8 christian ferber xen_server_6_news
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XenServer 6.0 NewsChristian FerberSystems Engineer Datacenter & CloudServer Virtualization
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Citrix XenServer
• Free XenServer Impact
• 450,000+ downloads
• 75,000+ unique organizations
• > 50% of Fortune 500 run XenServer
• Proven with leading vendors technology
• Entrusted by demanding organizations to run the
most mission critical apps
• Optimized to run XenDesktop deployments
• Used by the largest clouds
• Validated by market thought leaders
Best virtualizationplatform
“XenServer 5.5 now meets 100% of our
enterprise requirements”
-Burton Group, 2009
“Look closely at Citrix as an alternative to
VMware. [Citrix] offers many of the same
features as VMware with more flexibility and a
lower price.”-Info-Tech Research Group, 2011
Magic Quadrant “Leader" –noted for features
and price/performance”
-Gartner, 2011
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Why Customers Virtualize with XenServer?
• 10 minutes to Xen• No single points of failure• Centrally manage hundreds of virtual servers
• Enterprise-class features such as live migration, disk snap shots, high availability, dynamic memory control
• Enables you to optimize resources with zero-downtime to users.
• Industry-leading server virtualization, free!• Extends your server consolidation savings into
capital equipment, space, power and cooling costs• Per server pricing for premium editions
Affordable3
Performance2
Ease of Use1
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XenServer in „Leaders“ Quadrant
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Many Organizations Leverage Multiple Hypervisors
1% 3%7%
31%58%
How many server virtualizationvendors are you using?
5 4 3 2 1
41%
32%
9%
9%
4% 5%
What pair of vendorsare you using?
VMware/Citrix
VMware/Microsoft
VMware/Oracle
Microsoft/Oracle
Oracle/Red Hat
Microsoft/Red Hat
Source: Info-Tech Research Group; N = 71
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XenServerBase Enhancements
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• Installation, upgrade and management of a XenServerenvironment has been drastically simplified• Integrated StorageLink
• Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
• Integrated Site Recovery
• vApps
• Rolling Pool Upgrade Wizard
• Simplified Installer
Simplicity & Ease of Use
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• Fully automated upgrades (after pre-checks)• Requires HTTP, NFS or FTP
share
• Semi-automated upgrades• CD or PXE
Rolling Pool Upgrade
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• 16 vCPU per VM
• 128Gb Memory per VM
• 1TB Physical RAM support
• XenCenter now parallelizes XenAPI operations
Performance & Scale Improvements
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• Updated Guest Support• Debian Squeeze 6.0 64-bit
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.0 (32 and 64-bit)
• SLES 10 SP4 (32 and 64-bit)
• New Guest Support• Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 (32 and 64-bit)
• Experimental Guest Support• CentOS 6.0 (32 and
64-bit)
• Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 (32 and 64-bit)
• Solaris 10
New guest support
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XenServer Networking
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• Successor of Linux bridging
• Seamless integration
• Enables network switching between XenServer hosts
• Enhances networking flexibility also for service providers
• Controller available as appliance
• Support for VM port ACLs, QoS, Port Mirroring, Monitoring using NetFlow,...
Distributed Virtual Switch
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XenServer Availability & Recovery
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Remote VM guest storage
Bare Metal Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
XenTool Stack
Device Drivers
Bare Metal Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
XenTool Stack
Device Drivers
Bare Metal Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
XenTool Stack
Device Drivers
Live Migration
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Remote VM Guest Storage
Bare Metal Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
XenTool Stack
Device Drivers
Bare Metal Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
XenTool Stack
Device Drivers
Bare Metal Hardware
Xen Hypervisor
XenTool Stack
Device DriversDo not
restart
Protected
ProtectedProtected
High Availability
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• Heartbeat disk can now be on NFS
• Previously supported block based disk types were Hardware HBA & iSCSI
NFS Support for HA Feature
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Disaster Recovery Architecture
XenServer
Pool A
Storage A Storage B
Data Replication
by Storage
XenServer
Pool B
VM
1
VM
2
VM
nVM
1
VM
2
VM
n
XenServer Disaster Recovery
in case of failure of Site A
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• Support for “vApps” or Virtual Appliances• OVF definition of Virtual Appliance
• vApp contains one or more Virtual Machines
• Enables grouping of VM which can be utilized by• XenCenter
• Integrated Site Recovery
• Appliance Import and Export
• HA
Virtual Appliance Introduction (vApp)
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• Policy based snapshotting and archiving for VMs
• Separate scheduling options for snapshot and archive
• Assisted Policy Configuration• Add multiple VMs to policy
• Search filter available
• VM can only belong to 1 policy
• XenCenter or CLI
VM Protection & Recovery
Platinum Advanced
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XenServerManagement
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• XenServer 6.0 supports SCVMM and SCOM• Management of XenServer VMs via
System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center Operations Manager pack for monitoring
• Support for various VM and host operations and monitoring
• Certain Host/Pool management operations still in XenCenter (e.g. HA, DR)
Support for SCVMM and SCOM
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SCVMM Screenshots
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StorageLink – Intelligent Storage Management
Fast cloning
Snapshots
Deduplication
Recovery
...
