Software

Citrix Essentials™ for XenServer ™ Dell Edition virtualization software is designed to help customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile virtual infrastructures. The solution supports IT administrators throughout the application delivery lifecycle to help enable:

• Optimized usage of computing resources through intelligent workload placement
• Rapid provisioning of new resources on demand
• Simplification of backup and maintenance through integration with existing storage platforms

Uniquely Open

Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition is based on the open source Xen® hypervisor, which delivers near-native performance. Unlike other virtualization products that are built on closed proprietary systems, XenServer’s open application programming interfaces (API) allow customers to access and control advanced functions from their existing server and storage hardware.

Leveraging both Intel® VT platforms and AMD® Virtualization (AMD-V™) platforms for hardware-assisted virtualization, Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition delivers faster, more efficient virtualization computing.

Radically Simple

Ease of use comes first with Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition. Software features, including configuration wizards, intuitive interfaces, and easy point-and-click conversion of physical servers into virtual machines help simplify your transition to virtualization. Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition also helps you:

• Manage Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell EqualLogic storage arrays easily through integrated management functionality with Citrix XenCenter
• Easily keep track of virtual machines as they proliferate across large datacenters.
• Apply Web 2.0 style tagging and searching capabilities to workloads.
• Track activity through performance monitoring, reporting and alerting dashboards.

Seriously Powerful

Citrix Essentials for XenServer Dell Edition adds more than 100 new virtualization enhancements including advances in high availability and disaster recovery. These capabilities include the industry’s most advanced high availability (HA), auto-restart and failover technologies that can be seamlessly upgraded to full fault tolerance for the most mission-critical applications.