Over a year ago I posted Bye Bye ESXi, Hello XCP-NG ([ Ссылка ]) but never followed up with a how to. My lab has evolved quite a lot since then and has mostly moved into a collocated space which you might know if you've checked out the My Lab ([ Ссылка ]) portion of my website.
When the majority of my lab moved I purchased a single Supermicro SYS-5018R-WR to serve as my primary home hypervisor as there are still VMs I like to run at home. This gave me an excellent excuse to try out the new XCP-NG 8.3 alpha as well as show how to install the hypervisor, setup a ZFS SSD pool, bootstrap Xen Orchestra, import ISOs, and spin up VMs.
There will be a later post / video on some more advanced features of Xen Orchestra as well as a more detailed walk through of the interface.
You can find the blog post for this video here: [ Ссылка ]
