As promised here's some feedback on the newly released XenServer 5.
The first thing you notice is that XenCenter has had a slight facelift, so is it any good?
To be honest I'm undecided, the pretty exterior has resulted in everything being made bigger, which disappointingly (for me) reduces the amount of information you can see on the page. It appears to have added a tagging feature, which should help you find your VMs when you have lots of them!
XenServer itself seems to have several new features and fixes, and this goes some way to justify the increase in footprint. NIC Bonding and support for VLANs seem to have been improved, which were issues I've had in the past. In particular adding/removing servers from pools with VLANs present now works, which was much needed. The big addition seems to be the inclusion of High Availability (HA) features, although I've not had a chance to see exactly what this is as yet, I'll probably do a HA feature soon.
More details to follow
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