Tweet Hello! We thought it would be important to share this information as it might be interesting to someone who wants to replicate the same VPS across many instances in order to create a farm of web servers (for example). This uses very similar concepts to our LVM XEN backup post a while back. Step [...] Read More
Migrate from Linux to Xen with Rsync
Tweet I decided to write this little guide to provide the relatively simple steps needed to migrate your linux system to a Xen (HVM) virtual instance. It is assumed that on your source and destination boxes, that you only have one root “/” partition. If you partitioned out your file system differently, you will have [...] Read More
Creating a Xen template
Tweet One way to increase the efficiencies of Xen based systems is to utilize templates. VMware talks about this in their whitepaper for ESX2 best practices. With Xen, you have to create your own. Here is a straight forward guide for how to do it. 1. Bootstrap a DomU named -tpl (e.g. centos4-tpl). I recommend [...] Read More
How to backup Xen with Logical Volume Mounts ; Works with HyperVM, SolusVM, FluidVM and More
Through our research and implementation of many Xen environments, it has become necessary to develop a reliable and secure method for backing up our Xen instances that are mounted on Logical Volumes (LVM). Read More
Migrate FreeBSD to Xen
There seems to be a lot of tutorials with respect to how you can dump/restore FreeBSD implementations. However, none of them appear to be all encompassing what is actually required from start to finish during the entire process. Read More