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    • About XenCenter®
    • What's new in XenCenter®
    • Installing XenCenter®
      • Starting or Exiting XenCenter®
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    • Exploring the XenCenter® workspace
      • The Toolbar
      • The Resources Pane
      • The Navigation Pane
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        • Using Folders
        • Using Tags
        • Using Custom Fields
      • Searching Resources
        • Create a Search Query
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        • Export and Import Searches
    • About XenServer® Licensing
      • Licensing Overview
      • Managing XenServer® Licenses
    • Citrix® integration
      • Pools and Citrix®
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      • VMs and Citrix®
    • Managing Servers
      • Connecting and Disconnecting Servers
        • Add a server
        • Disconnect a Server
        • Reconnect a Server
        • Reboot a Server
        • Shut Down a Server
        • Restart Toolstack
        • Configuring Host Power On
        • Power on a server remotely
        • Run in maintenance mode
        • Install a TLS certificate on your server
        • Store Your Server Connection State
        • Back up and Restore a Server
        • Remove a Server From XenCenter®
      • Configuring Networking
        • Add a network
        • Remove a Network
        • View and Change Network Properties
        • Configuring NICs
        • Configuring IP Addresses
      • Managing SSH and Console Sessions
      • View Server Properties
      • Changing Server Properties
      • Changing the Control Domain Memory
      • Exporting and Importing a List of Managed Servers
    • Managing Pools
      • Pool Requirements
      • Create a New Pool
      • Add a Server to a Pool
      • Remove a Server From a Pool
      • Destroy a server from a pool
      • Export Resource Data
      • View Pool Properties
      • Change Pool Properties
      • Pool security
      • Delete a Pool
    • Managing Storage
      • Creating a New SR
        • NFS Storage
        • Software iSCSI Storage
        • Hardware HBA Storage
        • SMB Storage
        • Software FCoE Storage (deprecated)
        • ISO Storage
        • Thin-provisioned shared GFS2 block storage
      • Storage properties
      • Removing an SR
      • Reattaching an SR
      • Storage Multipathing
      • Storage Read Caching
      • PVS-Accelerator
      • Reclaiming Freed Space
      • Live LUN Expansion
      • Corosync Upgrade Wizard
    • Creating VMs
      • Creating a New VM
        • VM Template and BIOS Options
        • VM Name and Description
        • OS Installation Media
        • Home Server
        • VM Group
        • VM CPU and Memory Allocation
        • GPU
        • Virtual Storage Configuration
        • Virtual Networking Configuration
        • Complete New VM Creation
      • Express (unattended) VM Creation
      • Creating New Templates
      • Export a Template to a File
      • Copying VMs and Templates
    • Configuring VMs
      • Installing XenServer® VM Tools
      • Configuring Virtual Storage
        • Add Virtual Disks
        • Attach Virtual Disks
        • Detach Virtual Disks
        • Move Virtual Disks
        • Delete Virtual Disks
        • Change Virtual Disk Properties
        • Create or remove a DVD drive
      • Configuring VM Networking
        • Add a Virtual Network Interface
        • Activate/deactivate a Virtual Network Interface
        • Remove a Virtual Network Interface
        • Change Virtual Network Interface Properties
      • Configuring Virtual GPU
      • Configuring VM Memory
      • View VM Properties
      • Change VM Properties
    • Managing VMs
      • Start a VM
      • Suspend and Resume a VM
      • Shut Down a VM
      • Reboot a VM
      • Restart the VM device model
      • Run a Remote Console Session
      • Manage VM groups
      • Migrate Virtual Machines
      • Delete a VM
      • Changed Block Tracking
      • Secure Boot Certificates
    • Importing and Exporting VMs
      • Open Virtualization Format (OVF and OVA)
      • Disk Image Formats (VHD, VHDX, AVHDX, and VMDK)
      • Import VMs From OVF/OVA
      • Import VMs From Disk Images
      • Import VMs From XVA
      • Export VMs as OVF/OVA
      • Export VMs as XVA
