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Chapter 3. Installing XenServer
Any XenServer network, from the simplest to the most complex deployment, is made up of one or more
XenServer Hosts, each running some number of VMs, and one or more workstations running XenCenter
to administer the XenServer Hosts.
In order to create resource pools and enable XenMotion (live migration of VMs), a means of shared storage
also needs to be deployed on the network. This version of the XenServer product family supports Fibre
Channel, NetApp filers, LVM over iSCSI, and NFS shared storage.
This chapter describes installing XenServer Host software on physical servers, installing XenCenter on
Windows workstations, and connecting them to form the infrastructure for a network of Virtual Machines.
The first sections describe the installation of XenServer Host and XenCenter, which are common to all
deployments. The following sections describe several common installation and deployment scenarios and
provide information that is specific to each scenario.
Installers for both the XenServer Host and XenCenter are on the installation media. The installation media
also includes:
• a set of XenServer product documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
• a P2V tool for creating VM templates from an existing instances of supported Linux distributions running
on physical servers. See the XenServer Virtual Machine Installation Guide for details.
• a tool for restoring a backed-up XenServer Host control domain filesystem. See Section B.7.2, “Backing
up XenServer Hosts” for details.
3.1. Installing the XenServer Host
The XenServer Host consists of a Xen-enabled Linux operating system, a management agent, VM templates, and a local storage repository reserved for VMs. The XenServer Host must be installed on a dedicated 64-bit x86 server. XenServer is not supported in a dual-boot configuration with any other operating
system.
You can install the XenServer Host from the installation CDs or set up a network-accessible TFTP server to
boot from via PXE. For details about setting up a TFTP server for PXE-booting the installer, see Appendix C,
PXE installation of XenServer Host.
Note
Do not install any other operating system in a dual-boot configuration with the XenServer Host; this
is an unsupported configuration.
The main installation CD contains the basic packages to set up the XenServer Host on a physical host, and
to create Windows VMs by using the Windows installation CDs. The XenServer package also contains a
separate CD containing support for creating Linux VMs (including complete built-in distributions of Debian
Sarge and Etch), and six CDs containing source code for the included open-source software.
If you want to install Linux VMs, be sure to
1. download the Linux Pack ISO
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