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Lab Validation
Report
Citrix XenServer
Complete, Cost--effective Data Center and Server Virtualization
By Vinny Choinski with Brian Garrett
September 2010 © 2010, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Lab Validation: Citrix XenServer 5.6 2
Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Background ............................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introducing Citrix XenServer ..................................................................................................................................... 4
ESG Lab Validation ........................................................................................................................................ 5 The ESG Lab Test Bed ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Download and Activate ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Consolidate and Convert .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Operate and Manage .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Availability and Uptime .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Cost Effectiveness ................................................................................................................................................... 16
ESG Lab Validation Highlights ..................................................................................................................... 17
Issues to Consider ....................................................................................................................................... 17
The Bigger Truth ......................................................................................................................................... 18
Appendix ..................................................................................................................................................... 19
ESG Lab Reports
The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about emerging technologies and products in the storage, data management and information security industries. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third--party perspective is based on our own hands--on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments. This ESG Lab report was sponsored by Citrix.
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