2. Enterprise-Virtualisierung und Cloud-Computing
• Unlimitiertes zentrales Management via kostenfrei!
XenCenter
• Ressourcen-Pools Live-Migration Vergleichbare
• Shared FC, iSCSI, und NFS Storage Funktionalität
anderer
Virtualisierungs-
• Verfügbar via freiem Download von produkte kostet
www.citrix.com ab $5.000
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3. Citrix XenServer 5.6-Familie
Stage Management StorageLinkTM Site Recovery
Platinum Lab Management Lab Self-Service Portal
NEW
Edition
Provisioning Services (p+v)
Provisioning Services (virtual) Role-based Administration
Enterprise Workload Balancing Automated WLB + Power Management
XenServer Edition
Premium StorageLinkTM Heterogeneous Pools
Editions Workflow Studio Orchestration Live Memory Snapshots
NEW
High Availability Dynamic Memory Control
Advanced
Edition Performance Monitoring
Live-Migration (XenMotion)
64bit, Windows, Linux Workloads
XenCenter Management
XenServer Free
Shared Storage (iSCSI, FC, NFS)
No socket restriction
Active Directory-Integration
Storage Snapshots http://it-services.netlogix.de
4. Free
Breite Unterstützung für Gast-Betriebssysteme
• Windows
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit & 32-bit & R2
Microsoft
• Windows Server 2003 32-bit SP0, SP1, SP2, R2; 64-bit SP2
Virtualization
• Windows Small Business Server 2003 32-bit SP0, SP1, SP2, R2 Validation
• Windows XP 32-bit SP 2, SP3 Program
• Windows 2000 32-bit SP 4
• Windows Vista 32-bit SP 1
• Windows 7 32-bit / 64-bit
• Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 32-bit 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1-4.5, 4.7, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 , 5.3; 64-bit 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 32-bit 9 SP2, SP3, SP4; 10 SP1; 64-bit 10 SP1, SP2, SP3, SLES 11 (32/64)
• CentOS 32-bit 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 , 5.3; 64-bit 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 64-bit & 32-bit 5.0, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4
• Debian Lenny (5.0)
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5. XenServer 5.6 Platform Enhancements
Continued development of the free platform
• Enhanced performance and scale
• XenDesktop-driven enhancements
• XenConvert 2.2
• XenCenter improvements
• v6 licensing
• Common Criteria certification
• Other
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6. XenDesktop-driven Improvements
Focus on scalability, performance and improved TCO
Improve Storage Improve Start-up Time
• Block charge or buffer cache • Improved serialization of VM starts
• Final determination driven by performance
test results
• Removal of auto SR scans Improve I/O Performance
• Unsafe write caching • Reduce XAPI logging
• Enable use of local (cheap) storage
• iSCSI offload support
• Reference architecture will still focus on NFS
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7. XenCenter Improvements
• Usability enhancements
• Multi-select
• Clearer UI
• XenCenter –plugins
• XenCenter UI customisation
• Can add new tabs and menu items
• Menu items can go to web pages, or run executables
• http://community.citrix.com/xencenter/plugins
• Download / Advertising / Community site for XenCenter plugins.
• Dropped XenCenter support for XenServer 4.1
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9. Other new platform enhancements
in XenServer 5.6
• New kernel (2.6.27)
• Xen 3.4
• Multiple DVD drives and floppy drives
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10. Advanced
Citrix Lizenz-Server-Integration
• Gleicher Lizenz-Server wie bei anderen Citrix-Produkten
• Zentrale Überwachung
• Verfügbar als Virtual Appliance oder als Windows-Service
Hinweis: freier XenServer nutzt keinen Lizenz-Server
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125301
11. Advanced
Dynamic Memory Control (DMC)
• Over-Commitment von RAM möglich
• Anpassung RAM-Konfiguration (VM) während des Betriebs
• Mehr VMs pro Server möglich
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12. Enterprise
Rollenbasierte Administration
• Zuweisung und Kontrolle von Rechten innerhalb eines
Pools
• Integration von Active Directory-Benutzern und -Gruppen
• Audit Logging über Workload Reports
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13. Role-Based Access Control
Role Abilities
Pool Admin Can do anything
Pool Operator Can do anything except assign roles and access host console
VM Power Admin Can do anything to VMs
VM Admin Can do most things to VMs: can’t choose a home server, or make snapshots
VM Operator VM lifecycle operations and console
Read Only Can only look at the pool, not change anything
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14. Enterprise
Live Memory Snapshot und Rollback
• XenCenter-gesteuerte live VM Snapshots
• One-click Revert
• Unterstützung für
Verzweigungen von
Snapshots
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15. Enterprise
Dynamic Workload Balancing
• Starten von VMs auf dem
optimalen Server
• Automatisiertes VM Load
Balancing
• Ein-/Ausschalten von Servern
nach Bedarf
• Auslastungs-Reporting
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17. …and Efficient Power Consumption
• Automated guest migration
• Scheduled optimization changes: from
maximum performance to maximum
density
• Power down unused servers
• But still be anticipatory about your
workload needs
• Integration with main IHV out-
of-band management solutions
(HP ILO, DELL DRAC etc.) XenServer XenServer
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18. Enterprise
Heterogene Pools (CPU Masking)
• Gleichzeitige Nutzung unterschiedlicher
Prozessorgenerationen innerhalb eines Pools
• Basierend auf Intel Flex Migration / AMD Extended
Migration
• Ideal für nachträgliche Pool-Erweiterung
• CPU-Kombinationen sind in HCL Pool
hinterlegt
Intel Intel Intel
Beispiel: X55xx X55xx X56xx
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21. Enterprise
StorageLink – unterstützte Storage-Systeme
System / Vendor
DataCore
Dell EqualLogic
EMC CLARiiON
GreenBytes
HP Enterprise Virtual Array “EVA” (SMI-S)
HP Modular Smart Array “MSA”
HP P4000 Series “Lefthand SAN/iQ”
IBM N Series
NetApp
Nexenta Storage Adapter
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22. Platinum
StorageLink Site Recovery
Citrix
StorageLink™
Site Recovery
Snapshot-basiertes
Remote-Spiegelung Staging/Testing
• Remote-Spiegelung von
Storageplatz für Disaster Recovery
• Einfache Konfiguration der
Replikation
• Disaster Recovery Failover