Installation guide

Installing XenServer

Note

To be part of a resource pool, the XenServer Hosts and the server or servers providing the shared

NFS storage need to have static IP addresses.

Procedure 3.5. Basic procedure

1. Install XenServer Host software on server(s)

2. Install XenCenter on workstation(s)

3. Set up the NFS server

4. Run XenCenter and connect to XenServer Hosts

5. Choose one XenServer Host as a pool master and join other XenServer Hosts to its pool.

6. Create an SR on the NFS share at the pool level

For this procedure, a server running a typical Linux distribution is assumed as the NFS server. Consult your

Linux distribution documentation for further information.

Procedure 3.6. Set up NFS share on NFS server

1. Check to see if the portmap daemon is installed and running:

# chkconfig --list portmap

portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

Note that in the preceding example, runlevels 3, 4, and 5 say "on". That means that at boot, for runlevels

3, 4 and 5, the portmap daemon is started automatically. If either 3, 4 or 5 say "off," turn them on with

the following command:

chkconfig portmap on

2. Check to see if the NFS daemon is installed and running:

# chkconfig --list nfs

nfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

If either 3, 4 or 5 say "off," turn them on with the following command:

chkconfig nfs on

3. Make a directory for the shared storage to live in:

mkdir /<vm_share_dir>