardware HBA / Creating a Storage Repository
- StorageLink Technology / Creating a Storage Repository
- Window File Sharing (CIFS) / Creating a Storage Repository
- NFS ISO / Creating a Storage Repository
- subjects / Authenticating users with Active Directory
- supported guest virtual machines
- templates / Virtual machine templates
- sysprep tool / Cloning a virtual machine
T
- Take Snapshot button / Creating a snapshot
- Target Host parameter / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
U
- update
- applying, XenCenter used / Applying a hotfix or update using XenCenter
- applying, command line / Applying a hotfix or update using the command line
- Use CHAP authentication parameter / Creating a new StorageLink Repository
- Use CHAP parameter / Creating a new software iSCSI Storage Repository
- Use different user name parameter / Creating a new ISO Storage Repository
- user authentication
- Active Directory, using / Authenticating users with Active Directory
- Active Directory authentication / Understanding Active Directory authentication
- user management
- overview / User management overview
- username parameter / Creating a XenServer resource pool
- uuid parameter / Applying a hotfix or update using the command line
V
- vApps
- managing / Managing vApps
- about / Managing vApps
- exporting / Importing and exporting a vApp
- importing / Importing and exporting a vApp
- vApps management
- about / Managing vApps
- vApp, creating / Creating a vApp
- VBDs / Virtual Block Devices (VBDs)
- VDIs
- about / Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)
- features, Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) / Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)
- features, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) / Virtual Disk Images (VDIs)
- storage attributes / Storage attributes
- Verify manifest content checkbox / Importing a virtual machine from an OVF/OVA package
- VHD / Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- virtual machine
- managing / Managing virtual machines
- cloning / Cloning a virtual machine
- template, creating / Creating a template
- exporting / Importing and exporting virtual machines, Exporting a virtual machine
- importing / Importing and exporting virtual machines
- OVF / Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- importing, from OVF/OVA package / Importing a virtual machine from an OVF/OVA package
- disk images, importing / Importing disk images
- VMs, importing from XVA / Importing VMs from XVA
- memory overview / Virtual machine memory overview
- memory, managing / Managing virtual machine memory
- overview / Overview of backup and virtual machine protection
- recovering / Protection and recovery of virtual machines
- VM protection policy, creating / Creating a VM protection policy
- VM protection policies, managing / Managing VM protection policies
- Virtual Machine Administrator (VM Admin) role / Roles and Permissions
- Virtual Machine Motion History report / Virtual Machine Motion History, Virtual Machine Performance History
- Virtual Machine Operator (VM Operator) role / Roles and Permissions
- Virtual Machine Power Administrator (VM Power Admin) role / Roles and Permissions
- Virtual Machine Protection and Recovery feature / Protection and recovery of virtual machines
- virtual machines
- overview / Overview of virtual machinesvirtual machinesoverview
- devices / Overview of virtual machinesvirtual machinesoverview
- XenServer Tools / XenServer Tools
- creating, ways / Overview of virtual machines creation
- virtual machines, creating
- VM templates, using / Using VM templates
- physical machine, creating / Converting a physical machine to virtual
- exported VM, importing / Importing an exported VM
- existing VM, cloning / Cloning an existing VM
- about / Creating virtual machines
- Windows virtual machine, creating / Creating a Windows virtual machine
- XenServer Tools package, installing / Installing the XenServer Tools package
- VLANs
- about / Managing VLANs
- managing / Managing VLANs
- virtual machines, connecting to / Connecting a virtual machine to a VLAN
- vm-listxe command / Managing virtual machine memory
- vm-uuid parameter / Deleting a snapshot
- vm-vcpu-hotplug command / Overview of virtual machinesvirtual machinesoverview
- VMDK / Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- vm parameter / Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine
- VM protection policies
- VM, assigning / Assigning a VM to an existing VM protection policy
- virtual machine, recovering / Recovering a virtual machine from snapshots
- VM snapshots
- disk-only / Managing snapshots
- quiesced / Managing snapshots
- disk and memory / Managing snapshots
- VSS / Managing snapshots
W
- where device parameter / Storage overview
- Windows virtual machine
- creating, xe CLI used / Creating a Windows virtual machine using xe CLI
