Citrix

Summary One of the most common yet tricky performance issues to diagnose in virtualization environments is CPU contention—a condition where a VM’s virtual CPUs (vCPUs) are ready to execute tasks but must wait for access to physical CPU resources. We’re excited to announce that XenServer is introducing new CPU runnable metrics, giving you unprecedented visibility into CPU … [Read more...] about Gain Deeper Performance Insights with “CPU Runnable” Metrics

One of the most common questions that pops up as part of planning a migration from VMware vSphere to XenServer is if the VMs should be migrated or rebuilt on the new platform . For the cases where the answer is migration, there is a free tool available as part of the XenServer offering. Conversion Manager is an appliance based tool that can do batch migration of multiple … [Read more...] about Power Up Your VMware to XenServer Migration with Conversion Manager 8.5.0

Here’s something you might not know, XenServer 8 is actually version XenServer 8.4 under the hood, which has been the case ever since its release last year. We recognise that labelling the release as XenServer 8 may have led to a degree of confusion, with some customers even under the impression that our prior Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 release was in some way newer than … [Read more...] about XenServer 8 is really XenServer 8.4