Citrix Essentials for XenServer
Advanced virtualization management for XenServer
Citrix® Essentials™ for XenServer™ extends advanced virtualization
management capabilities to Citrix XenServer environments to help
customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile virtual
infrastructures. The solution extends the enterprise management
capabilities of XenServer in the areas of lab automation, storage
management, provisioning services, workflow automation and high
availability.
With the enterprise-class, cloud-proven XenServer platform now
available for free unlimited use, customers with mixed Windows® and
Linux environments, significant investments in Citrix application
delivery solutions, or plans to build
private clouds can turn to Citrix XenServer.
Citrix Essentials for XenServer includes:
- Automated lab management streamlines the process of
building, testing, sharing and delivering applications on-demand
throughout the full application lifecycle, from development labs to
production servers.
- Advanced storage integration
featuring Citrix StorageLink™ technology fully leverages all the native
power of third-party array-based storage systems making it easy for
customers to manage advanced storage features directly from their
virtualization management environments.
- Dynamic provisioning services
reduces costs and optimizes datacenter infrastructure by letting
customers manage a common set of master workload images centrally, then
stream them on-demand to any combination of virtual machines or
physical servers.
- Workflow orchestration enables users
to automate key management processes across their virtual
infrastructure using common task libraries and a graphical workflow
canvas.
- High availability delivers a broad range of
powerful high availability options from automatic restart to workload
balancing of virtual machines across resource pools based on preset
thresholds.
One of the most powerful and innovative new features in the Citrix
Essentials product line is the Citrix StorageLink™ technology, which
dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of storage management by
making it easy to leverage all the power of existing storage systems
from within both XenServer and Hyper-V virtualization environments.
