Citrix® Essentials™ for Microsoft® Hyper-V™, offers advanced server virtualization management capabilities for Hyper-V to help Windows Server 2008 customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile environments for Hyper-V virtual machines.  The solution extends the enterprise management capabilities of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager in the areas of disaster recovery, storage management, provisioning services, and lab automation to maximize the benefits of deploying Hyper-V virtual infrastructure.

What’s New?

• Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V now includes Site Recovery

Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V provides server virtualization customers with a powerful set of advanced server virtualization management capabilities that extend the enterprise management capabilities of Windows Server 2008 environments to help make Hyper-V and System Center more scalable, more manageable and more agile.

Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V includes:

• Seamless storage integration Citrix StorageLink™ technology exposes the advanced data and storage management features in today’s storage systems directly to a Hyper-V environment.
• StorageLink Site Recovery allows organizations to easily implement and manage site-to-site disaster recovery for Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Automated lab management enables self service set-up and tear down of non-production Hyper-V virtual environments typically used in development, support and training organizations reducing management complexity, time and cost.
• Stage management streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering applications, using Hyper-V virtual machines, on-demand into production environments.
• Dynamic provisioning services provides simple deployment of workloads to any combination of Hyper-V virtual machines or physical Windows servers from a single golden image.
• Workflow orchestration enables customized automation of key management processes for Hyper-V virtual infrastructure.

“We see Citrix Essentials as a powerful extension that enables customers to accelerate their Hyper-V adoption in the enterprise in much the same way Citrix XenApp has extended the Windows Server platform for nearly 20 years in the application delivery arena.”

-  Mike Neil, general manager, virtualization strategy at Microsoft Corp.

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