After digging around numerous posts on the Citrix forums and Citrix Articles, I found the appropriate solution.

To shut down a virtual machine, which is in an amber state from XenServer control domain, complete the following procedure:

Step 1: Select the virtual machine in XenCenter and check the general tab to obtain the UUID of the virtual machine, which is in an unresponsive state:

Obtain UUID of XenServer VM

Step 2: Run the following command to check the dom-id of the virtual machine in the XenServer control domain:
list_domains | grep
Following is a sample of the preceding command:
[root@xenserver-b ~]# list_domains | grep 5948a1c6-6cf0-6028-d092-1f4dac5f1ea2
Output:
6 | 5948a1c6-6cf0-6028-d092-1f4dac5f1ea2 | H
6 = the domid of the VM
5948a1c6-6cf0-6028-d092-1f4dac5f1ea2 = the UUID of the VM
H – state of the virtual machine (H indicates that this is a HVM guest, typically it means this is a Windows virtual machine.)

Step 3: Run the following command to destroy the domid of the virtual machine (this purges running data of the VM from memory, not your storage; so don’t panic).
/opt/xensource/debug/xenops destroy_domain –domid 6

These steps should apply from XenServer 5.6 up to 6.0 and possibly newer. I don’t think it would change anytime soon. It may work on older versions, though I’m not certain.

This information was put together from the following Citrix Article.

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Meta Tag Keywords: Should contain three to five keywords, comma seperated. For example: leather, bag, purse

Also Note: leather bag, leather purse

Those two phrases above, even though they are two words each, are still considered a “keyword.” Though it’s more of a “key phrase,” Just keep that in mind.

Meta Tag Description: Should be one sentance describing your product or service. Keep it short and to the point, it’s usually what comes up under the TITLE in search engines.

Normal Page Content: Should be a full paragraph or two.

Also note that you should pick only three to five keywords or key-phrases that are in all three places at the same. You should also place your main keyword in directly your product or service name.

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