Citrix XenServer® 5.6. adds new features across the entire product line, enhancing the enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform with all the capabilities needed to create and manage a virtual infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of competing products.

Last year, Citrix introduced the Free Edition of XenServer, setting an entirely new standard in the industry by offering an enterprise-ready, cloud-proven server virtualization platform for no cost.  Since then, XenServer has been activated for production use in more than 45,000 enterprise datacenters worldwide, including 45 percent of the Fortune 500.  


“We started with the free version of Citrix XenServer and went on to deploy the Enterprise Edition in favor of competing products,” said Rutger Pannekoek, Manager of Services and Application Engineering, TomTom.  “Of course, the cost and quality were important, but we were especially attracted to the open source basis of the product combined with the commercial support by Citrix.  Now we have hundreds of virtual servers running on XenServer, which has enabled us to have an always-on and dynamic datacenter, with the ability to easily move workloads between physical servers when needed.”

Important changes include:
  • Dynamic Memory: a technology that offers overcommitting functionality while the functionality remains within a range of predefined limits
  • Automated Workload Balancing: offers the possibility to reduce power consumption by consolidating workloads and powering off unused hosts
  • Host Power Management: providing support for WOL and vendor-specific implementations (like HP & Dell)
  • Role-Based Administration: granual access control and execution rights within XenCenter
  • StorageLink Site Recovery: storage replication enabling recovery of a virtual infrastructure on a secondary site
  • Additional OS support: RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • Support for OVF import/export in XenCenter
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