After upgrading Citrix Hypervisor 8.0.0 to 8.1.0, all ISO CIFS SR became inaccessible. The CIFS shares are held by our Samba server and they are available read-only without any authentication. Manually adding a new ISO CIFS SR revealed that the username must be specified as \ (blackslash), indicating no domain name and no username. No […]

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I installed Citrix XenServer 7.2 on a spare server, created a small VM running FreeBSD/amd64 head r347896, and updated the host all the way to XS 7.6. Upgrading to Citrix Hypervisor 8.0.0 requires boot media, and the procedure is pretty painless. I added the XS80E001.zip update and rebooted the host. Neither a license server nor a license […]

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