XOA-HL manual

XOA-HL is the appliance, a ready-made virtual machine, that runs Xen Orchestra. You use it from your browser to manage your XCP-HL hosts and virtual machines. This manual shows you how to set it up, run VMs, protect them and keep everything up to date.

Start here

New to XOA-HL? Follow these three guides in order.

Not deployed yet? Deploy XOA-HL from XO Lite first. To see how the host, XO Lite and the appliance fit together, read the architecture overview.

Virtual machines

• Manage VMs: start and stop, snapshots, copies, CPU and memory, deletion.
• Use the VM console and fix a blank screen.
• Take and revert a snapshot.
• Install Linux guest tools.
• Create and use templates.
• Migrate, export and import a VM.

Storage and networks

• Add disks and network interfaces.
• Create NFS storage for VM disks.
• Create a VLAN network.
• Diagnose a network problem.

Backup and recovery

• Schedule backups and set retention.
• Use incremental backups.
• Recover a single file.
• Copy a VM to another pool (DR).
• Back up to a Windows Server share (SMB).
• Fix a failed backup.

Hosts, users and security

• Manage hosts and pools: connections, the XO Lite button and statistics.
• Add a host to a pool.
• Put a host in maintenance mode.
• Manage users, groups and permissions.
• Delegate resources with a quota.
• Add a one-time code to sign-in.

Keep XOA-HL running

• Update the appliance and update the host.
• Plan maintenance and check the result.
• Export the XO configuration.
• Back up pool metadata.
• Troubleshoot a problem.
• See what each release shipped and read the changelog.

Reference

• Concepts and feature scope
• Service settings
• Automation with xo-cli
• Glossary
• Pages for contributors

Help and feedback

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