Seamless storage integration
Citrix® Essentials™ for XenServer featuring StorageLink™ technology delivers deep integration with leading storage platforms to reduce the cost and complexity of managing storage in XenServer environments. StorageLink provides one-click access to native storage devices for simplified management through storage configuration wizards that leverage existing storage array-based services. Essentials for XenServer with StorageLink supports all storage architectures, including SMI-S based, to deliver faster virtual machine deployment and lower storage management TCO in virtual environments. Learn how it works.
Dynamic workload balancing
Citrix Dynamic workload balancing enables policy-based movement of live virtual machines across physical servers based on customizable rules and performance thresholds. As demand increases, new workloads can be assigned to existing servers with available resources reducing server sprawl; as demand decreases or maintenance is required, business services can be seamlessly moved to reduce the amount of physical hardware that is operating, reducing energy consumption and eliminating service interruptions.Learn how it works.
Automated lab management
Essentials for XenServer automates the management of lab infrastructures to reduce the complexity, time and cost of managing non-production environments typically used in development, test, support and training organizations. Lab management capabilities included in Essentials for XenServer automate the setup and tear-down of complex application workload configurations, provide self-service template libraries for rapid provisioning, reduce virtual machine sprawl and enable cross-team collaboration on common virtual environments. With Essentials for XenServer, organizations can accelerate and improve the process of moving applications workloads through testing and into the production environment while reducing virtual machine sprawl and minimizing configuration errors and delays. Learn how it works.
Stage management
Citrix Essentials streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering applications on-demand into production environments for XenServer and Hyper-V customers. Administrators can create customizable workflows that define multi-machine configurations and move them through pre-production staging and integration testing processes, improving quality and minimizing the time to deploy critical updates or new business services. Learn how it works.
Dynamic provisioning services
Essentials for XenServer accelerates the delivery of server workloads, dramatically improves IT agility and simplifies ongoing IT administration by dynamically provisioning application workloads from a single server image. With Essentials for XenServer, organizations can reduce both the storage costs and the burden of patching, maintaining, testing and supporting hundreds of separate server images. Essentials for XenServer further improves IT efficiencies with its broad coverage for datacenter infrastructure by provisioning workloads to both physical and virtual servers. Learn how it works.
High availability
XenServer resource pools can be configured with automated high-availability protection allowing virtual machines on a failed host to automatically restart on another physical server according to priority and resource availability. Essentials for Xenserver provides a range high availability offerings, from automatic restart of hosts and virtual machines after a hardware failure through full fault tolerance of hardware and applications. Learn how it works.
Workflow orchestration
Citrix Workflow Studio™ is an infrastructure process automation platform that enables you to transform your datacenter into a dynamic delivery center. Built on top of Windows® PowerShell™ and Windows Workflow Foundation, Workflow Studio provides an easy-to-use, graphical interface for workflow composition that virtually eliminates scripting. Workflow Studio orchestration acts as the glue across the IT infrastructure allowing administrators to easily tie technology components together via workflows. Learn how it works.