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My CloudPlatform Cloud goes SSD with SolidFire!!
Last year some of you followed on the XenServer Facebook page with great interest the physical migration of my CloudPlatform demo cloud. Some even commented on how cool the storage I was using looked. Unfortunately, as anyone who has had to deal with datacenter hardware knows all too well, servers which are running might not start back up if powered down, and this is no ...
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XenServer Introduces Live Storage Migration with Storage XenMotion
Over the last several years XenServer competitors have presented several arguments against using XenServer, and often those arguments center around a feature they had which we didn’t. A perfect case in point was the issue of virtualization ROI and memory sharing. VMware was often ready to present that vSphere had better ROI due to their abilities to balloon, share and swap memory. Despite issues in ...
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XenServer 6.1 Releases
Over the past several months, literally hundreds of people have asked me the question “When will Tampa release?” I am pleased to announce that earlier today, “Tampa” officially reached GA as XenServer 6.1. Within engineering, this is officially considered a “cloud centric” release. While on the surface that would seem to indicate a lack of features for traditional server virtualization and desktop, but the reality ...
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XenServer “Warts” Exposed
There is always something a bit surreal about blog posts on the Internet; more so when older ones come back around. A case in point is this one from Sysconfig’s blog which was recently dredged up on twitter. In it he lists a series of things which he’s had to contend with, and details some of the steps needed to resolve them and what lead ...
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Enabling turnkey branch office virtualization
As some of you may remember, during Interop 2011 in Las Vegas there was a pretty cool interoperability lab created around OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking. This lab saw approximately 20 vendors demonstrate various levels of support for OpenFlow, and Citrix was there with XenServer. If you were there, you may recall that the XenServer OpenFlow demo involved switches from multiple vendors, as well as ...
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ESX is dead …. Now what ….
It was with very little fanfare, and is being lost in VMware’s latest attempt at maximizing revenue, but the venerable hypervisor which launched x86 virtualization, VMware ESX, has been put out to pasture. Sadly, VMware vSphere 5 no longer supports VMware ESX. This once gold standard of virtual infrastructure was so solid that realistically few even questioned purchasing it. Yes it’s had its share of ...
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XenServer Leadership Challenge
It’s been quite a busy week for us in XenServer land. Yesterday, I posted about XenServer being named to the Champions quadrant by Info-Tech Research Group, and the accolades kept on coming. The good folks over at Gartner have also named Citrix to the Leaders quadrant in their 2011 Magic Quadrant x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure report. We’ve joined perennial favorite VMware and fellow new leader ...
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XenServer – Virtualization Champion
With the NHL and NBA championships nicely behind us, it’s time for a new champion to be announced, and for some it’s going to come as a bit of a shock. The folks over at Info-Tech Research Group have just announced their 2011 Vendor Landscape, and Citrix XenServer is now squarely placed in the Champions quadrant alongside long time rival VMware. For those of us ...
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Go Deep at Synergy with “Ask the Experts”
With Citrix Synergy fast approaching, it's time to get the word out on an exciting addition to the Citrix Booth. This year we've carved out an area where attendees can go deep (very deep) with not only Citrix product architects and gurus, but industry experts from Intel, Marathon and Oracle. Our experts have been prepped that no question on the topic of the hour is too ...
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EdgeSight 5 – New and Cool
EdgeSight 5 for both XenApp and Endpoints was released last week with many changes, but for those of you who are already familiar with EdgeSight from it's 4.x days - you're probably wondering what those changes mean to you. Today I'm going to cover what's changed; what's new; and give you a taste of some of the cool things you can now do with EdgeSight. The ...