Citrix Provisioning Server for Datacenters 4.5 provides breakthrough capabilities for delivering and managing IT infrastructures.

By virtualizing the workload of a datacenter server – operating system, applications and configuration – and streaming the workload on-demand to physical or virtual servers from the network, Provisioning Server for Datacenters 4.5 reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and improves both manageability and business agility.

Citrix Provisioning Server for Datacenters 4.5 provides:

On-Demand Server Workload Streaming

• Delivers the OS, applications, and server configuration information in a real-time stream, maximizing performance and minimizing network load
• Risk-free server workload rollout – roll back to previous working image in time it takes to reboot
• Minimizes downtime for roll forward, roll backward operations
• Maximizes boot performance
• Minimizes network load

Standard Server Workload Image Streaming

• Provisions multiple servers from a single virtual disk image
• Minimizes storage and image management requirements
• Ensures server build consistency

Dynamic server workload assignment

• Allows switching of server workloads in the time it takes to reboot
• Maximizes flexibility by enabling real-time changes to data center workloads
• Reduces the number of servers needed to support disaster recovery & business continuity requirements
• Up to 23% fewer servers needed – disk drives eliminated

High Availability

• Built-in support for redundant servers, networks, and databases
• Eliminates single points of failure
• Supports high datacenter SLA’s

Static or Dynamic Boot Configuration

• Chose between dynamic (DHCP/PXE) or static (USB or CD-ROM) bootstrap delivery and configuration
• Supports a variety of different datacenter infrastructure and management models

Windows and Linux OS Support

• Provision server workload images based on Windows Server or Linux operating systems