White Papers

Green IT: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

This white paper explains how Citrix solutions can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment, by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop.

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A Comparison of Citrix XenServer and VMware

This document provides a technical and commercial comparison of XenServer and vSphere, including installation and maintenence, OS support, high  vailability, disaster recovery and other important  virtualization concerns that should be weighed when exploring virtualization solution options.

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Citrix and NetApp together, deliver a harmonious virtualized IT environment

This IDC White Paper takes a specific look at the business value associated with the movement from a non-virtualized server infrastructure to a server infrastructure where hypervisor technology is an integral component of the overall system architecture.

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Citrix XenServer5: Optimized Performance for XenApp Compared to VMware ESX 3.5u3

Testing by Tolly shows that Citrix XenServer, which includes specific optimizations for XenApp, highlights the performance improvements that customers can obtain when choosing XenServer over a VMware Virtual Infrastructure in their XenApp Virtual Server farms. In these tests, Citrix XenServer 5 outperformed VMWare ESX3.5u3 by supporting 41% more concurrent users.

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Comparison of Citrix XenServer on Intel E5405 vs. Intel Nehalem E5570

This paper explores the difference in performance between an Intel® Xeon® E5405 and the Nehalem Xeon E5570 processors in a Citrix XenServer™ 5.0 virtual host server environment based on simulated a Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 transaction processing.

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The three levels of high availability – Balancing priorities and cost

Citrix and Marathon have enhanced the Essentials for XenServer environment to run applications at availability levels that range from routine recovery and restart operations to complete fault tolerance. Together, XenServer and Marathon everRun offer availability solutions at attractive price points to match every business or application need, without adding complexity.

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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange  Server 2007 with Citrix XenServer

E-mail is a highly critical application, and Microsoft Exchange is the most widely used platform. The best way to scale Exchange is  with XenServer 5 virtualization - to support more users with fewer resources. XenMotion and HA make it possible to deliver uninterrupted service
and to manage server farms dynamically.

This paper shows that Exchange Server can be virtualized well on Citrix XenServer, and provides a  blueprint for IT teams to do their own validation.

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Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Citrix XenServer

In this paper Citrix demonstrate the benefits of virtualizing Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 with Citrix® XenServer™, including transaction processing performance comparisons between running SQL Server on XenServer 5.0, non-virtualized servers, and another industry leading server virtualization provider.  In addition to consolidation benefits, the study explores manageability and flexibility, availability and scalability factors.

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XenApp Server Consolidation with XenServer on Intel Nehalem x5570 Hosts

This paper explores 32-bit Citrix XenApp server consolidation rates when virtualized with Citrix XenServer™ 5.5 on the latest Intel® Xeon® x5570 (Nehalem) servers as compared to native Intel® Xeon® x7350 servers. The advantages of Intel’s Hyperthreading technology are also demonstrated, producing server consolidation rates of up to 12:1 for XenApp workloads.

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