Getting Started Tutorial: Building An Open Source XCP-NG & Xen Orchestra Virtualization Lab

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[akurenda]

*Vsphere 7 gets realeased*
VmWare: We've changed our pricing models.

Tom: Hey kids, want to learn how to do your home lab and have backups for free?

[Nebol]

You seem to have skipped where you added the XCP-NG server to XOA?

[adzza]

I have tom to thank for me discovering xcp-ng. I've used every hypervisor and I have to say this is by far my favourite, it's free, and just plain awesome as far as features go.

[geoffhalsey]

The interface of Xen Orchestra looks a lot easier to use than the Proxmox equivalent, especially dealing with networking and vlans.

[Dazdigo]

I would recommend running Xen Orchestra in a Docker container instead of natively since there is no point it running it all of the time and you can double up having more management containers run at the same time on the system such as True Command to manage your FreeNAS servers as well.

[KuroganeX]

Congratulation Tom, You literally made me switch from proxmox to XCP-NG & Xen Orchestra that networking totally sold me. Thanks a lot. Please make more videos regarding XCP-NG.

[lunac]

I've been running XCP-NG on a Watchguard XTM800 firewall hardware... for about 1 year. all good :)

[anthonydefallo]

Tom literally I have been wanting to do this forever. Thank you!

[Pro-cheeseburger]

another great vid, my VMUG license runs out in a month and I'll probably be switching over to XCP-NG, I don't really need the features of VCenter or VMware and would rather not pay another $200 for home lab use.

[blainej]

Thanks for the informative video; been using XCP a while and picked up on a few protips; thanks. Followed video a bit back on building Xen from source. It works out nice doing delta backups to NAS and NAS to Google Drive encrypted with Duplicati. Thanks!

[alphabanks]

This seems much more put together than what I've seen with Proxmox.

[amp]

Hi, would it be possible for you to do a video on how to enable HTTPS for Xen Orchestra, please? I think I remember you mentioning on another video that you set it up on your lab network using an Apache proxy, but it would be helpful for me (and probably other people too) if you could provide a tutorial on that process. I recently moved from using XCP-ng Center to Xen Orchestra for managing my home lab, but I haven't yet gone through the process of securing it with HTTPS. I know it's easy to mess things up when it comes to security, so I'm worried about messing some configuration up. Thanks!

[markstanchin]

Hi, I would like to set this up can you give suggestions on the hardware spec and the best places to purchase. Looking to Virtualize 8 PC's plus FreeNAS. Looking for the sweet spot on price vs performance vs energy cost. Dell 710 vs 720 vs 730 and which processors make the most sense. Thanks.

[chrisumali]

Thank you for the walk-thru, demo and info. It helped me setup and migrate from vmware to xen. Have a great day

[ralmslb]

23:50 Would love a quick tutorial just around the Private Networks and enabling the SDN Controller.
My installation from sources, even though had all plugins selected, half of them are disabled by default requiring configuration.
I'm taking the lazy route regarding the SDN controller and it should in practice just create the certificates by itself with just a simple path, but it doesn't.

[cldpt]

you use the same slack notification sound as I do, took me a while to figure it out at 34:39 :D

[netoeli]

the networking part was very helpful, thanks tom

[HisLoveArmy]

Random learning moment. Never new how to download a file into Linux. Wget then URL.. nice. Haha. Windows guy here but learning! Thanks!

[sweetsorrow]

This is not a beginner Tutorial - this tutorial was not step by step but rather unorganized steps and for someone with prior experience with XOA. You should do a little more organization like step 1, step2 and what is the end goal etc. thanks

[Kolohekat]

I like Toms videos - I learned plenty - I run a pfsense BSD firewall and Do camera stuff and linux stuff. The only thing is, he thinks Detroit Coneys are better than Flints. :)