Citrix XenServer

Patrick Olschewski
Product Manager
pol@computerlinks.de
 Our Vision for Business

A world where anyone can work from anywhere

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 Businesses Run on Applications

Users Apps

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 Users and Apps are Moving Further Apart

• Globalization • Consolidation
• Flex Working • Security
• Branch Expansion • Compliance
• Mobility • Continuity
• E-Commerce
Users Apps • Web Services

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 Traditional Application Deployment

Lock Down More Fastest Best and

& Standardize Best PCs Bandwidth Network Most Servers

Users Apps

• Apps Still Slow • “Managed Desktops” Costly

• Data Still Vulnerable • Poor User Experience

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 Dynamic Coupling of Users and Apps

Citrix
Application Delivery
Infrastructure
Best Performance. Highest Security.
Users Lowest Total Cost. Apps

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 Application Delivery Infrastructure

Online Virtual Collaboration Platform

CPU/RDesktop
Deskt App Logi Dat
AM op
Application
U/I c
Server
Server a
Virtualization Virtualization
Virtualization Virtualization

Users Apps
Application Networking Infrastructure

Workflow Automatisation

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 Was macht Virtualisierung

Win Win Linux

Xen Hypervisor
Xen Xen

Dell HP IBM
FSC

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 Neue Möglichkeiten

- Ein (V)Server wird zu einer Datei

- schnelle Bereitstellung neuer Systeme

- einfaches Backup
- schnelle Restore Möglichkeit
- verschieben auf andere Hardware
- erweiten der Serverfarm in Sekunden

- Ein (HW) Server wird zur Ressource

- Erweiterung von Speicher ohne Ausfallzeit

- hohe Auslastung bestehender Ressource
- Mehrere Server bieten Ausfallsicherheit

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 Virtualization Benefits for IT
Reduce Cost
• Lower server, SAN, network and infrastructure costs
• Reduce management overhead
• Lower power, facilities and deployment costs

Increase Server Utilization

» Increase average server utilization
» Gets new applications up and running faster in
the data center
» Move quickly from one virtual server machine to
another

Improve I.T. Agility

» Ensure Business Continuity
» Boost developer Productivity
» Reduce service deployment times
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 Why Do Customers Choose XenServer?

• Ease of Use
• Best price/performance
• Efficient
• OS independence
• Strong Microsoft relationship

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 The Opportunity is huge

Source: IDC Worldwide Server Forecast – 2007 – 2011 [May, 2007]

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 Citrix XenServer Family

• Live Migration
Enterprise
• Resource pools
Edition
• 2.142,00 € per server

• Multiple Servers
Standard
• XenCenter UI Edition
• 642,00 € per server Standard
Edition

• Single server Express

• Free Edition
download
* Prices for 2 CPU socket servers

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 XenSource v4 Product Packaging
Express Standard Enterprise
Edition Edition Edition

Admin Model Single Server Multiple Server Multiple Server Pool

Physical Memory 1GB – 4 GB 1GB – 128 GB 1GB – 128 GB
CPU Sockets 2 Unlimited Unlimited
Active Guests 4 Unlimited Unlimited
RAM per VM 4GB 32GB 32GB
Resource Pools No No
Shared Storage No No
Live Relocation No No
VLAN Configuration No No

Resource QoS
No No
[CPU, disk, network]

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 Technischer Einblick

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 The Power of Xen
Paravirtualization is the key to high
performance

Xen is designed to utilize the

virtualization capabilities of Intel® VT
and AMD-V enabled processors

Xen Benefits from open source

community innovation
» Rapid rate of innovation
» Leverages other open source projects

Xen-based virtualization delivers the highest performance

for next generation silicon based virtualization
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 Xen: Engine of Innovation

• The Open standard

• Always supports the latest

hardware assisted virtualization
• Work closely with OS vendors
• Leverage Security community

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 Technology Partners
Strategic

Application Acceleration Hardware Database SAN Hardware System Management

Application Appliances Grid Computing

Application Delivery High Availability/Disaster

Recovery Security

Application Migration System Software

Network Hardware Service Level Automation

Backup Virtualization Mgmt

P2V Conversion System Hardware

Clustered Storage Virtual Appliances

Provisioning Virtual Lab Management Virtual Appliance Resources

Connectivity Management

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 Xen and XenServer

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 Platform Architecture
• CPU and Memory access through Xen Engine
• Network and Storage I/O through Domain 0
• Standard Linux device drivers
• Down to the hardware
• Xen is a thin layer on top of the hardware
• Only 50k lines
of code Open
(0.25MB in size) Source
Storage
Control
Interface
Drivers

Xen Control
Interface
Interface Virtualized Hardware VT/AMD-V

Hardware

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 Architectural Comparison
Emulation Para-virt Hardware-virt
User User
Apps Apps User User
Apps Apps

Linux Windows
Linux Windows

HALT

HALT SAFE HALT

HALT
HYPERCALL

VT/AMD-V

Hardware Hardware

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 XenServer v4: What’s Different?

