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Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V

On February 23, 2009, in Featured, by René Vester

So.. Citrix fired off the next chapter of their partnership with Microsoft as they announced their newest project, Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V.

Basically this means that Citrix will now deliver value-add on top of Hyper-V like they have done on top of Terminal Services for many years. From what i was able to gather from Citrix it seems that the main target with this is to get the same penetration for Citrix Virtualization technologies as they have had with their XenApp product line.

The features mentioned by Citrix are:

Automated Lab Management streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering throughout the application lifecycle, from development labs into the production environment.

Advanced Storage Integration featuring Citrix StorageLink™ technology exposes the advanced data and storage management features in today’s storage systems directly to a virtualized environment.

Dynamic Provisioning Services for the on-demand deployment of workloads to any combination of virtual machines or physical servers from a single golden image.

Workflow Orchestration for the simplified scripting to automation of key management processes.

High Availability for the automatic restart and intelligent placement of virtual machines in case of failure of guest systems or physical servers.

This sounds very interesting and i am looking forward to seeing how this will effect the deployments of Hyper-V.

There will be an Enterprise and Platinum version of the product, where the automated lab management feature will be the extra feature for the Platinum customers.

Udover Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V there will also be a Citrix Essentials for XenServer. So in fact now Citrix will add the ‘same’ valueadd on the XenServer and Hyper-V platform. For now it seems there will only be HA in the XenServer Essentials.

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René Vester

René Vester is a fulltime virtualization and server based computing enthusiast working for Conecto A/S a Danish Citrix specialist partner. René is the author of several blogs addressed to virtualization technologies and has authored many articles related to virtualization. He is a dedicated member of the community and spends the time he has sharing his experiences with vendors and peers. René is a Citrix Technology Professional and founder of the Danish Citrix User Group.

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