XD10116 Installation Guide for Citrix XenServer 5

8/3/2019 XD10116 Installation Guide for Citrix XenServer 5

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See http://xtravirt.com/xd10025 or the XenServer 5

install guide. This guide covers XenServer 5.5.

1.0 IntroductionA XenServer installation requires a minimum o two

separate, physical computers; one to be the XenServer host

and one to run the XenCenter management application.

XenServer is a 64-bit, x86 server-class platorm devoted

to hosting multiple Virtual Machines (VM); XenCenter is

a Windows client application that manages XenServer

hosts. While the XenServer machine must be dedicated

to the task o hosting VMs, XenCenter can run on any

general-purpose machine, alongside other applications.

This Xtravirt guide details the process o perorming a

basic installation o Citrix XenServer 5.5 and XenCenter 5.5,

plus the registration and licensing o the XenServer host.

2.0 Pre-RequisitesConguration inormation:

Citrix XenServer installation media (Base Pack and

Linux Pack)

Citrix XenCenter installation le

A ully qualied domain name (FQDN) or the

XenServer host

TCP/IP conguration inormation or the XenServer

management interace DNS server IP address/es or the XenServer host

(optional)

NTP server IP address/es or the XenServer host

(optional)

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Illustration 1-1: XenServer architecture

white paper

Installation Guide or Citrix XenServer 5.5

Title: Installation Guide or Citrix XenServer 5.5

Author(s): Xtravirt (Paul Buckle)

Target Audience: Technical - Novice

Current Revision: 1.0 (Jul 2009)

First Published: Jul 2009

Product(s): Citrix XenServer 5.5

UID: XD10116

Content Overview:

Installation o XenServer 5.5

Installation o XenCenter 5.5

Registration and Licensing

Guest OSGuest OS

Guest OSGuest OS

Hardware

Xen Hypervisor

XenTM Hypercall API

Virtualization Stack

Device

Drivers

Xen Tool

Stack


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XenServer system requirements:

Processor One or more 64-bit x86 CPUs, 1.5 GHz minimum,

2 GHz or aster, multicore CPU recommended

(maximum o 32 CPU cores).

Windows VMs can be created only on XenServer

hosts equipped with Intel VT-enabled or AMD-V

CPUs and this eature must be enabled in the BIOS.

It is possible your BIOS might have virtualisation

support disabled. Consult your BIOS documentation

or more details.

To support VMs running supported paravirtualised

Linux, a standard 64-bit x86-based system with one

or more CPUs is required. Linux VMs do not require

XenServer hosts that are equipped with Intel VT-

enabled or AMD-V CPUs.

Memory 1 GB minimum, 2 GB or more recommended.

Disk Locally attached storage (PATA, SATA, SCSI) with

16 GB o disk space minimum, 60 GB o disk space

recommended.

Network 100 Mbit/s or aster network interace card (NIC).

A gigabit NIC is recommended or aster P2V and

export/import data transers and or live relocation

o VMs.

XenCenter system requirements:

Operating

System

Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows

Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1 or SP2 with .NET

ramework 2.0 or above

Processor 750 MHz minimum, 1 GHz or aster recommended

Memory 1 GB minimum, 2 GB or more recommended

Disk 100 MB minimum

Network 100 MB or aster NIC

3.0 Installation Process

3.1 XenServerThis procedure assumes that installation is rom a local

CD and that Citrix XenServer has not been installed on

the machine previously.

On the machine that will be the XenServer host, boot

rom the XenServer CD.

1. At the Welcome to XenServer screen, press

Enter.

2. The installer will initialise and detect the host

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3. At the Select Keymap screen, select the required

keymap and clickOk. In this example, ukwill be

used.

4. At the Welcome to XenServer screen, select

Install or upgrade XenServer Host and clickOk.

5. At the Welcome to XenServer Setup screen, click

Ok.

6. At the End User License Agreement screen,

review the Citrix License Agreement and click

Accept EULA.

7. I the machine has more than one suitable disk,

the Select Primary Disk screen appears. In this

example, the local disk will be used. Select /dev/

cciss/c0d0 and clickOk.

Note: The name o the local disk ID will vary between dierent

machine vendors.

8. I the machine has more than one suitable disk, the

Guest Storage screen appears. In this example,

only the local disk will be used.

Note: The remote SAN disks would typically be used or VM

storage and that their use can also be congured ater installation.

Select /dev/cciss/c0d0 and clickOk.

Note: The name o the local disk ID will vary between dierent

machine vendors.





9. At the Select Installation Source screen, select

Local media and clickOk.

10. At the Linux Pack screen, i the XenServer will

host Linux VMs, clickYes.

Note: The Linux Pack can be also be added ater installation.

11. At the Veriy Installation Source screen, i the CD

has not previously been used to install XenServer,

it is prudent to veriy the installation source. In this

example, select Skip verifcation and clickOk.

12. At the Set Password screen, enter the required

root password twice and clickOk.

