Citrix® Essentials for Microsoft® Hyper-V, offers advanced server virtualization management capabilities for Hyper-V to help Windows Server 2008 customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile environments for Hyper-V virtual machines. The solution extends the enterprise management capabilities of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager in the areas of storage management, provisioning services, and lab automation to maximize the benefits of deploying Hyper-V virtual infrastructure.
Features:
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Seamless storage integration
Citrix Storagelink technology exposes the advanced data and storage management features in today’s storage systems directly to the XenServer server virtualization environment. Citrix Storagelink technology dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of storage management with server virtualization by making it easy to leverage all the power of existing storage systems from within both XenServer and Hyper-V virtualization environments.
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Dynamic workload management
Provides granular visibility to real-time system performance and intelligently places and rebalances virtual workloads across XenServer resource pools to ensure optimal utilization and performance.
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Stage management
Streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering applications on demand into production environments.
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Automated lab management
Enables self service set-up and tear down of non-production environments typically used in development, support and training organizations reducing server virtualization management complexity, time and cost.
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Dynamic provisioning services
Provides simple deployment of workloads to any combination of virtual machines or physical servers from a single golden image.
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High availability
For the automatic restart and intelligent placement of virtual machines in case of failure of guest or physical servers.
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Workflow orchestration
Enables customized automation of key management processes.
