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Intro
This document will guide you through the steps of install, configure and use of the XenServer Plugin for Fuel
XenServer is an Open Source hypervisor with commercial support options provided by Citrix. This plugin provides a new Release definition in Mirantis OpenStack to allow easy installation of production environments based on XenServer with Fuel.
XenServer is freely available from xenserver.org and can also be downloaded directly from citrix.com if you have a My Citrix account.
Documentation for XenServer can be found on docs.vmd.citrix.com and for how XenServer works within OpenStack at docs.openstack.org in the OpenStack Configuration Reference guide
Further reading
Here are some of the resources available to learn more about Xen:
- Citrix XenServer official documentation: http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer
- What is Xen? by Xen.org: http://xen.org/files/Marketing/WhatisXen.pdf
- Xen Hypervisor project: http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor.html
- Xapi project: http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html
- Further XenServer and OpenStack information: http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServer