Citrix Essentials™ for XenServer™ extends advanced server virtualization management capabilities to Citrix XenServer virtual machines to help customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile virtual server infrastructures. The solution supports the IT administrator throughout the application delivery lifecycle enabling optimized usage of computing resources through intelligent workload placement and rapid provisioning of new virtual machine resources on demand.  It also streamlines storage management in virtual environments with simple backup and maintenance through integration with existing storage platforms.

What’s New?

• Citrix announces project “Open Door” for customers switching from VMware to XenServer or Hyper-V
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• Citrix XenServer and Essentials 5.5 available now

Key benefiits of Citrix Essentials server virtualization management

• Seamless storage integration Citrix StorageLink™ technology exposes the advanced data and storage management features in today’s storage systems directly to the XenServer  server virtualization environment.
• Dynamic workload management provides granular visibility to real-time system performance and intelligently places and rebalances virtual workloads across XenServer resource pools to ensure optimal utilization and performance.
• Stage management streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering applications on demand into production environments.
• Automated lab management enables self service set-up and tear down of non-production environments typically used in development, support and training organizations reducing server virtualization management complexity, time and cost.
• Dynamic provisioning services provides simple deployment of workloads to any combination of virtual machines or physical servers from a single golden image.
• High availability for the automatic restart and intelligent placement of virtual machines in case of failure of guest or physical servers.
• Workflow orchestration enables customized  automation of key management processes.

One of the most powerful and innovative new features in the Citrix Essentials product line is the Citrix StorageLink™ technology, which dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of storage management with server virtualization by making it easy to leverage all the power of existing storage systems from within both XenServer and Hyper-V virtualization environments.

“Through its advanced StorageLink technology, Citrix Essentials provides our joint customers with one-click access to powerful storage efficiency and data management features inherent in all NetApp systems. This tight integration allows customers to keep storage management processes consistent and gain better virtual machine performance by offloading storage services to the storage network.”

-  Patrick Rogers, vice president of solutions marketing at NetApp

Learn more about Citrix Essentials for XenServer advanced server virtualization management:

• Features and Benefits
• How it Works
• Product Editions