Overview
XCP-ng evaluation should be more than a feature comparison. The real question is whether the platform fits your operational model.
Evaluation Areas
1. Hypervisor Operations
- host lifecycle and patching
- cluster behavior during maintenance
- storage attachment and recovery workflows
2. Management Plane
- day-to-day usability in Xen Orchestra
- RBAC and admin separation
- backup orchestration and restore testing
3. Networking
- VLAN and trunk behavior
- multi-subnet guest connectivity
- integration with existing routing, firewall, and monitoring models
4. Migration Readiness
- supported conversion paths
- guest OS compatibility
- operational documentation for your team
Recommended Lab Outputs
- validated guest templates
- restore test results
- performance notes by workload type
- operational runbooks for patching, backup, and failure response
If the platform wins technically but your team cannot operate it confidently, the evaluation is incomplete.
