In recent months, hundreds of people have asked me the question: "When is Tampa Version" [?
I am pleased to announce that earlier today, "Tampa" officially reached GA as XenServer 6.1.
in engineering, it is officially considered a "cloud centric" press. while on the surface that seems to indicate a lack of features for virtualization of traditional server and desktop, but the reality is quite different.
When you consider that a racing cloud in a center data, and cloud workloads generally results in some very high densities VM, all with a requirement for a high degree of isolation of the workload, "cloud centric" is actually translated a set very strict performance requirements. to illustrate this point, we will consider three main features, live storage migration, network security and VM conversion.
When you look at some of the most successful clouds, you will quickly see that the concept of resource pools are a bit limiting. Whatever the size of the pool, if your cloud is successful, eventually you will have more clients than can fit in your cluster or pool.
During the design phase for the XenMotion storage, we recognized that the result is a storage migration solution directly shared anything that works as well in all types of storage and are not limited to an arbitrary concept of resource pool. Although designed for the cloud, it fully supports enterprise storage management requirements, and even supports live VM migration between local storage for cases where shared storage has not been implemented.
This same philosophy was used to network security and performance improvements that include everything 802.3ad LACP, 4 NIC connections and IPv6 invited carrier all the way down to switch to lock port MAC and prevent IP spoofing. We even went as far as looking at the amount of time is takes to create a large number of VLANs and improved by several orders of magnitude.
Finally, we took a look at one of the most interesting trends today, and is cost control implementation vSphere. Despite the various changes made to VMware prices, the reality is that VMware has drawn attention to the cost of their virtual infrastructure and companies are looking for ways to contain the cost of vSphere lever. It comes down to take advantage of vSphere to its strengths and when vSphere is not really necessary, looking for another platform. Since this alternative is often XenServer platform we created on XenServer Conversion Manager to perfectly convert batch vSphere VM XenServer
For more information on XenServer 6.1 I invite you to :.
- Download and install XenServer 6.1. Some features require a premium license and a trial license can be obtained free.
- Contact your advisor local Citrix solution and ask for details on how XenServer raised virtualization bar with XenServer 6.1
- Assist the Master Class webinar XenServer 6.1
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