Do you ever worry about impacting your Citrix users when undertaking operations on your hypervisor? Perhaps you are concerned about shutting down a VM or host that has important user sessions running? Having to jump between multiple consoles to be sure you are doing the right thing can be time consuming and error prone reducing your confidence that you are safe to do what … [Read more...] about Enhance XenServer management with Citrix workload awareness
Product Updates
Simplifying PVS Migration from VMware to XenServer
We continue to hear from many customers that they are interested in moving their Citrix workloads to XenServer from VMware due to recent price increases. XenServer 8 now makes it even easier for you to migrate your Citrix workloads from VMware to XenServer, with the new PVS teleportation capabilities. This simplifies migrating your PVS master images to XenServer, … [Read more...] about Simplifying PVS Migration from VMware to XenServer
Expanding XenServer Automation capabilities with Terraform support
We are excited to announce that we now have a supported Terraform provider for XenServer. The Terraform provider for XenServer is available here: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/xenserver/xenserver/latest Here is the link for the GitHub repository: https://github.com/xenserver/terraform-provider-xenserver The XenServer Management API (XAPI) - interface for … [Read more...] about Expanding XenServer Automation capabilities with Terraform support
What monitoring capabilities would you like in XenServer?
Customers vary widely in how they choose to monitor their IT environments, two of the most common approaches we encounter are based on SNMP and Nagios. With the release of XenServer 8, we added 2 new monitoring capabilities with the ability to monitor XenServer with both SNMP and Nagios. We’d love feedback from you on what new monitoring capabilities you would like to see … [Read more...] about What monitoring capabilities would you like in XenServer?
XenServer 8 is live!
Bring on the fireworks, turn on the grill and get the drinks out! With the latest updates XenServer 8 has now moved out from Public Preview to full Production Support! Before I dive into the goodies contained in this release, there is a very important change with XenServer 8 that I want to highlight. XenServer 8 does not accept any Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop or Citrix … [Read more...] about XenServer 8 is live!