 Tom here for more systems. We're going to talk about XTP and G 8.1 and Zen Orchestra 5.45 These two updates both came out today same developers put both of this together and there's some major cool updates coming In this version, especially this RAM stuff. I want to have a demo with that That's kind of fun. If you want to learn more about me my company head over to Lawrence systems comm You want to hire short project or say hires button up at the top We like to support this channel in other ways just some affiliate links down below that gives you deals and discounts on products And services we talk about on this channel Major highlights ramen able backup support. We were playing with this and my staff was like wow That's really cool, and it is a pretty neat We're gonna when you do the demo of that but what you're able to do with this is grab a snapshot of the VM in a running state Not just the hard drive of course, but the memory to restore it even to another machine and Have it not boot up but start in that same state So it's kind of like frozen in time backed up and Reestablished in that same running states even if it's on resort on another machine or just you know rolling back from a snapshot So you don't even have to reboot you can actually just revert back to that running state kind of interesting that they've made all that work and it's cool to see in One you see it running. This is something that's gonna make a lot of people happy new hardware support for the AMD Epic processors is Coming well built in they've been adding it, but there's still more I know there's a few other like the rise in support There's some quirks with it that people have commented they need your help the developers need help in order to find those quirks You have to let them what they are they have forums for xcpng So head over to their forums and join the discussion if you're one of the people that have one because well as developers They may not have every processor combination to try now But they have worked on the epic ones, but they're also working on some of the rise and stuff And I'll be talking about that a little bit further down here as well Ext4 is now the default if you didn't know when you're setting up a local file system It was defaulting to ext3, but you could up you could change it to ext4 now. It's ext4 by default, which is great Alternate kernel There's a bunch of parameters for some alternate kernel options And this is also to help you when you have systems that just don't want to boot with the default kernel And you can look through and it also allows you to at least get it loaded and figure out what some of the Challenges are and then once again report to them and their forums, then they'll help fix the main kernel Now XFS experimental XFS local storage report is still available through the SM additional drivers ZFS is available as an additional package So I think I've talked about that in the past where you can load these if the hard drives are passed through and build a ZFS array You build it up from the command line and then you can map it within Zen Orchestra and use it for storage Installer improvements for Xcp and 8.1 our installer now offers a few options BIOS mode access them But f2 in order to choice you have five mode Let's see the booted entries first new boot option the boot installer with 2 gig of RAM limit instead of 8 gig default This is a workaround for installations where hardware were rising CPUs Those are desktop class CPUs not officially supported in a hardware compatibility list But they tried to make it easier for work around for the installer crashes on rising issue Second new option to boot installer with alternate kernel kernel alt the kernel built maintained Our one for the team based on the main kernel with upstream kernel patches from the LTS branch applied. This is very very stable Construction, but it receives less testing. So once again, this is just a few things on there now as far as upgrading your system in place Xcp 8.1 is a minor upgrade from 8.0. So you can do a yum upgrade in place We actually on our lab system here. We're running it in beta When I loaded the beta, then we did upgrade to the full and it went perfectly fine I haven't updated all of our production systems and all of our client production systems yet That's usually something we reserve for weekends a weekend projects Depending on how they set up If you want to know what the install looks like when you put the alternate option This is what that is and yes, I am running the installer Installing Zen inside of Zen if you ever you can play with this just you know, it's not ideal I wouldn't recommend this at all for production But if you turn on nested virtualization, you probably could get I didn't try going through the full installer I just ran the Pulled the boot installer up here, but it does have nested virtualization and Xcp and G I don't know if it'll let you double nest this or not But not to get off topic These are those options that come up for the alternate kernel and things like that Just like they said press F1 for standard F2 for the advanced options to be able to see these There's your standard installer F2 brings up this one in here So these are some of the options you can do when you do the install Now let's run down the list over here that sends an orchestra and it's like I said the same developers You kind of get a combination of things So this is available the raminable backups You do need the latest version of Zen orchestra to take advantage of it So it's combination of Xcp and G and Zen orchestra both being on the latest and I did the compiled one I recompiled it today just for doing this demo, but of course if you're on the paid full version This is all just part of the update channel. You can get all the Zen orchestra proxy They have the destination storage destination network. They've updated this more So this is really cool for doing a proxy deployment. So I'm gonna do a video on that at some point But not yet audit log integrity checking I've talked about the audit log when last time there was a new version that orchestra So they've enhanced that even more backup list for each VM. This is neat. So here's the server