    • About Snapshots
      • Take a VM Snapshot
      • Revert to a Snapshot
      • Create a New VM From a Snapshot
      • Create a New Template From a Snapshot
      • Export a Snapshot to a File
      • Delete a Snapshot
      • Scheduled Snapshots
        • Create Scheduled Snapshots
        • Manage scheduled snapshots
        • Revert VMs to Snapshots
    • XenServer® vApps
      • Create a vApp
      • Modify vApps
      • Delete a vApp
      • Start and Shut Down vApps
      • Export and Import vApps
    • Protecting VMs and vApps
    • High availability
      • High availability Requirements
      • VM Restart Settings
      • Configure high availability
      • Disable high availability
      • Enable high availability
      • Change High Availability settings
    • Disaster Recovery (DR)
      • Configuring disaster recovery
      • Failover
      • Failback
      • Test Failover
    • Access Control (AD and RBAC)
      • Managing Users
      • Role Based Access Control overview
      • Definitions of RBAC roles and permissions
      • Join a domain and add users
      • Assign roles to users and groups
      • Calculating RBAC roles
      • Audit changes
    • Workload Balancing Overview
      • Getting Started with Workload Balancing
        • Workload Balancing Basic Concepts
        • Connecting to Workload Balancing
      • Introduction to basic tasks
        • Choosing an optimal server for VM initial placement, migrate, and resume
        • Accepting Optimization Recommendations
      • Working with Workload Balancing Reports
        • Using Workload Balancing Reports for Tasks
        • Generating and Managing Workload Balancing Reports
        • Workload Balancing Report Glossary
        • Audit Log Events
      • Editing Workload Balancing Settings
        • Adjusting the Optimization Mode
        • Optimizing and Managing Power Automatically
        • Changing the Critical Thresholds
        • Tuning Metric Weightings
        • Excluding Hosts from Recommendations
        • Excluding VMs from Recommendations
        • Advanced Settings
      • Administering Workload Balancing
        • Disconnecting from Workload Balancing
        • Reconfiguring a Pool to Use Another WLB Appliance
        • Updating Workload Balancing credentials
        • Entering maintenance mode with Workload Balancing Enabled
      • Troubleshooting Workload Balancing
        • Issues Entering Workload Balancing Credentials
        • Issues Starting Workload Balancing
        • Issues with Workload Balancing certificates
        • Workload Balancing Connection Errors
        • Issues changing Workload Balancing servers
    • Conversion Manager
      • What's new in Conversion Manager
      • Get started with Conversion Manager
      • Troubleshoot Conversion Manager
    • Monitoring System Performance
      • Viewing Performance Data
      • Configuring Performance Graphs
      • NUMA optimization in XenCenter
      • Monitoring host and dom0 resources with NRPE
      • Monitoring host and dom0 resources with SNMP
      • Configuring Performance Alerts
    • Updates and Upgrades
      • Upgrade your hosts
      • Update your XenServer® hosts
      • Live patches
      • Update XenCenter®
      • Update Notifications
      • Install supplemental packs
      • Install driver disks
    • XenCenter® Alerts
    • Troubleshooting
      • Using the XenCenter® Event Log
      • Creating a Server Status Report
      • Resolving SR Connectivity Problems
    • Getting Help
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    Connecting and disconnecting

    • Add a server
    • Disconnect a server
    • Reconnect a server
    • Reboot a Server
    • Shut Down a Server
    • Restart Toolstack
    • Configuring Host Power On
    • Power on a server remotely
    • Run in maintenance mode
    • Store Your Server Connection State
    • Back up and Restore a Server
    • Remove a Server From XenCenter

    Configuring networking

    • XenServer Networks
    • Add a New Network
    • Remove a Network
    • View and Change Network Properties
    • Configuring NICs
    • Configuring IP Addresses

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    • Changing Server Properties
    • Changing the Control Domain Memory
    • Exporting and Importing a List of Managed Servers

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