{"id":471,"date":"2010-01-30T17:53:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=471"},"modified":"2010-01-30T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T02:14:01","slug":"add-a-xenserver-storage-repository-on-local-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Add a XenServer storage repository on local disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people use shared storage, like iSCSI, for their XenServer storage repositories to hold virtual machines.\u00a0 Virtual machines <strong>*MUST*<\/strong> be in a shared storage repository in order to enable XenMotion and other advanced features.<\/p>\n<p>It is handy to have some local storage repositories available, mainly to hold backups of machines.\u00a0 For example, you could shutdown a running virtual machine, right click on it, select Copy, and select a local repository to hold the copy.\u00a0 Then if you lost your iSCSI server, you&#8217;d have a local copy of the virtual machine you could start until the the iSCSI server became available again.<\/p>\n<p>The XenCenter management GUI doesn&#8217;t allow you to make local storage repositories.\u00a0 You have to use the command line.\u00a0 Luckily, it&#8217;s pretty easy.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wiki\/HowTo:XenServer#Add_a_new_storage_repository_on_local_disk\">Here&#8217;s my updated XenServer wiki page on how to do this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people use shared storage, like iSCSI, for their XenServer storage repositories to hold virtual machines.\u00a0 Virtual machines *MUST* be in a shared storage repository in order to enable XenMotion and other advanced features. It is handy to have some&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}