Additionally ipv6 support is also there in newer templates apart from several performance related enhancements.
On 02/07/13 10:18 PM, "Abhinandan Prateek" <abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com> wrote: >I think making it mandatory is good due to following: > >1. The guestOS version is upgraded over time the support for old OSes may >be withdrawn, a this point I do not have exact dates on those though. >2. We are bundling Hypervisor tools onto the system Vms and with dynamic >scaling they will work seamlessly. > >On the other hand the older templates are still compatible, could be a >good reason to make this optional. > >-abhi > >On 02/07/13 10:10 PM, "Harikrishna Patnala" ><harikrishna.patn...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I have few questions regarding System vm templates and their upgrade from >>4.1 to 4.2. Could you please help me clarifying on this. >> >> 1) During the upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 do we need to make System >>templates upgrade mandatory. Since I guess 4.2 works fine with the old >>system template except for IPV6 support. >> 2) Are we including XS tools / VMWare tools in the new System templates. >>If we include I think we have to make template upgrade mandatory incase >>of XenServer and VMware since tools are needed in order to work dynamic >>scaling of CPU and Memory for System VMs. >> >>Based on this we need to modify the upgrade process, since we made system >>template upgrade mandatory. >> >>Thank you >>Harikrishna >> >
