XenServer 5: New features for the Enterprise
October 28th, 2008 | 
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XenServer 5 is ready for the Enterprise. That’s been one of the flavors of the partner “kool aid” flowing here at Citrix Summit 2008 this week. Customer adoption will gauge this statement over the next year, but from a feature stand point Citrix’s latest version of XenServer now has the “bells and whistles” necessary to compete for market share in the number one strategic technology for 2009 (according to Gartner), virtualization. Citrix is not just promising future releases and roadmaps either (although there is some of that happening here too), but partners are seeing demos and participating in hands on labs for product capabilities already available.
I was told over 100 new features and enhancements have been added to XenServer 5.0. I can’t say that I have experienced all 100+ of them this week personally, but I’ve seen enough to know the changes are obvious and impressive.
Click through this SlideShare.net presentation for new feature technical details and images provided by Barry Flanagan on his Citrix Community blog.
Finally the following screen shot from the XenServer Product Editions page shows some of the latest major features by version. Notice that the free Express Edition, which was previously limited to running a maximum of 4 guests and only allowing only 4GB RAM for the host, has changed to unlimited guests and 128GB RAM.
Here are more links about the new features in XenServer 5.0:
What’s New in XenServer 5.0 – now ready for the enterprise
What’s New in XenServer 5
Blogs
- What’s new in XenServer 5
- Hello XenMotion!
- XenCenter 5 in Pictures
- XenServer 5 High Availability in Pictures
- New Features of XenServer 5 in Depth
- Virtual Storage Management with Citrix XenServer 5
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