Xen XCP 1.0

Xen XCP 1.0

Guideline

1. What is Xen ?
2. What is Xen XCP ?
3. Who makes Xen XCP ?
4. Who is using Xen XCP ?

1. What is  Xen ?

The Xen hypervisor is a layer of software running directly on computer hardware replacing the operating system thereby allowing the computer hardware to run multiple guest operating systems concurrently. Support for x86, x86-64, Itanium, Power PC, and ARM processors allow the Xen hypervisor to run on a wide variety of computing devices and currently supports Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, and other common operating systems as guests running on the hypervisor.

The Xen.org community develops and maintains the Xen hypervisor as a free solution licensed under the GNU General Public License.

2. What is Xen XCP ?

The meaning about XCP = Xen Cloup Plattform

Features

• Is an open source enterprise-ready server virtualization.
• Is a cloud computing platform.
• Consolidates server workloads.
• Enables power-saving.
• Enables cooling-saving.
• Decrease management costs.
• Hardware optimization.
• Improve IT realibility

Architecture

2. Who makes Xen XCP ?

Xen XCP use the Citrix Xen Hypervisor. Xen was developed by Citrix. Xen XCP is an open server virtualization powered by Citrix. You can use it as free there is not necesary any license.

3. Who is using Xen XCP ?

• Cloud providers
• Hosting services
• Data centers

Pictures from Xen XCP ISO Installation

Easy to install.

Setup a local network name server using Bind9

Bind9 Configuration files to deploy a local network name server alias "thor.loc":

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

zone "thor.loc" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.thor.loc";
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.1.168.192";
};

/etc/bind/db.thor.loc

$TTL 24h
thor.loc.                 IN      SOA     DNS-01.thor.loc. root.thor.loc. (
                                1               ; Serial
                                3h              ; Refresh
                                30m             ; Retry
                                7d              ; Expire
                                3h)             ; Minimum TTL
; Nameservers
thor.loc.                           IN      NS    192.168.1.103.

; Hosts
Web-01.thor.loc.           IN      A       192.168.1.100
Sql-01.thor.loc.              IN      A       192.168.1.101
File-01.thor.loc.             IN      A       192.168.1.102
DNS-01.thor.loc.           IN      A       192.168.1.103
Mail-01.thor.loc.            IN      A       192.168.1.104
Gateway-01.thor.loc.    IN      A       192.168.1.105
Debian-01.thor.loc.      IN      A       192.168.1.200

/etc/bind/db.1.168.192 

$TTL 24h

1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA DNS-01.thor.loc. root.thor.loc (
                                                          1             ; serial number
                                                          3h          ; refresh time
                                                          30m      ; retry time
                                                          7d         ; expire time
                                                         3h)        ; negative caching ttl

; Nameservers

1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.               IN        NS        192.168.1.103.

; Hosts
100.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      Web-01.thor.loc.
101.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      Sql-01.thor.loc.
102.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      File-01.thor.loc.
103.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      DNS-01.thor.loc.
104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      Mail-01.thor.loc.
105.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      Gateway-01.thor.loc.
200.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN        PTR      Debian-01.thor.loc.

/etc/resolv.conf

search thor.loc
nameserver 192.168.1.103

/etc/network/interfaces

# The primary network interface
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
     address 192.168.1.103
     network 192.168.1.0
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     broadcast 192.168.0.255
     gateway 192.168.1.1
     dns-nameservers 192.168.1.103