Managing pools and hosts

You have multiple ways to manage your hosts and your pool: all of those are called clients.

🔭 Local management

If you have one host or small pool (a cluster), you can use those following tools:

• xe CLI (talking to a host XAPI directly)
• XO Lite (embedded lightweight web client)
• Xen API (XAPI)
• XCP-ng Center (Windows client, deprecated and not supported ⚠️)

🛰️ Manage at scale

As soon you start to management multiple hosts and/or pools, you might need a single/central orchestrator. That's the point of Xen Orchestra, which can be used via a web UI, a CLI or its API:

• Xen Orchestra web UI (web interface)
• Xen Orchestra CLI (command line tool)
• Xen Orchestra API (REST and JSON-RPC APIs)

tip

Xen Orchestra is not just an XCP-ng orchestrator at scale: it's also a backup tool. See the backup section for more details.