Manual

Citrix XenServer ® 5.6 Feature Pack 1 Quick Start Guide

Published Thursday, 24 March 2011 1.3 Edition

Citrix XenServer ® 5.6 Feature Pack 1 Quick Start Guide Copyright © 2011 Citrix Systems. Inc. All Rights Reserved. Version: 5.6 Feature Pack 1 Citrix, Inc. 851 West Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 United States of America Disclaimers This document is furnished "AS IS."Citrix, Inc. disclaims all warranties regarding the contents of this document, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. This document may contain technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors. Citrix, Inc. reserves the right to revise the information in this document at any time without notice. This document and thesoftware described in this document constitute confidential information of Citrix, Inc. and its licensors, and are furnished under a license from Citrix, Inc. Citrix Systems, Inc., the Citrix logo, Citrix XenServer and Citrix XenCenter, are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and inother countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. Trademarks Citrix® XenServer ® XenCenter ®

Contents
Welcome ............................................................................................................ 1 Installing XenServer and XenCenter .................................................................. 3
Installingthe XenServer Host .............................................................................................. 3 Installing XenCenter ............................................................................................................ 5 Connecting XenCenter to the XenServer Host ...................................................................... 5 Activating XenServer................................................................................................... 6

Creating Virtual Machines ................................................................................. 7
Creating a Windows VM ..................................................................................................... 7 Making VM Templates...................................................................................................... 11 Creating a VM Template from an Existing VM ............................................................ 11 Creating a VM Template from a VM Snapshot ............................................................ 11 Creating VMs from a VM Template .................................................................................... 12Creating a Pool of XenServer Hosts ................................................................ 13
Creating a Pool ................................................................................................................. 13 Setting Up Shared Storage for the Pool .............................................................................. 14 Copying VMs to Shared Storage................................................................................ 15 Migrating Running VMs between Hosts in a Pool ............................................................... 17

A. System Requirements ................................................................................. 19
System Requirements....................................................................................................... 19 XenServer Host System Requirements ........................................................................ 19 XenCenter System Requirements ............................................................................... 20 Supported Guest Operating Systems .......................................................................... 20 Pool Requirements...