 So I am excited, so I figured I'd make a video because it's 9 o'clock 30 on a Monday evening And I'm still at my office because I couldn't resist installing the new version of the XCPNG which is the open source Zen server not Citrix Zen server just Zen server without the Citrix stuff Anyways, so for those you follow in a project and have heard me talking about it or tweeting about it I'm gonna leave the links in the comments below so you can get started on this and I'm gonna do a more in-depth video because I plan to after This kind of comes out of beta to go into production. So I'm moving over on my backup server Back up as in it's a spare to my primary server over to this I've imported VMs from my other server to make sure they work in so far. Everything's working really well Now like I said, what this is is the folks over at Zen orchestra Realized there was a problem in the market created by Citrix And I was really excited when I got into the Zen server and started moving everything over to it a while back And then people said but they removed features in 7.3 of Zen server Yeah, they took features out and crippled it and then encouraged you to buy a license only To that and we even talked to the people at Zen had some conversation with them And they said they would take it up with management. Well, I never heard back from that You know, I guess they took it up with management management says no We want license fees for all the features you used to have that you don't have now I don't mind paying license fees for software and things like that But there was some philosophy differences on they make you register now to even get to the download links They removed all the old download links Whatever that's the way Citrix wants to play. That's not a problem Zen is an open-source project the folks at Zen orchestra took and Revived the original code that Citrix was maintaining and then brought it all up to date So what you're looking at here, and I'm gonna zoom in a little bit because I can't really show you this on the Computer because I I only have it installed back here and currently have no way to mirror my screens So let me get over here and zoom in a little more. So what you're looking at here is the XP 7.4 Now this is my other Zen server And you notice how much the same they look they kept the same interfaces They kept most of it the same so it looks like this is the Zen server And there's that so most of the menus are same. I'm gonna do a more in-depth review of all this Show you a little more how it works, but I'm impressed with this so far. It works great Now it does not need or is actually not even compatible with the Citrix That you're used to using like if you use using the Citrix windows tool I forget what is called the Zen manager tool, which I don't really use anyways because I use the Zen orchestra tool It's not completely compatible with it. I it doesn't seem to work with that I try attaching it just out of curiosity and it failed But that being said you can use this interface to get you set up And then they have a really quick command that automatically Automagically scripts and curls. I know is that scary pulling things off curl But if you didn't want to go through trouble of downloading the OVA file and importing it They have a script you run right on the Zen server itself after you get it loaded and it puts in Zen orchestra Zen orchestra gets an IP address you find an IP address in your DHCP server and you're up and running You can configure this and you've had to load no windows on your computer So no windows management council to finish setting anything up Zen orchestra does ask that you register and email address with them. So there's still that Pick if you don't have if you have a privacy problem with that You know the solution with the Yahoo email address then pretty much the reason anyone uses the Yahoo email address Just give them the dumb one. Anyways, give them the spam email address So far it's working really well. I just installed it tonight So I wait I my reviews before I go in-depth that I've actually used the product a lot more But so far I feel comfortable with it because it looks just like Citrix Zen server in terms of functionality in terms of the command line And if you're not used to using Zen server from the command line, you there's a series of commands You can run to you know import expert VMs. I've talked about this in the backups in the backup script that I use Runs off of that once I get done all the testing and importing some VMs and making sure everything seems nice and stable Even though this is not a full release. It's their very first release, but still impressive. They've done a great job with it So far I'll dig into the technical details, but of course, I'll leave you a link here So you can see read for yourself all the things on there They have the walkthrough for the screenshots for the setup, but it looks and installed just like Zen server did So the my tutorial on that still fits this not really different But it will do an entire updated one because you will be you know, obviously getting it from somewhere else But if you're interested in trying this go ahead and do this I'm also really curious about something else one of the options it had I erased the server and loaded the cleans. I wanted a clean load on here was an upgrade I have one more of my servers to do my one at home And I'm gonna try the upgrade because if it breaks they have it all backed up But that's my curiosity is will I be able to do the upgrade in place? It had an option for it I'm excited if it works if it doesn't work back up back up back up always back everything up I'm gonna back it up before I try it. I have backups all the stuff that's on my Home Zen server and when I do the over what I do the upgrade because it will be an upgrade because I'll get all the features that you lost If you move to the newer version of Zen, I'll be running it at home And because my home servers are not mission critical They're just kind of you know stuff I play with at home and a couple things I have like my Plex server that runs on it I'll see how it works that way I can actually do some more production use because they said it's beta So I'm not quite ready to throw it in my full production machine right here But that's the update on the Zen server XG XC PNG I keep on call it Zen server XG but XC PNG product Which is the open-source Zen server project go ahead and give it a spin give it a try That's it for now I'm gonna do some more testing and dig it in if I can if I can find a handful of computers Despair that are fast enough to run it to it has options for high availability and I'm gonna give that a try too I'm gonna try and figure out where all the feature sets are. I haven't read through every little detail yet I don't know what they have implemented in absolute total So it's like I said work in progress go ahead and get playing with it have fun Thanks if you like the content here like subscribe and all that fun stuff And I'll keep you up to date on this project as it keeps coming along