13. I more than one NIC is available, the Networking

screen appears. Select which NIC to use or the

management interace. Typically this is the rst

NIC, eth0, but any o them can be used. In this

example, select eth0 and clickOk.

14. At the Networking screen, select Static

confguration, enter the required details in the IP

Address, Subnet maskand Gateway elds and

clickOk.

Note: While the management interace can be congured to use

DHCP, it is recommend to use a static conguration.





15. At the Hostname and DNS Confguration screen,

enter the required ully qualied hostname in the

Hostname eld, replacing the auto-generated

one. Enter the required DNS TCP/IP address/es in

the DNS Server eld/s and clickOk.

16. At the Select Time Zone screen, select the

appropriate time zone geographical area and click

Ok. In this example, Europe has been selected.

Note: XenServer assumes the machines BIOS time setting is the

current time in UTC.

17. At the Select Time Zone screen, select the

appropriate time zone city and click Ok. In this

example, London has been selected.

18. At the System Time screen, i use o NTP is

required, select Using NTP, clickOkand enter the

relevant inormation on the subsequent screen. In

this example, select Manual time entry and click

Ok.

19. At the Confrm Installation screen, all the

requirement installation parameters have been

collected. ClickInstall XenServer.

20. Some nal preparation or the installation will be

perormed.





21. The installation rom the CD will proceed.

22. I the Linux Pack was elected to be installed, the

New Media screen appears. Install the relevant

CD, let it settle and clickOk.

23. The installer will examine the CD and conrm the

correct one, Linux Pack, has been provided. I the

CD has not been used to install XenServer beore it

would be prudent to veriy the installation source.

In this example, clickUse media.

24. The installation rom the CD will proceed.

25. As the installation nears completion, the Set Local

Time screen appears. Enter the current date and

time and clickOk.

Note: I NTP is being used, this prompt will not appear.

26. At the Installation Complete screen, remove the

CD and clickOk.





27. The installer will initiate a system reboot.

28. The XenServer boot progress is refected in a

progress bar on the loader screen.

29. When the Confguration screen appears,

XenServer has nished loading.

3.2 Install XenCenterThis procedure assumes that installation is rom a local

CD and that Citrix XenCenter has not been installed on

the machine previously.

1. On the machine that will run XenCenter, run

FREE_XenServer-5.5.0-XenCenter.msi .

2. At the Welcome to the XenCenter Setup Wizard

screen, clickNext.

3. At the Custom Setup screen, clickNext.

4. At the Destination Folder screen, accept the

deault installation path, select All Users and clickNext.





5. At the Ready to install XenCenter screen, click

Next.

6. At the Completed the XenCenter Setup Wizard

screen, clickFinish.

3.3 Register and License XenServerWhile XenServer is ree, it still requires the application

o a license. Beore this can be done, register XenServer

with XenCenter as described below.

1. Start XenCenter, right click the XenCenter object

in the let hand pane and select Add.

2. At the Add New Server screen, enter the

hostname or IP address o the XenServer host

in the Hostname eld, the account root in the

User name eld and the root password in the

Password eld and clickConnect.

3. XenCenter will attempt to connect to the

XenServer host.

4. At the License Manager screen that will appear

ater a successul connection, check the XenServer

host and clickActivate.

5. The Citrix XenServer Activation request orm

will load into your deault browser. Complete the

elds as required and clickRequest Activation.





6. Notication that the license le has been e-mailed

to you will be displayed. The browser window can

now be closed, but leave XenCenter running.

7. On receipt o the e-mail, double click the license.

xslic attachment and elect to open it. At the

Install License Key screen, select the XenServer

host and clickInstall.

8. Select Tools -> License Manager. At the License

Manager screen, conrm the XenServer host is

now licensed or 12 months and clickClose.

Note: At the end o the 12 month period, you will be promptedto re-activate the license.

9. ClickHelp -> Check or Updates. The XenServer

Updates page will load into your deault browser

and advise i any XenServer or XenCenter updates

are available.

4.0 Resolution/Common Errors

1. XenServer installer repeatedly reboots

The XenServer installer does not progress beyond

the initialise installer and detect hardwarestage without repeatedly rebooting.

Solution: This is likely to be because the machine does

not have at least 784MB o memory installed.

2. Hardware virtualization assist support is not

available

The ollowing screen appears ater the Accept End

User License Agreement screen.

Solution: This is because either the machine is not

equipped with Intel VT-enabled or AMD-V CPUs or

because the eature is turned o in the BIOS. I the

CPUs do not support this eature then the XenServer

installation can continue but it will not be able to host

Windows VMs. I the CPUs do support this eature and

it is to be used to host Windows VMs then enable

virtualization assist in the machine BIOS and restart the

installation process.

This concludes the white paper.




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Reerences1. Citrix XenServer 5 install guide, http://xtravirt.com/xd10025

Useul Links1. XenServer Documentation, http://www.citrix.com/lang/

English/lp/lp_1688622.asp

2. XenServer Downloads,http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/

lp_1688615.asp

TagsCitrix, XenServer, XenCenter, install guide, deploy, how-to



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