Citrix Hypervisor vs. VMware vSphere

Citrix Hypervisor continues to outmatch its more complex and expensive competitors, offering customers a comprehensive enterprise-level feature set while still providing a low-cost virtualization platform alternative to VMware vSphere. Citrix Hypervisor also leads the industry in 3D graphics support, delivering the only complete solution mobilizing Windows® and Linux® workloads for any use case.

Only Citrix Hypervisor

  • Secures your virtual infrastructure against advanced attacks and zero-day vulnerabilities with Hypervisor Introspection.
  • Reduces operational overhead and downtime with Live Patching, an industry-first capability.
  • Offers choice as the first hypervisor to support all 3 major GPU vendors’ virtualization offerings – NVIDIA Virtual GPU, AMD MxGPU, and Intel GVT-g.

Deep integration with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

A strong integration and alignment with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops ensure you can leverage unique app and desktop performance integrations only available with Citrix Hypervisor. This extended integration provides:

  • Product launch and product lifecycle date alignment, including a Long-Term Service Release (LTSR) with 5 years of mainstream support.
  • Unique capabilities such as PVS-Accelerator and MCS-Accelerator.
  • Entitlement to Citrix Hypervisor Premium for all customers, including customers of Citrix Cloud services.
  • Strong integration with Citrix Director, providing a single pane of glass for day-to-day management and the ability to view a virtual machines console within Citrix Director for easy troubleshooting.

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Intel is pleased to partner with Citrix XenServer to be first in the industry to enable Intel GVT-g support, allowing for Citrix XenDesktop to deliver remote virtual graphics and rich applications to a broad set of enterprise workers. This industry-first capability allows users to seamlessly access productivity and rich app, which require ever increasing graphics with unmatched level of density.

Jim Blakely
GM Visual Cloud Computing
Intel Corporation

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Citrix has really taken on the initiative of providing the most secure virtual computing platform in the market. What Citrix and Bitdefender have done with XenServer and Hypervisor Introspection is simply unparalleled. It is revolutionary.

Jeff Kater
Director of IT
Kansas Development Finance Authority

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The first thing I noticed with the new XenServer 7 is that everything is still familiar. Some of the new features I’m excited about include offline storage migration, XenServer Health Check, automated XenServer VM driver management via Windows Update, and the ability to access more than 128GB RAM for a VM. We love XenServer, some of our hosts have been running for more than 400 days with no problems.

Chad Bodiker
Senior System Administrator
University of Utah Hospital

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