Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer is becoming an industry standard server virtualisation hypervisor, offering excellent reliability and stability along with a feature set to suite even the most demanding businesses. Piandi offer a range of consultancy services and solutions utilising Citrix XenServer.

There are many benefits to server virtualisation:

• Reduces costs by consolidating servers and reducing power, cooling, and space requirements.
• By allowing the provisioning of new servers and IT services within minutes, IT flexibility and productivity is dramatically increased.
• Application requirements and performance levels can be managed and met simply.
• Downtime is minimised by reducing the impact of failures and protecting against disasters

Citrix XenServer is available in four different versions including a free version. All versions are built upon the same robust core and migrating between versions is simply a matter of changing the license.

The free version provides a very stable and easy to use, enterprise ready hypervisor and includes features such as VM migration and snapshots that would be chargeable in other hypervisors.

The other versions are Advanced, Enterprise, and Platinum and all offer an increasing feature set such as Dynamic Memory Control and Workload Balancing. The pricing structure for all versions is very simple and is based on a cost per host. The total cost of licenses for a XenServer project compared to a VMware project usually works out around 75% cheaper.

As a Citrix Silver Partner, Piandi are perfectly placed to help you with your server virtualisation project, from conception to completion.