Download XenServer 5.6 Administrator's Guide & Virtual Machine Installation guide.
XenServer 5.6 Virtual Machine Installation Guide
Published June 2010,1.1 Edition


This document is a system administrator's guide to XenServer™, the platform virtualization solution from
Citrix®. It describes the tasks involved in configuring a XenServer deployment-- in particular, how to set up
storage, networking and resource pools, and how to administer XenServer hosts using the xe command
line interface (CLI).
This section summarizes the rest of the guide so that you can find the information you need. The following
topics are covered:
• XenServer hosts and resource pools
• XenServer storage configuration
• XenServer network configuration
• XenServer workload balancing
• XenServer backup and recovery
• Monitoring and managing XenServer
• XenServer command line interface
• XenServer troubleshooting
• XenServer resource allocation guidelines
XenServer 5.6 Administrator's Guide
Published May 2010,1.0 Edition


This document is a guide to creating Virtual Machines with XenServer™, the platform virtualization solution
from Citrix®. It describes the various methods of getting VMs up and running on XenServer hosts for each
of the supported operating systems.
This section summarizes the rest of the guide so that you can find the information you need. The following
topics are covered:
• General information about creating VMs
• Creating Windows VMs
• Creating Linux VMs
• Updating VMs
• Creating and using ISO images of vendor media for installing VMs
• Setting up a network repository of vendor media for installing VMs
• Troubleshooting problems with VMs

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