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XO Lite

XO Lite (Xen Orchestra Lite) is a lightweight version of Xen Orchestra for single-pool administration, served directly by your XCP-ng host: it runs entirely in your browser, with nothing to deploy. It is bundled by default in XCP-ng 8.3: just open https://your-host-ip (or its hostname), accept the self-signed certificate, and log in with the host's credentials (usually root and the password chosen during installation).

What it covers​

XO Lite is meant for all the basic actions you need to bootstrap your infrastructure or operate a single pool:

  • Dashboard with an overview of your pool.
  • Essential VM administration: creating, booting and migrating VMs.
  • Monitoring: disk space, network consumption and other host activity, straight from the browser.

XO Lite is a local management console, not a multi-pool orchestrator. For orchestration at scale (backup, load balancing, warm migration and so on) use the full Xen Orchestra.

note

XO Lite is a pure XAPI client running in your browser: it does not increase the attack surface of your XCP-ng hosts. It can still be fully disabled by setting disable-webserver=true in a file under /etc/xapi.conf.d/ on every host, followed by a toolstack restart.

On releases older than 8.3, you can use the hosted version at https://lite.xen-orchestra.com/#/?master=IP_of_your_XCP-ng_master (visit your master's page first to accept its certificate).

Licensing​

XO Lite is free and open source (AGPLv3), developed in the xen-orchestra repository.

Learn more​