What's new
XO 6 is a complete redesign of the Xen Orchestra interface, built as a modern web application on a dedicated design system. It is not a reskin of XO 5: the navigation, the information architecture and the visual language were rebuilt from scratch around how infrastructures are actually operated.
XO 6 and XO 5
XO 6 and XO 5 are two interfaces to the same Xen Orchestra. They run side by side, on the same server, against the same data: a VM started in one is instantly running in the other, a backup job created in XO 5 immediately shows its health in XO 6. There is no migration step and nothing to synchronize.
First steps
XO 6 is the new generation of the Xen Orchestra web interface. Since its first official release, it is the default interface of your Xen Orchestra: log in as usual and you land in XO 6.
Core concepts
XO 6 organizes everything around a simple idea: every level of your infrastructure gets the same treatment. Your whole Xen Orchestra, a pool, a host or a single VM each have their own page, with a dashboard and a consistent set of tabs. Once you know how one page works, you know them all.