{"id":167,"date":"2012-09-29T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raykain.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2012-09-29T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T20:19:00","slug":"install-xenserver-6-1-from-usb-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Install XenServer 6.1 from USB stick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I know alot of people with a Home lab I am going to post how I upgraded to XenServer 6.1 since my home lab does not have a CD\/DVD drive installed in it. \u00a0This is probably not recommended for production boxes so please do this at your own risk.<\/p>\n

Things you will need….<\/p>\n

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  1. XenServer 6.1 (Release 9\/28\/2012)<\/li>\n
  2. UNetbootin (Download Link<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  3. 2GB Flash Drive or bigger<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Setup Bootable Flash Drive<\/p>\n

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    1. Plug in Flash Drive<\/li>\n
    2. Open Up UNetbootin<\/li>\n
    3. Browse\u00a0out to location of XenServer ISO image<\/li>\n
    4. Make sure UNetbootin selects the correct drive<\/li>\n
    5. Hit ok<\/li>\n
    6. Wait until UNetbootin finishes installing on the thumb drive (took about 5 minutes to complete)<\/li>\n
    7. Eject from system<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Install XenServer<\/p>\n

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      1. Plug in Flash Drive to XenServer<\/li>\n
      2. Boot the XenServer from the Flash Drive<\/li>\n
      3. Select Other<\/li>\n
      4. Boot to the XenServer 6.1 Media<\/li>\n
      5. Install XenServer as normal<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Since I know alot of people with a Home lab I am going to post how I upgraded to XenServer 6.1 since my home lab does not have a CD\/DVD drive installed in it. \u00a0This is probably not recommended for production boxes so please do this at your own risk. Things you will need…. XenServer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,25,23,24],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-citrix","tag-usb","tag-xenserver","tag-xenserver-6-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16FBG-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raykain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}