xen and the future of data center virtualization

Xen and the Future of Data Center

Virtualization

Simon Crosby, CTO Virtualization

& Management Division,

Citrix Systems

Users Apps

The Utility Challenge – Users and Applications

Users Apps

XenServerXenDesktop

XenApp(formerly

Presentation

Server)

The Citrix Delivery Portfolio – Xen Optimized

Powerful Community Focused on Xen

Open, Compatible Xen Virtualization offerings

Rich Portfolio ofAdd-on Products

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Getting to Xen Ubiquity – Three Key Steps

Ubiquitous, Compatible, Scalable 64 bit Xen Hypervisor

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Citrix, Intel, IBM, HP, AMD, Fujitsu,

Unisys, SGI, Sun, VA Systems, Red Hat,

Novell, DoD, NSA & others

Open Compatible Virtual Infrastructure

Products

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Virtual

infrastructure:

Ubiquity: Getting Xen into

Hardware

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Application

Workload

Physical ServersVirtual Servers

Virtual Infrastructure

Expanding Beyond Virtual

Eg: Citrix XenServer Platinum supports Native, Xen, VMware and

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Rich Portfolio of Ecosystem Add-on Products

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Example: Citrix XenDesktop

XenServer

Dynamic Infrastructure

Services

Provisioning

Server Dynamic,

Secure,

Fast,

Virtual

Desktops

Dynamic Delivery & Management for

Virtual Desktops

XenDesktop EdgeSight

+ GotoAssist

+NetScaler

+WANScaler

+Access Gateway

Ecosystem Solutions

• VMO Distributed Resource

Scheduling for XenServer v4

• Powerful Lab Automation

Solution

• Multi-hypervisor VM

performance management &

monitoring

The Industry’s First Fault Tolerant

VMs• XenSource &

Marathon

– First FT solution for virtual environments

– Best new technology VMWorld 2007

• Protects business critical virtual workloads

• Removes barriers of entry around cost & complexity

x86-Based Serverx86-Based Server

XenServer

VM

VM

VM

XenServer

VM

VM

VM

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