Citrix XenServer Product Overview

Citrix XenServer , automation and advanced management tools for the datacenter

www.citrix.com The legacy model of one physical server to one application has proven costly, cumbersome and inefficient – and the virtualization of IT assets is fast becoming the standard at most organizations. However, while virtualization enables you to dramatically improve operations and do more with less, the high entry price of other virtualization technologies has become prohibitive for many organizations. Citrix® XenServer® breaks this standoff by providing customers with a production-ready virtualization platform for free.

Citrix XenServer SAP XenServer is an enterprise-class, cloud-proven server virtualization solution that radically reduces datacenter costs by transforming static and complex IT We expect that total costs for environments into more dynamic, easy-to-manage virtual datacenters. It provides “server infrastructure will be advanced management capabilities to integrate and automate virtual datacenters reduced by more than 35 at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. percent because of XenServer. In the future, we will need some XenServer is a complete virtual infrastructure solution that includes a 64-bit 70 percent fewer physical , an intuitive virtualization management console, live migration servers. In addition, we will capabilities, and the tools necessary to convert existing workloads from a save on administration and physical to virtual environment. XenServer allows organizations to create energy costs. and manage unlimited servers and virtual machines (VMs) that can be run safely and securely from a single management console. Customers that need ” Michael Markl, additional management, availability, integration or automation capabilities Global Service Owner, can simply upgrade to a premium edition of XenServer to create an enhanced SAP IT Infrastructure virtual datacenter. The Advanced, Enterprise and Platinum Editions of XenServer Communication Services, SAP AG offer rich management and automation capabilities that provide full datacenter automation, advanced integration and management, and key performance optimization features.

Based on the open-source design of , XenServer is a highly reliable, WEC Health Unit available and secure virtualization platform that provides near native application performance and unmatched density. XenServer We tried VMware first… but allows for easy server, storage and network setup via an intuitive, wizard- “when we benchmarked VMware driven utility that delivers Ten Minutes to Xen. vs. Citrix, the XenServer actual- ly performed significantly better With XenServer, customers can create a high-performance, scalable, manageable than the VMware solution, and and flexible virtual server infrastructure on top of which automated, lights we ended up, from that, going out and cloud ready virtual datacenter services can be delivered. Key features the direction of choosing Citrix of the XenServer solution include: as our virtualization platform for our servers… Citrix XenCenter management console ® ® ” Citrix XenCenter provides all VM monitoring, management and general Fernando Bayuga Jr., administration functions in a single interface that allows the IT staff to easily IT Manager, WEC Health Unit manage hundreds of VMs from a centralized, highly available management console that installs on any Windows® desktop.

Distributed virtual switching XenServer includes the tools necessary to create a multi-tenant, isolated and extremely flexible virtual network fabric. This policy-driven fabric ensures that a VMs network configuration follows the VM as it is migrated within a resource pool. Policies are defined at the virtual network level guaranteeing that network security requirements are met regardless of guest VM configurations.

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Dynamic workload balancing XenServer improves system utilization and increases application performance by automatically balancing virtual machines based on user-defined policy within a resource pool both for initial placement and ongoing operations.

High availability XenServer automatically moves and restarts virtual machines if a failure occurs at the VM, hypervisor or server level. The auto-restart capability allows administrators to protect all virtualized applications and bring Linux Magazine higher levels of availability to the business.

Host power management Does XenServer pass the ‘first “impression’ test? Yes. It offers XenServer takes advantage of embedded hardware features to dynamically speed, flexibility, scalability, reallocate VMs and powers on and off hosts as demand for resources fluctuate. ease of use, and a price that Disaster recovery will make your accountant grin. ” XenServer includes disaster recovery features that provide site-to-site disaster Ken Hess, recovery planning and services for virtual environments. These features are Linux Magazine easy to set up, fast to recover and have the ability to frequently test plans to ensure that they always remain valid.

IntelliCache Enterprise Strategy Group XenServer is able to utilize local storage as a repository for boot images and non-persistent or temporary data to decrease network storage volume and Anyone who dismissed traffic for XenDesktop installations. “XenServer in the past as a legitimate player in the Memory optimization enterprise virtualization space XenServer reduces costs and improves application performance and protection clearly owes it to themselves by sharing unused server memory between VMs on the host server. to take a look at this offering. ” Provisioning services Mark Bowker, Citrix Provisioning Services™ reduces storage requirements by creating a set Enterprise Strategy Group of golden images that can be streamed to both physical and virtual servers for fast, consistent and reliable deployments.

Role-based administration Role-based administration for XenServer improves security and enables delegated access, control and usage of resource pools by maintaining a tiered access structure with varying levels of permissions.

Citrix StorageLink Citrix® StorageLink™ provides integration with leading network storage platforms which enables storage managers to leverage existing data management tools to maintain consistent management processes for both physical and virtual environments.

VM protection and recovery XenServer protects against data loss in case of VM failure by automatically taking regularly scheduled VM snapshots and archiving the images in a specified storage location.

3 Web console with delegated admin Web self-service provides IT administrators with a simple web-based console to delegate individual VM rights to application owners as well as a way for application owners to manage day to day operations of their VMs.

Citrix XenConvert Citrix XenConvert allows for faster setup and migration of physical and virtual servers (P2V and V2V) making the transformation to XenServer nearly instantaneous.

Citrix XenMotion Citrix® XenMotion® eliminates the need for planned downtime by enabling active VMs to be moved to a new host with no application outages or downtime. vApps A vApp is a collection of one or more virtual machines representing an application. The vApp combines these virtual machines into a virtual appliance. Virtual appliances can be managed as a unit in XenCenter, and can contain critical configuration information such as VM startup sequencing. A vApp can be assigned to a high availability configuration, and directly included in disaster recovery planning through Integrated Site Recovery.

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