Blog posts tagged with 'xenserver'
Citrix technologies have been around for almost 20 years, we have helped other companies to stay on their feet during time of economic crisis by implementing access and application virtualization technologies that not only helped them succeed with their business needs but also reduced their operational costs.
With the economy outlook looking so obscure, companies have begun seeking for new ways to reduce costs while challenged to provide their customers with unchanged level of services and products.
Understanding what technologies to invest in times like this can be crucial decision; while researching some market trends I stumbled upon a recent post on ZDNet by Dan Kusnetzky with the title "Can virtualization help when times get tough?"
After a brief analysis Dan pointed our six ways virtualization can help a company financially, here they are:
- Access virtualization, such as that offered by Citrix and Microsoft, can make it possible for administrative and operational cost reductions while still making needed applications available in a secure, reliable way.
- Application virtualization, such as that offered by Citrix, Microsoft and many others, can make it possible for applications to be made available to staff members in a reliable way and even make it easier to update these applications without having to visit each and every laptop or desktop computer.
- Processing virtualization, such as that offered by Citrix, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Virtual Iron and many others can either allow many machines to work together to get tasks done more quickly to optimize staff member's time or consolidate tasks onto a smaller number of physical machines. This approach can result in hardware, software, operational and administrative cost reductions.
- Network virtualization can make it possible to reduce the costs of administrative and operating costs.
- Storage virtualization can do for storage what processing virtualization does for processing.
- Management and security software for virtualized environments may be the area having the biggest opportunity for cost reduction.
Citrix was mentioned not once or twice, but at least 3 times and shows how we've managed to grow exponentially our portfolio; Citrix is now more than ever the ONLY end-to-end virtualization company from Network (NetScaler, WanScaler), Server (XenServer, Provisioning Server), Application (XenApp) all the way to Desktop (XenDesktop).
To compliment the great work done by Dan pointing out the values of virtualization, I will list below some extra reading that can help you define the best strategy to save money while using virtualization technologies:
The Economic Impact of Provisioning Server Streaming Platform
This study describes the financial impact of moving from a traditional datacenter environment, where individual servers are dedicated to specific functions, to an environment where applications and content are streamed to an individual server that exists in a pool of shared servers dynamically using Provisioning Server.
Virtual Desktop ROI Calculator
Calculate your savings with a desktop delivery solution you can take to the bank!
Green IT: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint with Citrix
This white paper explains how Citrix solutions can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment, by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop.
For more, visit: Citrix.com/Solutions
Best,
Gus
PS. Sorry if some of the links require a sign up; I hate signing up for stuff, but these docs are totally worth it...
...And don't forget to check out Chris Fleck's posts about Cloud Economics:
XenServer 5 has just been released, and now we can talk about experiencing zero downtime with live migration. With XenMotion, virtual machines can be moved from server to server without service interruption for zero-downtime server maintenance or to seamlessly balance available compute power within a pool of physical servers.
Here's a cool demo of this new XenServer 5 Feature:
Get your weekends back by managing and maintaining your physical hardware during business hours...
For more on XenServer 5 check out XenServer5.com
You can also download a copy of XenServer 5 right here.
Nothing like seeing a product in action...
I could crank out dozen of posts but they would all be very superficial until I could actually show you guys this solution in action.
Instead of going down the written path alluding to the product's functionality, I will share with you a couple of demos showing some of the gained functionalities when OEMing the Xen hypervisor within the Dell PowerEdge servers.
Check out these two demos from XenSource.com:
Fast Virtual Machine Cloning Demo
Hot Add/Remove Resources Demo
cheers,
Gus Pinto
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This part we will understand more about the OEM relationship between Citrix and Dell including factory integration with Dell PowerEdge servers and OpenManage Systems Management software.
Instead of typing it away, I will share a video where Simon Crosby elaborates on this topic.
cheers,
Gus Pinto
Dell has recently announced it will integrate XenServer as the hypervisor for their PowerEdge line of servers. I have gathered some more information on how this will actually work out...
Dell factory will integrate Citrix XenServer into Dell PowerEdge platforms, Citrix and Dell provide a simpler deployment and management environment that speeds adoption of flexible, cost-saving server virtualization technology, making it the optimal choice for virtualization on Dell systems.
Highlights include:
- Quick Start-up - An embedded hypervisor and intuitive interface into Citrix XenServer Dell products ensure easy installation.
- OpenManage Integration - The only virtualization solution integrated with Dell OpenManage, Citrix XenServer management console allows users to monitor and manage physical and virtual machines from a single console, with simple drag and drop controls.
- High performance - With a thin layer of code, true 64-bit hypervisor architecture and full use of hardware virtualization optimization from Intel and AMD, Citrix.
cheers,
Gus Pinto
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The following Citrix virtualization white paper discusses how Citrix XenServer provides simple, economical server virtualization designed for easy implementation in any IT environment. From the simplicity of "10 Minutes to Xen" installation to a full range of complementary, best-of-breed solutions from independent solution providers, Citrix XenServer offers innovative, cost-effective solutions for application availability, business continuity, rapid provisioning, and end-to-end visibility and management across virtual and physical environments.
Adoption of virtualization is concentrated among large enterprises, while adoption by mid-sized companies has been much slower. For these companies, enterprise-focused virtualization solutions often present barriers including:
- fragmentation between new, virtualization-ready operating systems and legacy platforms running mission-critical applications
- application performance constrained by storage and network I/O on virtualized servers
- server and storage constraints imposed by virtualization platform providers
- security and resiliency concerns raised when multiple critical applications run on the same hardware
- implementation hurdles created by complex interdependencies and demanding installation protocols
- vendor lock-in issues, raising pricing and support risks many companies prefer to avoid
- application delivery constraints imposed at virtual/physical boundaries
Download the white paper here: Virtualization Everywhere
Check out this video excerpt from Citrix Summit 08 of Citrix Delivery Center and its amazingly fast and easy provisioning of application workloads to virtual and physical servers. Presented by Pete Downing and Brad Peterson.
You've heard all the buzz around XenServer, but don't have a clue what it is or what it does!
If that sounds like you, then I highly recommend you to watch this on-demand webcast to learn more about server virtualization and how you can get it done with XenServer.
This white paper will discuss how customers can achieve faster deployment, higher reliability, easier management, and reduced server foot print by virtualizing Citrix XenApp using XenServer.
You can also listen to the postcast around this subject:
cheers,
Gus
In this podcast you will learn the benefits of Virtualizing XenApp (Presentation Server) with XenServer...
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