How Essentials for Hyper-V works

Citrix Essentials™ for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ provides the tools needed to automate datacenter processes for Hyper-V infrastructures. Essentials for Hyper-V integrates with Microsoft System Center to add advanced capabilities that automate a Hyper-V based virtual infrastructure.

Reduce cost and complexity of managing storage

Deliver countless workloads from a single image

Automate your lab and stage management infrastructure

Tie your infrastructure together through workflows

StorageLink™ integrates with leading storage platforms to reduce the cost and complexity of managing storage in Hyper-V environments directly from within its Microsoft® Management Console. Site Recovery provides site-to-site disaster recovery for virtual environments.

Dynamic Provisioning services instantly delivers any number of workloads from a single server image. It even allows administrators to provision complete Windows Server® 2008 images, including the hypervisor, to bare metal machines, with or without internal disks.

Lab Manager and Stage Manager let administrators create customizable and automated workflow's that define and instantly enable multi-machine configurations for development, integration testing and pre-production staging.

Built on top of Windows® PowerShell™ and Windows Workflow Foundation, Workflow Studio orchestration provides an easy-to-use, graphical interface for workflow composition that virtually eliminates scripting.

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Get started with Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V today

Download the Express Edition for free or sign up for the 30-day trial of Essentials for Hyper-V Platinum Edition. Then perform key datacenter virtualization tasks testing the Essentials for Hyper-V feature in live production environments. Download now

Evaluate Essentials for Hyper-V

After testing that Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V will make a difference in your datacenter, you must decide which edition best meets your virtualization needs. The Enterprise and Platinum Editions add valuable features to the free Express Edition. Compare Editions