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You're reading from Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide Deploy and manage XenServer in your enterprise to create, integrate, manage and automate a virtual datacenter quickly and easily with this book and ebook.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849686167

Length 364 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Xenserver

Concepts

Servers

Author (1):

Daniele Tosatto

Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

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Preface

1. Introducing XenServer Resource Pools FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing User Authentication

3. Managing Storage Repositories

4. Creating Virtual Machines

5. Managing Virtual Machines

6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory

7. Managing XenServer Networking

8. Managing High Availability and Snapshots

9. Protecting and Monitoring XenServer

Supported Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Templates

Applying Updates and Hotfixes

Index

Creating heterogeneous resource pools is most easily done with XenCenter. XenCenter will automatically suggest using CPU masking whenever possible.

To add a heterogeneous XenServer host to a resource pool using the xe CLI use the following procedure:

Find the CPU features of the Pool Master by running the following command:
```
xe host-get-cpu-features
```
On the new server, run the xe host-set-cpu-features command and copy and paste the Pool Master's features into the features parameter. For example:
```
xe host-set-cpu-features features= <pool_master's_cpu_features>
xe host-set-cpu-features features=17bae3ff-bfebfbff-00000001-28100800
```
Restart the new server.
Run the xe pool-join command on the new server to join the pool.
To return a server with masked CPU features back to its normal capabilities, run the following command:
```
xe host-reset-cpu-features
```

To display a list of all properties of the CPUs in a host, run the xe host-cpu-info command.