Local ISO storage on XenServer
Please ignore my previous post, titled “Path for ISO’s on XenServer 5.5″. That was typed in such rush.
For those of you wanting to store your ISO’s on the Xen server itself and not some remote location on NFS (I find it odd how Citrix is really pushing that method to the extreme), this is what works for me:
Simply scp your ISO’s to “/var/opt/xen/iso_import” on the Xen server.
From googling around, I see most people resort to restarting their server or detach/retach the storage to have XenCenter show those newly uploaded ISO’s. If you can’t afford having it restarted, then read on…
After you uploaded your ISO’s, do:
xe sr-list
This will list all your storage devices. Look for the one that is your local storage and copy the uuid from it. Next do:
xe sr-scan uuid=YOUR_UUID_HERE
This will rescan your local storage.
Now check XenCenter and you will see your new ISO’s there ready to be used.
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Hi! I'm Stephen... I'm just a plain 'ol system/network administrator working mostly in Linux and I do miracles on a daily basis for the best WISP here in Knysna. I try to write mostly about technical stuff, but mostly it's a bunch of junk. Enjoy the blog folks!

