What's new in XenServer

What's new in XenServer

Version 5.6 Feature Pack 1

Feature

XenServer

XenServer

Advanced

XenServer

Enterprise

XenServer

Platinum

64
-
bit
Xen

Hypervisor

a

a

a

a

Active Directory Integration

a

a

a

a

Conversion Utility

(P2V, V2V & OVF)

a

a

a

a

IntelliCache
™

for
XenDesktop

Storage Optimization

a

a

a

a

Live Migration with XenMotion™

a

a

a

a

Multi
-
Server Management with XenCenter

a

a

a

a

VM Disk Snapshot & Revert

a

a

a

a

Distributed Virtual Switching

a

a

a

Dynamic Memory Control

a

a

a

High Availability

a

a

a

Mixed Resource Pools with

CPU Masking

a

a

a

Dynamic Workload Balancing & Power Management

a

a

Live Memory Snapshot

& Revert

a

a

Provisioning Services for

V
irtual Servers

a

a

Role Based Administration & Audit

Trail

a

a

StorageLink
™ Advanced Storage Management

a

a

Web Management Console with Delegated Admin

a

a

Automated VM Protection and Recovery

a

Lab

Manager with Self
-
Service Portal

a

Provisioning

Services for Physical Servers

a

StorageLink
™ Site Recovery

a

Free

$1000/server

$2500/server

$5000/server

XenServer 5.6
Features




Summary of Key Features and Packages

XenServer

•

Enhanced Performance & Scale

•

Improved Platform Supportability Limits

•

Intellicache

for
XenDesktop

Storage Optimization

•

Administrative enhancements

•

Integrated Open Virtual Switch

XenServer

Platinum

•

StorageLink
–

Site Recovery

•

Self
-
Service Portal Functionality

•

Automated VM Protection and Recovery

XenServer

Enterprise

•

Web Management Console with Delegated Admin

•

Role
-
Based Administration & Audit

•

Live Memory Snapshot and Rollback

•

Dynamic Workload Balancing & Power Management

Citrix Confidential
–

Subject to NDA

XenServer

Advanced

•

High Availability

•

Dynamic Memory Control

•

Email Alerting and Historical Performance Analysis

•
Distributed Virtual Switch Controller

•
Increased host support limits

•
Memory support of 512GB per host

•
Support for 64 logical processors per host

•
Dynamic Memory Control increases host scalability

•
Network performance

•
16 NICs per host

•
Initial SR
-
IOV support for
NetScaler

VPX

•
Increased VM Density for
XenDesktop

•
Increased support limits

•
Auto
-
adjusted Dom0 memory configuration

•
Increased OS Support

•
RHEL,
CentOS
, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 support

•
SLES 10 SP3 support

XenServer

Enhanced for Performance, Scale & Support

Citrix Confidential
–

Subject to NDA

•
Single point of administration

•
Manage VMs from anywhere

•
Multiple servers

•
Included with
XenServer

XenCenter

Console

IntelliCache

Golden

Image

Pagefile

R/W

•
Leverage local
storage
as
cache

•
Keep non
-
persistent data
local;
Delete on reboot

•
N
on
-
persistent high write IOP traffic
to
SSD,

local
storage, or dedicated
storage

•
Cache golden image on
local
storage

•
Local
caching
for synchronous
&
asynchronous

write
back

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

Distributed Virtual Network Switching

•
Virtual Switch

•
Open source:
www.openvswitch.org

•
Provides a rich layer 2 feature set

•
Cross host internal networks

•
Rich traffic monitoring options

•
DVS Controller

•
Virtual appliance

•
Web
-
based GUI

•
Can manage multiple pools

•
Can exist within pool it manages


VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

Web Console & Delegated Admin

•
Provide users access
to
specific
VMs without needing
to use
XenCenter

•
Enables:

•
Enables IT delegation for administrators

•
VM
level

administration for end users

•
Supports for
multiple pools

•
Support
for Active Directory

(
via
XenServer)
or local users

•
Includes Console access

(via VNC and RDP)

VM Protection & Recovery

•
Policy based snapshotting and
archiving for VMs

•
Separate scheduling options for
snapshot and archive

•
Snapshot
-
only or Snapshot & Archive

•
Policy Configuration

•
Add multiple VMs to policy

•
Search filter available

•
VM can only belong to 1 policy

•
XenCenter

or CLI