Tag Archives: XenServer

Changing CPU and memory settings on XenServer VMs

Posted on 08/06/2010 by Jan Sipke

You can change the CPU and memory settings of XenServer virtual machines using the API. XenServer allows you to set the priority of the virtual machine CPU (called weight), set a limit on the amount of CPU the virtual machine … Continue reading →

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Getting CPU, memory, disk and network metrics from XenServer

Posted on 08/05/2010 by Jan Sipke

In a previous article we looked at getting CPU and memory metrics from XenServer. As noted in that article, as of version 5.5 of XenServer, the preferred way of getting virtual machine metrics is through HTTP calls to get RRD … Continue reading →

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Getting XenServer VM metrics in Java

Posted on 03/03/2010 by Jan Sipke

XenServer is a product of Citrix that can run virtual machines on a set of physical hosts called a pool. There is an API that allows you to create programs that interact with the XenServer pool. There are some function … Continue reading →

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