- Windows virtual machine creating, xe CLI used
- about / Creating a Windows virtual machine using xe CLI
- Windows machine, creating / Creating a Windows machine
- virtual disk, renaming / Renaming the virtual disk
- disk, resizing / Resizing the disk
- DVD drive, installing on virtual machine / Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine
- WLB
- about / Overview of Workload Balancing
- overview / Overview of Workload Balancing
- virtual Appliance, installing / Installing Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
- pool, connecting to / Installing Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
- configuring / Configuring Workload Balancing
- settings, managing / Managing Workload Balancing settings
- performance, monitoring / Monitoring performances with Workload Balancing
- WLB setting management
- about / Managing Workload Balancing settings
- Optimization Mode, adjusting / Adjusting Optimization Mode
- WLB automation, adjusting / Adjusting Workload Balancing automation
- critical thresholds, modifying / Changing Critical Thresholds and Metric Weightings
- metric weightings, modifying / Changing Critical Thresholds and Metric Weightings
- hosts, excluding / Excluding hosts from recommendations
- automated recommendations, controlling / Controlling automated recommendations
- Workload Reports screen / Generating reports
- World Wide Name (WWN) / Fibre Channel (FC)
X
- xe command / Managing virtual machine memory
- xe command role-list / Assigning or changing a role to a user or group
- xe command xe vm-start / Installing a DVD drive on a virtual machine
- xe host-set-cpu-features command / Creating a heterogeneous XenServer resource pool
- XenCenter
- advanced storage features / Creating Storage Repositories
- XenCenter terminology
- XenConvert
- latest release, downloading / Converting a physical machine
- Xenser storage
- XenServer
- resource pool, overview / XenServer resource pool overview
- homogenous pool / XenServer resource pool requirements
- licensing / Licensing XenServer
- versions / User management overview
- roles / Roles and Permissions
- Pool Administrator (Pool Admin) / Roles and Permissions
- Pool Operator (Pool Operator) / Roles and Permissions
- Virtual Machine Power Administrator (VM Power Admin) / Roles and Permissions
- Virtual Machine Administrator (VM Admin) / Roles and Permissions
- Virtual Machine Operator (VM Operator) / Roles and Permissions
- Read-only (Read Only) / Roles and Permissions
- permissions / Definitions of RBAC Roles and Permissions
- storage overview / Storage overview
- Storage overview / Storage overview
- storage / Storage in XenServer
- storage objects / Storage in XenServer
- SR / Storage Repository (SR)
- multipathing / Storage multipathing
- virtual machines / Overview of virtual machinesvirtual machinesoverview
- memory overview / XenServer memory overview
- networking / XenServer networking
- snapshot / Managing snapshots
- XenServer 6.0 / Activating a non-free edition
- XenServer environment
- backing up / Backing up your XenServer environment
- XenServer host
- removing, from resource pool / Removing a XenServer host from a resource pool
- XenServer hosts pool
- preparing / Preparing a XenServer host for maintenance
- XenServer license
- free edition, activating / Activating a free edition
- no-free edition, activating / Activating a non-free edition
- assigning / Activating a non-free edition
- XenServer networking
- about / XenServer networking
- components, physical network interfaces (NIC) / XenServer networking
- components, virtual interfaces / XenServer networking
- components, networks / XenServer networking
- initial network configuration / Initial network configuration
- network types / Network types
- managing / Managing networking
- configuration, managing / Changing networking configuration
- XenServer networking configuration
- modifying / Changing networking configuration
- virtual networks, modifying / Adding and modifying virtual networks
- virtual networks, adding / Adding and modifying virtual networks
- management interfaces, configuring / Configuring management interfaces
- XenServer pool / Installing Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
- XenServer storage / Storage overview
- architectures / Storage technologies and protocols
- DAS / Direct Attached Storage
- SAN / Storage Area Network (SAN)
- NAS / Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- protocol / Storage protocols
- XenServer Tools
- about / XenServer Tools
- xe pbd-unplug command / Managing Storage Repositories
- xe pool-join command / Creating a heterogeneous XenServer resource pool
- xe snapshot-list command / Exporting a snapshot
- xe subject-role-remove command / Assigning or changing a role to a user or group
- xe vdi-param-set command / Renaming the virtual disk
- xe vdi-resize command / Resizing the disk
- XVA
- importing / Importing VMs from XVA