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    Zero Downtime NFS snapshots?

    Hi, We currently run Citrix XenServer as our virtualization platform. After running for a few years on iSCSI, we switched to NFS (flakey iSCSI hardware and snapshots). One thing XenServer does is zero downtime NFS snapshots, using a copy-on-write system. When the snapshot is removed, it...
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    OVF Import

    The .ovf file is quite large... big enough to hold the disk image. I'll do some more checking this week. Gerald
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    OVF Import

    Okay, figured it out. A different Citrix employee responded and answered my question. Clonezilla can boot from a CD. In XenCenter, select the VM menu VM->Start/Shutdown->Start in recovery Mode. Recovery mode bots the VM in HVM mode instead of PVM, and will boot from the CD. Gerald
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    OVF Import

    Thanks for the response. That would work great, except for getting it from ovf to vmdk. I don't know how to do that, and it's the only format Citrix XenServer will export
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    OVF Import

    Hi, I'm currently a dissatisfied Citrix XenServer user, and I am testing Proxmox. I would like to import some of my XenServer VM's. The last forum post on OVF import said it would be around sometime late 2011. Is OVF import possible? If not, is there a round about way (OVF->VMDK->ProxMox)...