Citrix® XenServer™ is a server virtualisation system that makes datacentres more agile and efficient
through faster application delivery, higher levels of availability and improved utilisation of IT resources. XenServer delivers the advanced features required by mission critical workloads (operating systems,
applications and configurations) without sacrificing the ease-of-use necessary for wide-scale
deployments. And XenServer’s unique streaming technology can rapidly deliver workloads across
virtual or physical servers making it the ideal virtualisation platform for every server in the enterprise.
XenServer delivers the advanced features required by mission critical workloads (operating systems,
applications and configurations) without sacrifi cing the ease-of-use necessary for wide-scale
deployments. And XenServer’s unique streaming technology can rapidly deliver workloads across
virtual or physical servers making it the ideal virtualisation platform for every server in the enterprise.
With Citrix XenServer, businesses can make more effi cient use of server and storage resources.
XenServer can run more virtual machines on a single physical server thanks to its powerful open
source Xen® hypervisor, efficient CPU and memory management, and hardware assisted I/O
virtualisation. XenServer’s performance monitoring coupled with live migration and unique workload provisioning technology helps organisations balance computing resources across multiple servers
for enterprise-wide optimisation. These capabilities along with improved storage utilisation from
XenServer’s dynamic workload provisioning allow organisations to achieve dramatic savings in IT
administration, equipment, space, power and cooling.
Accelerate the delivery of server workloads
Citrix XenServer accelerates the delivery of applications through tools for provisioning server
workloads. XenServer allows multiple servers to boot and run from a single shared image by
dynamically provisioning server workloads to both virtual and physical servers. Dynamic workload
provisioning eliminates storage normally required for individual server workload images, speeds
the time to deliver applications and reduces the administrative burden of patching and upgrading
multiple servers. XenServer also includes virtual machine provisioning templates, live migration and
virtual machine auto placement allowing administrators to easily deploy and manage virtual server
workloads for faster IT delivery.
Simplify the management of virtual
infrastructure
XenServer includes powerful tools for managing virtual
servers and virtual storage infrastructure. A simple, scalable
management architecture allows XenServer users to group
physical servers and storage resources into pools whereby users
can easily provision, search, monitor, migrate and even protect
virtual machines with automated high availability. XenServer
also enables fl exible, yet simple storage management of
virtual machines by plugging directly into array-based storage
services such as thin provisioning, snapshots, replication and
deduplication.
