How To Install XCP-ng with Ease: Migrating from VMware vSphere

If VMware's heavy price increases have you searching for a better solution, it’s time to explore XCP-ng.

In this video, we’ll take you step-by-step through the entire migration process from VMware vSphere to XCP-ng, including a comprehensive and detailed walkthrough of building your own XCP-ng environment from the ground up.

What's inside this video:

📌 Step 1: Decommissioning VMware Hosts
* We begin by gracefully saying goodbye to some VMware vSphere hosts that have served their purpose.

📌 Step 2: Building a Full XCP-ng Environment
* From scratch to fully operational, we’ll walk you through setting up XCP-ng, including installing the hypervisor and configuring your environment.

📌 Step 3: Migrating VMs from VMware
* Learn how to efficiently migrate virtual machines to XCP-ng.

📌 Step 4: Understanding XCP-ng’s Features
* Simplified licensing: Pay per server, and it includes the powerful Orchestrator appliance (think of it as vCenter for XCP-ng).
* Short learning curve.
* Support and frequent updates from the Vates team.
* Enterprise-level reliability.

This video is perfect for IT professionals, system administrators, and virtualization enthusiasts looking to break free from VMware's costly ecosystem while maintaining a high-performance virtualization platform.

This is not a sponsored video. I’m sharing this because I genuinely believe in the power of XCP-ng to transform IT environments and want to help others discover its potential.

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Chapters
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🎞️ 00:00 Intro
🎞️ 01:40 Installing first XCP-NG host
🎞️ 03:50 XCP-NG host console UI
🎞️ 07:42 XCP-NG host web UI
🎞️ 08:03 Deploying Xen Orchestrator - XOA
🎞️ 09:43 Create Vates account for trial license and support
🎞️ 10:24 Upgrade and patching XOA
🎞️ 11:13 Exploring host menu's
🎞️ 11:34 Creating network bonds
🎞️ 14:07 Creating vlan interfaces
🎞️ 14:51 Setting interface IP's
🎞️ 15:40 Mounting NFS storage
🎞️ 16:30 Migrating XOA to shared storage
🎞️ 18:03 Adding a second XCP-NG host to the pool
🎞️ 20:07 Rolling updates to all hosts in the pool
🎞️ 22:24 Enable High Availability - HA
🎞️ 24:20 Creating an ISO storage resource
🎞️ 25:26 XOA and Pool metadata backups
🎞️ 27:34 Adding a second NIC to XOA for NFS network
🎞️ 29:10 Importing VM's from VMware vSphere
🎞️ 33:39 Installing Ubuntu guest utilities
🎞️ 41:30 Installing Windows guest tools
🎞️ 43:17 Configure VM backups
🎞️ 46:19 Restoring a VM from backup
🎞️ 47:27 Restoring a single file from backup
🎞️ 47:48 License options and pricing

Links
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🌏 Main Site: https://xcp-ng.org/
🌏 File types EXT vs LVM: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/06/02/understanding-the-storage-stack-in-xcp-ng/
🌏 Windows Guest Tools: https://xenserver.com/downloads

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