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XenServer 5 Available Now
Citrix is pleased to introduce Citrix®XenServer™ 5, which boasts a number of significant enhancements, including new business continuity, storage infrastructure and virtualisation management tools. XenServer 5 includes robust features required by mission-critical workloads while offering the ease-of-use necessary for general purpose deployment. This release builds on XenServer's blazing-fast bare metal performance by adding support and performance optimisation for Windows Server 2008 as well as guest support for many new versions of both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux operating systems. XenServer 5 also includes enhancements to dynamic workload streaming technology which speeds deployment and reduces costs associated with application delivery on both virtual and physical servers. And with a price tag that allows for ubiquitous deployment, Citrix XenServer 5 truly is
virtualisation for every server in the enterprise.
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The Value of XenServer for Your Business
Among the many new features of XenServer 5 are automated high availability, disaster recovery support and expanded storage and guest operating system support. Citrix partners can help customers realise the value of XenServer virtualisation throughout the enterprise by deploying XenServer virtualisation and dynamic workload streaming (provisioning) technologies on more servers across more sites. XenServer Platinum Edition provides the opportunity to increase revenue opportunities through services and license revenue associated with new virtualisation projects as well as customer upgrades to existing deployments to maximise profitability on license revenue, Subscription Advantage and Advisor Rewards. A Product Bulletin is also being sent to current XenServer customers to familiarise them with all the great, new features in XenServer 5. |
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XenServer 5 Highlights
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| Business Continuity Enhancements |
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Automated high availability (HA) restarts virtual machines on another physical server according to priority and resource availability. |
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Redundant networking and support for disaster recovery via remote replication. |
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| Virtualisation Management and Usability |
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Simple, powerful tagging and advanced searching capabilities across virtual machines, hosts and resource pools. |
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Persistent performance statistics across resource pools provide real time monitoring as well as graphical trending of virtual and physical machine performance. |
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Physical to virtual (P2V) conversion tools to ease the transition from physical to virtual machines. |
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| Dynamic Workload Management |
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Stream server workloads on-demand to multiple physical or virtual servers from a single, shared operating system image. |
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Live migration of virtual machines between physical servers for zero downtime server maintenance. |
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| Virtual Storage Infrastructure |
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Citrix XenServer Adapter for Dell EqualLogic provides integrated access to advanced storage services. |
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New storage workflows to edit settings on storage repositories. |
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Improved performance and redundant I/O links enabled with multi-path I/O support. |
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| Additional Server OS Guest Support |
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XenServer 5 adds support for Windows Server® 2008 32-bit and 64-bit as well as Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Vista Service Pack 1. |
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Linux guest support now includes new versions of SUSE Enterprise Linux 9, 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7, 5.2. |
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For a tour of XenServer 5 visit www.xenserver.com
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