During the installation of your XenServer, you only configure basic settings for your management Network Interface Card (NIC). Further, and maybe even more complex, configuration of your NICs can be set with the XenCenter GUI or with the xe CommandLine…
Upgrade Citrix XenServer 5.5 to 5.6 FP 1
With the release of XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 it was due time to upgrade my Homelab to the latest version. So eagerly I started to burn the downloaded iso files for the install and linux supplement pack CDs and…
Wake on LAN settings for XenServer 5.5
One of the create extra features on most NICs nowadays is the support for Wake On LAN. An option to wake up your system by sending a signal to your Network Interface Card (NIC). This signal can be a so…
Install the XenServer PowerShell Snapin on a 64-bits Windows OS
As I’m discovering the CLI options I can revert to for scripting automated jobs for the XenServer 5.5 environment, I wanted to check out the new PowerShell Snapin provided by Citrix. After downloading and installing the XS-PS Windows installer I…
Configure a NFS Share on the Iomega StorCenter
The only NAS experience I’ve had so far has been with a Linksys NAS, providing nothing more than SMB protocol fileshares. The SMB fileshare protocol makes the Linksys sufficient enough for file sharing in a home network but definately not…