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1Labs Gallery: Citrix XenServer 5.5 Makes Advances in No-Cost Server Virtualization Space
2Add a New Server
3Small-Shop Security Approach
4Get in the Pool
In the left background you can see that I’ve successfully added the three physical hosts running XenServer. In the foreground you see the first step in the simple process of creating a resource pool, which allows me to share resources among virtual machines created in this management domain. My physical systems were nearly perfectly matched in terms of processor type (all Intel Xeon 5500 family processors) with identical amounts of RAM. This made it easy to create the resource pool. Mismatched processors will foil attempts to create pools.
5Deep End of the Pool
6Storage Options
7AD Authentication
9Server View
10Folder View
You can now see resources arranged by type, so that all the physical servers are together, as are the virtual machines and storage. Incidentally, to the right are real-time performance graphs along with a couple of warnings that XenServer tools have not yet been installed on several virtual machines.