July 4, 2014

How to Change the Pool Master in Citrix Xenserver

Cloud Infrastructure,

In Xenserver pooled environment, if the pool master node goes unresponsive due to some reason. We will not be able to access the slave nodes and its corresponding VM's from Xencenter. At this time, if we are able to manually SSH into the pool master. We can execute the following commands to make a slave…

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June 10, 2014

Steps to Fix VDI Not Available Error in Citrix Xenserver

Cloud Infrastructure,

During a Reboot of a VM at some unavoidable circumstances, the Startup logs might end up with "VDI not available" error. Follow the below steps to fix this: Determine the UUID of the Storage Repository and the VDI that’s exhibiting the issue

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May 30, 2014

How to Fix – When Xenserver Host Stuck in Maintenance Mode

Cloud Infrastructure,

In this post you will see how to fix Xenserver Host Stuck in Maintenance Mode. Whenever we restart the xapi service (using either service xapi restart, or xe-toolstack-restart) the API will work for about 30 seconds and then it will stop working and any command we run from that server will show something like this:

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