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09-16-2008, 10:00 PM
Citrix Systems has rolled out XenServer 5 -- a next-generation server platform that promises to reduce the complexity of virtualization deployments. To keep things simple, XenServer 5 integrates new configuration wizards and intuitive interfaces, together with point-and-click conversion of physical servers into virtual machines.
Even better, the platform's dynamic workload-provisioning capabilities will allow hundreds of workloads to be instantly booted and delivered from a single image with one click -- even when the target servers have no locally attached disk or hypervisor. According to internal company tests, the technology can immediately reduce the storage footprint required to run common enterprise tasks by as much as 80 percent.
"XenServer 5 is going to completely change the way a lot of people think about server virtualization," said Lou Shipley, general manager of the XenServer product group at Citrix Systems.
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The XenServer 5 platform -- which is based on the same open-source Xen hypervisor that powers most of the world's largest computing "clouds" -- has been validated through Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validated Program for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems from AMD and Intel.
"We're working with Citrix to standardize on a common virtualization format, develop virtual machine interoperability and portability between XenServer 5 and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, enable cooperative technical support, and use Microsoft System Center as a common management framework," said Zane Adam, senior director of integrated virtualization at Microsoft.
Together with support for replication and remote-mirroring architectures, Citrix said it has added more than 100 new virtualization-management features to XenServer 5. Moreover, the new platform's distributed-management architecture helps to prevent a single point of failure from bringing down all the servers across an entire data center, the company said.
What's more, XenServer 5 features built-in replication for virtual machine metadata information, which should make it easier for data-center...
More... (http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=61910)
Even better, the platform's dynamic workload-provisioning capabilities will allow hundreds of workloads to be instantly booted and delivered from a single image with one click -- even when the target servers have no locally attached disk or hypervisor. According to internal company tests, the technology can immediately reduce the storage footprint required to run common enterprise tasks by as much as 80 percent.
"XenServer 5 is going to completely change the way a lot of people think about server virtualization," said Lou Shipley, general manager of the XenServer product group at Citrix Systems.
Recovery Support
The XenServer 5 platform -- which is based on the same open-source Xen hypervisor that powers most of the world's largest computing "clouds" -- has been validated through Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validated Program for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems from AMD and Intel.
"We're working with Citrix to standardize on a common virtualization format, develop virtual machine interoperability and portability between XenServer 5 and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, enable cooperative technical support, and use Microsoft System Center as a common management framework," said Zane Adam, senior director of integrated virtualization at Microsoft.
Together with support for replication and remote-mirroring architectures, Citrix said it has added more than 100 new virtualization-management features to XenServer 5. Moreover, the new platform's distributed-management architecture helps to prevent a single point of failure from bringing down all the servers across an entire data center, the company said.
What's more, XenServer 5 features built-in replication for virtual machine metadata information, which should make it easier for data-center...
More... (http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=61910)