Data Communication
Management
Communication
XenServer(s)
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Workload Balancing
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• Ready-to-use WLB Virtual Appliance replaces Windows based WLB installer
• Up and running with WLB in minutes rather than hours
• Small footprint, Linux Virtual Appliance• ~150Mb
Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
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XenServerfor XenDesktop
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• >50% of XenDesktop deployments run on XenServer
• XenServer Enterprise included in XenDesktop
• XenServer reduces server and storage cost massively
XenServer – Best platform for XenDesktop
XenServer
XenDesktop
Windows 7
IntelliCacheTM
XenServer
1
Storage
Windows 7
n
50% lower central storage cost
by IntelliCacheTM
Best support for HDX 3D desktops
by GPU Pass-Thru
More desktops per server
by Dynamic Memory Control
and more …
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R/W Cache
at runtime
IntelliCacheTM in action
NFS Shared Storage
Intellicache
Read Cache
XenServer Host
Base Disk
Clones per VM
Pooled
Desktops
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Intellicache IOPS Reduction
792.75
0.79 10.04
887.57
1.85 1.79
1680.32
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
NFS Shared (No IntelliCache) - 110 Desktops Local SAS - 30 desktops Local SSD - 100 desktops
IOP
S -
NF
S O
pera
tio
ns
Max Read IOPS Max Write IOPS Max IOPS Combined
XD5/XS 5.6 FP1 Performance Comparisons Maximum Read/Write IOPS load on shared storage
Shared desktops provisioned MCS with and without IntelliCache
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• Enables high-end graphics in VDI deployments with HDX 3D Pro
• Optimal CAD application support with XenDesktop
• More powerful than RemoteFX, virtual GPUs, or other general purpose graphics solutions
GPU Pass-through Support
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Without GPU pass-through, each user requires their own Blade PC
Benefits of GPU Pass-through
With GPU pass-through, hardwarecosts are cut up to 75%
GPU cards
XenServer Host
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Enterprise
Platinum
FreeXenServer
XenServer
Premium
Editions
• Automated VM Protection and Recovery
• Distributed Virtual Switching
• Mixed Resource Pools by CPU Masking
• Dynamic Memory Control
• High Availability
• Performance Reporting and Alerting
Citrix XenServer 6.0 Family
• GPU Pass-Thru
• Monitoring Pack for SystemCenter Operations Manager
• Workload Balancing incl. Power Management
• StorageLinkTM Advanced Storage Management
• IntelliCacheTM for XenDesktop Storage Optimization
• Role-based Administration
• Live Memory Snapshots
• Provisioning Services for Virtual Servers
• Web Management Console with delegated Administration
• Site Recovery
• Provisioning Services for Physical Servers
Advanced
• Management Integration with SystemCenter Virtual Machine Manager
• SAN Boot Multipathing Support
• Active Directory Integration
• Storage Snapshots
• No socket restriction
• XenCenter Management incl. shared storage and XenMotionTM
included in
XenDesktopfor XenDesktop related
workloads
Includes also
Provisioning for
physical
desktops
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Enterprise
Platinum
Free
XenServer
XenServer
Premium
Editions
Citrix XenServer Product Family
Advancedincluded in
XenDesktopfor XenDesktop related workloads
1 License per
physical
XenServer
1 License per
XenDesktop
User
License Model
1
License Model
2
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