XenServer 6.2, a new step forward!

In a previous published article (here, in Dutch) i talked about XenServer 6.0 and new features in it. Last week Citrix released XenServer 6.2, which added features and fixes, but also gives end-users who use the free version access to the complete functionality, including HA and Disaster Recovery! This is great news, but are there downsides to it?

Only one, and that is you have to manually patch if there are hot-fixes available. Not so much of a downside i would say, as you can use the patch description below:

1. Download any available patches to a local directory.


2. Upload the patch using:




• xe -s <master host> -u <Username> -p <Password> patch-upload file-name=<.xsupdate file>
  A UUID value will be returned to be used on the host itself.




3. Free the master host movin all the VM's to other hosts
   


4. Apply the patch, start on the master host:




• xe host-list (note the host-uuid of the master)


• xe patch-apply host-uuid=<UUID of the master host> uuid=<patch UUID>

The patch UUID can also be retrieved using xe patch-list on the host itself.