Creating a heterogeneous XenServer resource pool

Creating heterogeneous resource pools is most easily done with XenCenter. XenCenter will automatically suggest using CPU masking whenever possible.

To add a heterogeneous XenServer host to a resource pool using the xe CLI use the following procedure:

  1. Find the CPU features of the Pool Master by running the following command:
    xe host-get-cpu-features
    
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  2. On the new server, run the xe host-set-cpu-features command and copy and paste the Pool Master's features into the features parameter. For example:
    xe host-set-cpu-features features= <pool_master's_cpu_features>
    xe host-set-cpu-features features=17bae3ff-bfebfbff-00000001-28100800 ...

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