Citrix® Essentials™ for XenServer™ extends advanced virtualisation management capabilities to Citrix XenServer environments to help customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile virtual infrastructures.  The solution extends the enterprise management capabilities XenServer in the areas of lab automation, storage management, provisioning services, workflow automation and high availability.

With the enterprise-class, cloud-proven XenServer platform now available for free unlimited use, customers with mixed Windows and Linux environments, significant investments in Citrix application delivery solutions, or plans to build “private clouds” can turn to Citrix XenServer.

Citrix Essentials for XenServer includes:

Automated Lab Management streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering applications on-demand throughout the full application lifecycle, from development labs to production servers.

Advanced Storage Integration featuring Citrix StorageLink™ technology fully leverages all the native power of third-party array-based storage systems making it easy for customers to manage advanced storage features directly from their virtualisation management environments.

Dynamic Provisioning Services reduces costs and optimises datacenter infrastructure by letting customers manage a common set of master workload images centrally, then stream them on-demand to any combination of virtual machines or physical servers.

Workflow Orchestration enables users to automate key management processes across their virtual infrastructure using common task libraries and a graphical workflow canvas.

High Availability delivers a broad range of powerful high availability options from automatic restart to workload balancing of virtual machines across resource pools based on preset thresholds.

One of the most powerful and innovative new features in the Citrix Essentials product line is the Citrix StorageLink™ technology, which dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of storage management by making it easy to leverage all the power of existing storage systems from within both XenServer and Hyper-V virtualisation environments.

The features that are available within Citrix Essentials for XenServer are listed to the right.

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