An open platform for delivery of powerful value-

added solutions
Dynamic Virtualization Services APIs
Dynamic Virtualization Services APIs
XenAPI,
Enhanced

GUEST GUEST GUEST GUEST

Enhanced

CLI
Enhanced
XenAPI,
Enhanced
Console
Management
XenCenter

CLI CLI
Enhanced

CLI
Enhanced
Console
Management
XenCenter

CLI CLI Pluggable

Dynamic Virtualization Dynamic Virtualization

Storage API

Multi-server
Dynamic resource pooling, XenMotion
Virtualization live relocation
Dynamic Virtualization

Storage API
Pluggable
Storage API
Pluggable

Services resource pooling, XenMotion live

Multi-server Services
relocation

Storage API
Pluggable
Services Services
Xen Hypervisor Xen Hypervisor

X86 Server X86 Server

X86
X86 Server X86 Server
X86 Server

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 XenCenter™ Windows Console

• Manage VMs
from anywhere

• “Ten Minutes to Xen”

• Compatible with
Windows Server
Virtualization

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 Management Architecture Comparison
The Other Guys XenServer

Traditional Management Next Generation

Architecture Management Architecture
• Single Backend • Clustered Management
Management Server Layer
• Single Point of failure • No Single Point of failure

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 Near “Bare Metal” Performance
• Insignificant overhead
• Linux: 1/2-4% overhead vs. native
• Windows: 2-6% overhead vs. native
• Large Workload Support
• Up to 8 Virtual CPUs per Guest
• Large Memory Support
• 128 GB Physical Memory
• 32 GB Per VM
• Double other virtualization
solutions

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 Resource Pools Resource Pool

• Join multiple physical servers into

one logical pool
• DeliversVM agility with Automatic
Placement and Live Migration
• Shared configurations
• Shared Storage
• Resiliency to system failures

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 XenMotion:Live Relocation

Remote VM
Guest Storage

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 XenServer & Presentation Server

• Best way to Virtualize

Presentation Server
• Delivers data center
flexibility and consolidation
• Perfect for test &
development environments

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 Independent Validation
• XenMotion
• Seamlessly move or re-locate virtual machines
without downtime
• ResourcePools
• Efficient configuration, allocation, and
authentication of your virtualization resources
• 64-bit architecture
“Easy-to-use, feature-rich offering is
• Scalability & support for enterprise application
quickly
workloads
catching up to its main rival“
• XenCenter
Computer Reseller News Product Review - 8/12/2007
• Easily manage your virtualization environment
from a single, unified interface, including
servers, storage and networking
• XenAPI
• Integrate with existing investments and
infrastructure

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XenServer Roadmap and
futures
 XenServer Major 2008 Milestones

Miami – XS 4.1 Tokyo – XS 4.3

Orlando – XS 4.2
Stability, Scalability, DR Enablement,
HA enablement, Win2K8,
Ease of use, Vista 32-bit, Storage services, AD
RHEL 64-bit, NetApp Storage partner enable int, P2V
integration

Miami Kissimmee
beta
High Availability
Option pack

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2008

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 Miami Key Feature Set

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 Miami Key Feature Set continued

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 Xen Storage Services (XSS)
• Common Storage
infrastructure ISV
Backu
Xen Storage ISV
pGuest
• Works with what you Services Backup
Client
Client

have today ISV

Backup
Application

• Seamless
Client
(Exchg,
VDS, SQL, SAP,

interoperability across SMI-S.

SMAPI,
ETC)
XEN

Xen and MSFT VSS HW

Provider
VSS
Provider

hypervisors
• Leverage, Enable, &
Xen or Hyper-V Hypervisor

certify storage partners

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 Next Steps
• Download XenServer
• 10 minutes to Xen
• Download XenDesktop tech
preview
• Start testing Desktop Virtualization
• Download Citrix Workflow
Studio tech preview
• Start to automate your IT infrastructure

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