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Xen Cloud Platform Installation Guide
Release 0.1
0.1
Published October 2009 0.1 Edition

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Xen Cloud Platform Installation Guide

Xen Cloud Platform Installation Guide: Release 0.1
Published October 2009 Copyright © 2009 Xen.org
Xen®, Xen.org®, Xen Cloud Platform™, and logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Xen.org in the United States and/or other countries. Othercompany or product names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. This product contains an embodiment of the following patent pending intellectual property of Xen.org: 1. United States Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application Serial Number 11/487,945, filed on July 17, 2006, and entitled “Using Writeable Page Tables for Memory Address Translation in aHypervisor Environment”. 2. United States Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application Serial Number 11/879,338, filed on July 17, 2007, and entitled “Tracking Current Time on Multiprocessor Hosts and Virtual Machines”.

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Contents
1. Introducing Xen Cloud Platform ........................................................................ About this document........................................................................................ How this Guide relates to other documentation .................................................. New features in Xen Cloud Platform 0.1 .......................................................... 5 5 5 5

2. System Requirements ........................................................................................ 7 Xen Cloud Platform hostsystem requirements .................................................. 7 VM support ...................................................................................................... 8 3. Installing Xen Cloud Platform ............................................................................ 9 Installing the Xen Cloud Platform host ..............................................................9 Installation and deployment scenarios ............................................................. 14 Xen Cloud Platform hosts with local storage ............................................ 14 Xen Cloud Platform hosts with shared NFS storage ................................. 14 Xen Cloud Platform hosts with shared iSCSI storage ................................ 16 4. Updating and upgrading XenCloud Platform ................................................... Rolling pool upgrade between major versions .................................................. Backup .................................................................................................. Performing a rolling pool upgrade ........................................................... Upgrading a single server.............................................................................. Reinstalling the same version ......................................................................... Preparing Xen Cloud Platform hosts for maintenance ....................................... Applying updates ........................................................................................... Applying updates using theCLI .............................................................. Backing up and restoring Xen Cloud Platform hosts and VMs ........................... Backing up Virtual Machine metadata ..................................................... Backing up Xen Cloud Platform hosts ..................................................... Backing up VMs.................................................................................... A. Troubleshooting ................................................................................................. B. PXE installation of Xen Cloud Platform host ........................................................ Setting up the PXE boot environment ............................................................. Creating an answerfile for unattended PXE...