Orbit for Xen Orchestra
Manage Your Infrastructure
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Orbit is a companion app for Xen Orchestra that puts your entire virtualization infrastructure at your fingertips.
Dashboard at a Glance
See running VMs, host status, CPU, memory, and storage usage the moment you open the app. Live stats charts give you real-time visibility into performance.
In-App VM & Host Consoles
Open a full VNC console for any VM or host without leaving the app. Paste credentials directly from Apple Passwords, 1Password, or Bitwarden. Type in six keyboard layouts (US, UK, Swiss German, German, French, Spanish). Customize the quick-action shortcut bar above the keyboard with separate sets for hosts and VMs.
Full VM Management
Start, stop, reboot, suspend, snapshot, revert, and migrate virtual machines. Resize vCPUs, memory, and disks with live sliders. Move individual disks between storage repositories. View OS details, network interfaces, IP addresses, disk usage, and resource allocation. All in one place.
Host & Storage Oversight
Enter maintenance mode with automatic VM migration. Restart toolstacks, emergency-shutdown unresponsive hosts, or take them cleanly offline. Monitor host health, check for missing patches, and drill into any storage repository to see its usage and connected hosts.
Users, Groups & ACL Roles
Admins can create users, manage group memberships, and author ACL v2 roles with fine-grained privileges. Grant roles to individuals or whole groups at once. Review effective privileges and active tokens per user.
Your Account in One Place
A dedicated Account screen for your profile, SSH keys, active sessions per device, and your own effective privileges. Optional Gravatar avatar for a personal touch.
Backup Monitoring
Track backup job status across your environment. New job, run, and log detail screens break down every backup step by step, with warnings, errors, and one-tap copy for sharing with support. Get notified when a job fails or completes with warnings so you can act fast.
Smart Notifications
Background monitoring alerts you to failed tasks, offline hosts, stopped VMs, critical storage, and backup issues. Even when the app is closed. Alerts are deduplicated and summarized so you only hear about what matters. Fully customizable per category.
Multi-Server Support
Save multiple Xen Orchestra instances and switch between them instantly. Notifications stay scoped to your active server.
Built for iPad & iPhone
A native two-column layout on iPad and an optimized single-column experience on iPhone. Every screen rebuilt on a fresh design system with sharper typography, consistent cards, OS-aware VM icons, and alternate app icons.
Secure by Design
Credentials stored in the iOS Keychain and protected by Face ID. Sensitive content blurred in the app switcher. Self-signed certificate support with SHA-256 pinning. Resilient sign-in that holds up on flaky networks.
Orbit 1.1.1
New
- Clone a VM from your phone. Long press it in the list or use the menu on its screen. A fast clone is ready in seconds, or choose different storage and Orbit makes a full copy instead. Cloning to another pool works too. Needs Xen Orchestra 6.6.
- Backup Repositories, a new view under Storage. Every target Xen Orchestra backs up to, whether that is NFS, SMB, S3 or a local disk, each with a reachability check so you can tell whether last night's backup had somewhere to go. Open one for its read and write speed, earlier measurements, and the VMs holding restore points there. Needs Xen Orchestra 6.6.
- Smart Reboot on a host. It suspends that host's VMs, restarts it, then brings them back, so they stay put instead of migrating across the pool. Needs Xen Orchestra 6.6.
- Rename and describe your disks. Tap Edit on any disk on a VM's screen instead of living with whatever it was called when it was created. Needs Xen Orchestra 6.7.
- Alarm notifications. A host short on memory, a VM pinning its CPU, or a repository filling up now reaches you while the app is closed. Switch it on under Notifications in Settings.
- Hosts now tell you when they have taken their patches but still need the restart that puts those patches to work. That gap used to be invisible, and it has its own notification.
Improved
- Scrolling is properly smooth. The cards on your dashboard, VM and host screens were costing far more to draw than they should have, enough to hold a 120 Hz iPhone at around 30 while you scrolled. That is fixed, and you will feel it on the screens you use most.
- Background patch checks ask for a fraction of the data they used to, which is easier on your data plan and your battery.
- Missing-patch notifications read at the pool level now, such as "Production has 3 missing patches", and count each patch once instead of once per host.
- Dashboard alarms name what actually tripped and the figure that tripped it, rather than just "performance alarm", and the serious ones are marked as serious.
- Refused actions explain themselves. Try to reboot a host while the pool master still has updates waiting and Orbit names the master and tells you to patch that one first, instead of passing on "incorrect state".
- Host reboots, toolstack restarts and maintenance mode are tracked in Tasks, so a failure reaches you instead of going quietly nowhere. Needs Xen Orchestra 6.6.
- Disk resizing is clearer about what went wrong. Asking for a smaller size says so plainly, and resizing while the VM is running tells you to shut it down first. Resize several at once and Orbit names the one that failed while the rest go through.
The developer, Simon Huber, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Simon Huber
- Size
- 22.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Orbit Pro $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Simon Huber
