Citrix Xen Server 5 5

• 1. Citrix XenServer
  

2. Agenda
Whats New in XenServer and Citrix Essentials 5.5
Citrix Essentials Overview and Target Customers
Positioning Citrix Essentials for XenServer
Sales Strategies, Packaging & Pricing
3. Citrix Server Virtualization Strategy
Continue to enhance the XenServer virtualization platform
Focus on Delivery Center, heterogenous environments, and Cloud
Enable interoperability between Hyper-V and XenServer
4. XenServer The Performance Leader
5. Whats New in XenServer and Citrix Essentials 5.5
6. Key Go-To-Market Release Messages

• Enables customers to adopt virtualization while leveraging existing IT infrastructure and tool-set

7. Delivers additional necessary features for production management with lowest TCO 8. Drive more pervasive XenServer utilization in production environmentsEnterpriseIntegration

• Provides customers with lifecycle tools to improve application quality and time-to-market

9. Realize cost savings by adopting virtualization across organizations/functions 10. Drive XenServer utilization broadly in customer accountsWorkload Lifecycle Management
11. Key Features XenServer 5.5Cloud-Proven. Enterprise Class. Free.

• High-Performance, live VM disk snapshots

12. Auto-select software-based or SAN-based 13. GUI based administration 14. Enables third-party solutions to backup XenServer VMs 15. VSS-based interface 16. Fast cloning (10 seconds or less)Backup
Enablement
Active Directory Integration
Enhanced Snapshots

• Eliminate Single User Administration Model (root)

17. Login to XenCenter using AD credentials 18. Administrative Logs by user