Enterprise-class, cloud-proven

Citrix® XenServer® has fast become a leading server virtualization technology with over 45,000 customers and enterprise-class features that rival competing virtualization platforms. XenServer, as reviewed by Allan Stevens of ZDnet, “is very much a production-class virtualization solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what’s available on rival platforms.”

  • Best virtualization value – Offering the power of industry-leading server virtualization at no cost, the Xen® hypervisor extends your server consolidation savings into capital equipment, space, power, and cooling costs.
  • Enterprise-class features – Centralized management and live virtual machine migration enables organizations to manage their environment easily and intelligently while optimizing resources with zero downtime to users.
  • Easy setup and administration – XenServer can be installed and running in 10 minutes and has a unique management architecture and console that eliminates single points of failure, lets you centrally manage hundreds of virtual servers and installs with only four megabytes of storage.

Available at no cost, XenServer gives organizations a way to widely adopt an enterprise-class, cloud-proven server virtualization platform—to leverage server consolidation and dramatically affect the economics of delivering IT.

 

Analyst Quote: Anyone who dismissed XenServer in the past as a legitimate player in the enterprise virtualization space clearly owes it to themselves to take a look at this offering. - Mark Bowker, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

Analyst Quote: Anyone who dismissed XenServer in the past as a legitimate player in the enterprise virtualization space clearly owes it to themselves to take a look at this offering. - Mark Bowker, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.  

XenServer versus the competition

 

By providing features such as live migration, shared storage support, centralized multi-server management plus P2V and V2V conversion tools in the free version, XenServer enables any organization, no matter the size or budget, to immediately benefit from the power of server virtualization for consolidation, business continuity, and agility. More information on the differences between XenServer and VMware can be found in this white paper.

 
Features included in free editions Citrix XenServer VMware ESXi
Hypervisor
platform
Live Motion Available  
Shared SAN and NAS storage Available Available
Unlimited servers, virtual machines, memory Available Available
Windows® and Linux® guests Available Available
Management
console
Centralized configuration management Available  
Centralized multi-server management Available  
Intelligent server maintenance mode Available  
Physical to VIrtual and Virtual to Virtual conversion Available Available
Resilient distributed management architecture Available  
Shared virtual machine template library Available  
Virtual infrastructure patch management Available  
     
   
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