XCP-ng which preferred tool flavour

Software & Web Applications
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Hi,

I am currently migrating from Server 2016 to 2025.

Any advice on which tool you prefer (production)

Citrix or XCP-NG flavour.

Many thanks as always in advance.

2

Look at these threads:

These are a couple minor things you may encounter. And this seems to be an XCP-ng 8.3 thing, not necessarily an 8.2.x thing. My tests were with the 9.4 management agent and drivers on XCP 8.3

No comment on Citrix over XCP as I have not used the Citrix versions.

3

Thanks,

I am running 8.2.1 with 9.4 management seems the management agent gets stuck starting in services. I had to disable in msconfig before uninstalling otherwise would not uninstall.

4

Try just changing the management agent to automatic (delayed start). If it hangs while starting, it often blocks things like windows installer which would prevent updates, uninstall, etc.

5

I am running the non production drivers in test mode, these seem to work for me for the moment. Hopefully an update will be released later on at which point I will demote the 2016’s.

Should I probably demote the 2025 servers and leave as is for the moment probably :smile: