Get a complete virtual infrastructure including a 64-bit hypervisor with live migration, centralized management for virtual machines & hosts and a full complement of tools to get virtual environments up and running quickly.

XenServer

XenServer is a highly reliable and secure open-source virtualization platform based on the Xen design that utilizes a 64-bit architecture to provide near native application performance and unmatched density. XenServer allows for easy server, storage, and network setup via an intuitive wizard-driven utility that delivers Ten Minutes to Xen. Disk snapshot and revert creates periodic snapshots of virtual machines for easy data recovery of  a known working state in case of failure. Disk snapshots can also be cloned to speed system provisioning.

Conversion Tools

Convert physical and virtual servers (P2V and/or V2V) for faster setup and migration making the transformation to XenServer nearly instantaneous. The conversion tools included in XenServer can convert any physical server or desktop workload and existing virtual machines to a XenServer virtual machine.

XenCenter Multi-Server Management

Citrix XenCenter provides all the virtual machine management, monitoring and general administration, and general administration functions in a single interface including configuration, patch management, and virtual machine libraries. IT staff can easily manage hundreds of virtual machines from a centralized, highly available management console that installs on any Windows® desktop. The Resilient Distributed Management Architecture distributes server management data across the servers in a resource pool to ensure that there is no single point of management failure. If a management server should fail, any other server in the pool can take over the management role.

XenMotion

Citrix XenMotion eliminates the need for planned downtime by enabling active virtual machines  to be moved to a new host with no application outages or downtime.

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