Setup Guide

Contents 5
Moving an SR Between Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Resizing An SR After Changing the Size
of An LVM-Based Storage Volume
. . . . . . . . . . . 60
6 Recovering the
Citrix XenServer Host
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Database Backup From XenServer
Local Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using the Recovery Media
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Restoring the XenServer Database
. . . . . . . . . . . 65
Recovering XenServer After
a Board Replacement
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Resetting the Root Password
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Updating the XenServer
Image to A New Version
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7 Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
High Availability Configuration and
IP Storage Traffic Segregation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Scripted Backup of XenServer Host Database
. . . . . 68
Using Storage Array Snapshots for
LVM-Based Storage Repositories
. . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Shut Down VMs Before a Snapshot
. . . . . . . . 70
Suspend VMs Before a Snapshot
. . . . . . . . . 70
Snapshot a volume when VMs are running
. . . . 71
Backup the VM Metadata
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71