Citrix Compatibility

Management Pack for Citrix XenServer is verified to be compatible with:

Management Pack for Citrix XenServer proactively manages Citrix XenServer infrastructure estates on a day-to-day basis, keeping operating costs low. Exposing both physical and virtual worlds in a single console will increase understanding of their dependencies and ensure business applications are completely under control from end-to-end and service levels high.

Key features

• Monitoring pools and shared storage – from changes in configuration, CPU and memory utilization across active hosts to VM migrations

• Identifying and alerting – from detection of hosts with high average, per-core CPU and memory utilization, high inbound/outbound average and per-NIC network traffic to identification of VMs with high CPU and memory utilization, and pinpointing VMs with high average inbound/outbound network traffic and VM state changes

• Performance reporting − visualizing shared storage configuration changes and utilization at the pool level, and representing historical CPU, memory, storage, NIC use and inbound/outbound network use at the host level

• Topology map − automatic discovery of XenServer pools, hosts, their resources, and active and unused VMs, as well as providing pool topology by tracking newly added hosts, VMs, and VM live migrations

Key benefits

Management Pack for Citrix XenServer is addressing a new set of challenges to sustain the benefits of server virtualization:

In hybrid datacenter environments business applications span several virtual and physical systems, and demand for management tools that would focus not only on virtualization, but have the necessary depth to cope with the complex mix of technologies − Management Pack for Citrix XenServer unifies monitoring of physical and XenServer based infrastructure in a single console and provides bottleneck analysis for simple problem solving

The right sizing of hosting hardware and identifying the correct VM placement are difficult optimization tasks and at the same time the key to successful virtualization − Citrix XenServer Management Pack allows for quick correlation of historical performance information across hosts and VMs

Many organizations have standardized on specific Enterprise Systems Management/Service Management tools and ITIL processes to optimize service delivery − Management Pack for Citrix XenServer leverages investment into System Center Operations Manager by allowing front-line monitoring personnel to supervise the XenServer estate on a day-to-day basis

Environments with several business applications that span virtual and physical systems with various hosting hardware and VM are rather complex − Management Pack for Citrix XenServer simplifies deployment, ensures XenServer infrastructure stability by using non-intrusive agentless monitoring approach, and increases the understanding of the dependencies of physical and virtual environment parts

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Operating environments

Management Pack for Citrix XenServer is compatible with Citrix XenServer; and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Best of Synergy Award 2011 Finalist

ComTrade's Management Pack for Citrix XenServer was selected among top 3 finalists for the Best of Synergy Award in the Best Partner Solution for Virtual Data Centers category at Citrix Synergy event, May 2011 in San Francisco.

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Through its partnership with Citrix, ComTrade is now offering a 60 day free trial to all XenServer customers. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE TRIAL.

60 day free trial

Through its partnership with Citrix, ComTrade is now offering a 60 day free trial to all XenServer customers. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE TRIAL.