New tab added so you can see when was the server last backed up for that particular VM and each backup related to this particular VM will be listed right here So you maybe have more than one backup schedule one weekly one monthly, etc They'll all be listed right here when I think that's pretty slick the way they have that Go down over here Migration enhanced migrate VDIs from the storage view So if we wanted to move we'll go back here to the disc we have this And we can migrate all of them to one of the other VDIs just like that. So it's kind of nice that they have this option done here. I Thought I've seen it there for a while But I maybe it's because I'm always running latest beta versions on there But it's nice that you can do that from there and I've done it before just to move it So migrate VDI. I guess it's the migrate all VDIs must not have been there before But it makes it easy so you don't have to go and migrate and find the disk You can migrate it right there migration network You can now actually set a migration network when you migrate a VM even within a pool And this is handy if you've got maybe a storage network that's faster versus the main network you're interfacing on So now you can choose which network interface on the machines that you want them to talk to each other on maybe Because you have a 10 gig back-end interface, but the front interface is only hooked up at one gig But those are options that you can do now better licenses They've updated the way they handle the licenses and the way the purchaser because of the way they have the proxies So they've got that in here So they have a couple different ways to handle it and they're gonna make this a little bit easier to handle the licensing But the part I'm most excited about that. I want to do the demo on so here we have this machine running and We'll go ahead and destroy something on it Our f whoops star Oh, no, we're destroyed this machine. It's I know it's broken enough with this even whoops Yeah, there's no user bin so yep, we broke it can we even do a shutdown now Nope, I can't even shut it off. Well, I guess this one's broke. So let's go ahead and Force shut down this machine and please note that the snapshot was done about 30 minutes ago We're going to and this is a normal snapshot this snapshot with memory So we get the little memory icon right there. So I'm gonna go ahead and move myself all the way so you can see what I'm doing and Revert to this snapshot. We're not gonna snapshot before I just want to revert to it from the snapshot from 30 minutes ago with the memory So Gonna take a second to refresh here is pushing the memory back in and undoing my RMR f-ing and We're gonna log back in. I wasn't logged in. Why did the snapshot? The files are all still there And up time So up 33 minutes. That's impressive. So for demo one more demonstration on this So let's restart it real quick. So we have a new fresh up time on this All right, and it is booted back up. Yes, these boot fast. It's on a nice fast connection in our lab here There's a couple files that I have in here. It's booted up, right? So we're gonna head and purge this particular snapshot We'll do a new snapshot with memory. All right. Create the checkpoint on here And we can see up time right now That's been up for one minute and we'll just go ahead and our arms stars want to get rid of the files are in this directory So there's no more files in the directory here But let's go ahead and now restore it to its State right here. So we'll actually shut it off Shuts down go back over to snapshot and do the same thing again. We're just going to go ahead and run a restore on it so Go ahead and revert don't snapshot before and it's going to go from a shutdown state To reverted it's pushing all that in there if we look at the tasks. It's Pushing the resume volume async resume VM There we go and there's exactly where it left off in the status and everything else and Because it realizes it's up. It's updated the uptime It's been updated for uptime for a minute just like it was so it's a perfect snapshot Even if you're running applications everything that's running in a background It's grabbing all of those and putting them in and this is a really impressive feature that I think they added so kudos to the team that put this all together so they could You know all this open source 100% free and this is a lot of good hard work that goes into making this work Is what it was fun is migrating live machines and you know, you the ability was there adding this little feature So we do the backups this works now. Where's that at in the backups? Let's go here if we go to edit one of these backups you go here to advanced and Backup mode with memory when it takes the snapshot you can actually have it doing this and then when you restore something from backup You're still able to push it in there. So some really cool features on there Once again 100% open source 100% free you can get all of the files and downloaded So I'll go ahead and start playing with it. And of course I've mentioned this before if you need any support from their team You just go to their comm they do sell full support packages for both xcp and g and For there's an orchestra if you wanted by fully supportive ones in a commercial environment They do offer that the comm is for the commercial the dot org is all the open source, you know, where you just get community support and But I highly recommend trying this out. It's wonderful for building out your home lab But it's also great for working in full production. We use it in production here We have a lot of clients that use it in production. We've seen some very large scale systems They're using this that's questions. He's a come up. Well, isn't it's just some toy It's a very solid commercial product and uh, it's impressive every Update even though it's only a point release is really impressive all the extra features that I keep packing in here and adding on to it All right, and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like youtube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurance systems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos. 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