Citrix XenServer
Patrick Olschewski
Product Manager
[email protected]
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
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Globalization
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Flex Working
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Branch Expansion
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Mobility
E-Commerce
Consolidation
Users
Apps
Security
• Compliance
• Continuity
• Web Services
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Traditional Application Deployment
Lock Down
& Standardize
Best PCs
More
Bandwidth
Fastest
Network
Best and
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
Deskt
CPU/RDesktop
op
AM
Virtualization
Users
V
App
Logi
Dat
Server
Application
Server
U/I
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Virtualization
Virtualization Virtualization
V
V
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Application Networking Infrastructure
Apps
Workflow Automatisation
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Was macht Virtualisierung
Win
Win
Linux
Xen Hypervisor
Xen
Dell
HP
Xen
IBM
FSC
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Neue Möglichkeiten
- Ein (V)Server wird zu einer Datei
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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
• Resource pools
• 2.142,00 € per server
• Multiple Servers
• XenCenter UI
• 642,00 € per server
• Single server
• Free download
Enterprise
Edition
Standard
Edition
Standard
Edition
Express
Edition
* Prices for 2 CPU socket servers
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XenSource v4 Product Packaging
Express
Edition
Standard
Edition
Single Server
Multiple Server
Multiple Server Pool
1GB – 4 GB
1GB – 128 GB
1GB – 128 GB
CPU Sockets
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Unlimited
Unlimited
Active Guests
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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
[CPU, disk, network]
No
No
Admin Model
Physical Memory
Enterprise
Edition
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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
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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
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The Open standard
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Always supports the latest
hardware assisted virtualization
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Work closely with OS vendors
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Leverage Security community
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Technology Partners
Strategic
Application Acceleration Hardware
Database
Application Appliances
Grid Computing
Application Delivery
High Availability/Disaster
Recovery
SAN Hardware
Security
Application Migration
System Software
Network Hardware
Service Level Automation
Backup
Virtualization Mgmt
P2V Conversion
System Hardware
Virtual Appliances
Clustered Storage
Connectivity Management
System Management
Provisioning
Virtual Lab Management
Virtual Appliance Resources
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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
(0.25MB in size)
Open
Source
Control
Interface
Storage
Drivers
Xen Control
Interface
Virtualized Hardware
VT/AMD-V
Hardware
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Architectural Comparison
Emulation
User
Apps
User
Apps
Linux
Windows
Para-virt Hardware-virt
User
Apps
User
Apps
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 valueadded solutions
Dynamic Virtualization Services APIs
GUEST
Enhanced
CLI
Enhanced
Enhanced
XenAPI,
CLI CLI
GUEST
GUEST
Dynamic Virtualization
Dynamic Virtualization
Multi-server resource pooling, XenMotion live relocation
Services
Services
Xen Hypervisor
X86 Server
Pluggable
Storage API
Pluggable
Storage API
XenCenter
Management
Console
GUEST
Xen Hypervisor
X86 Server
Server
X86
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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
Traditional Management
Architecture
• Single Backend
Management Server
• Single Point of failure
XenServer
Next Generation
Management Architecture
• Clustered Management
Layer
• 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
workloads
quickly
catching up to its main rival“
• Scalability & support for enterprise application
• 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
Stability, Scalability,
Ease of use, Vista 32bit, RHEL 64-bit, NetApp
integration
Miami
beta
Q1
2008
Orlando – XS 4.2
Tokyo – XS 4.3
HA enablement, Win2K8,
DR Enablement,
Storage services, AD
int, P2V
Storage partner enable
Kissimmee
High Availability
Option pack
Q2
Q3
Q4
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Miami Key Feature Set
• Scalability and
Performance
• Increased number of
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simultaneously active VMs
Enhanced NPT support resulting
in better performance on AMD-V
equipped systems.
VLAN support in Standard
Edition
• Usability
• XenServer tools icon in system
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tray of Windows guests
Extensive XenCenter usability
and performance
enhancements:
1. User-selectable automatic
switching to RDP for
Windows console access –
Easily enable high
performance console
access
2. RDP sound configuration
3. Configurable VNC
11.Improveddisplay when
keystrokes
4. Cut-and-paste to-and-from
Windows guests
5. Undocked console menu
for VM operations – Easy
access to VM lifecycle
management operations in
undocked console windows
6. Connection configuration
(proxies and timeouts) –
Configurable access to
hosts behind firewalls
7. Host system update
management – Easily
install host system patches
8. Maintenance mode –
Remove a host from active
status in a resource pool
while maintaining
management control
9. Pool-wide server status
report collation (
10.Warnings when VM
performance is threatened
XenServer Tools are not
installed
12.Improved drawing
performance and quality
13.Improved rendering of
guest consoles for visuallyimpaired users
14. Even easier host and VM
configuration
• Reliability and
Manageability
• Host NIC bonding for fail-over
• Centralized host system logging
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Miami Key Feature Set continued
• Storage
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Initial shared fibre channel storage
support (via CLI only)
Enhanced support for NetApp filers,
including snapshot and cloning
Windows guest Hot disk remove
iSCSI storage improvements
iSCSI IQN scanning
Enhanced CIFS and NFS Storage
Repository configuration
Storage repository repair
Configuration and display of default
Storage Repository
Warnings when iSCSI host IQNs
are duplicated within a resource
pool
• Guest
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32bit RHEL and Centos 5 install
from CD
RHEL5 and Centos 5 x64 guest
support
Windows Vista x86 guest support
• SDK
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Java bindings
Simulator for emulating resource
pools without requiring multiple
physical hosts
• Host System
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Rolling pool upgrade from v4 to
v4.1 with no service outage
High performance NIC driver
updates (e1000, BNX2, TG3)
Improved hardware support
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Xen Storage Services (XSS)
• Common Storage
infrastructure
• Works with what you
have today
• Seamless
interoperability across
Xen and MSFT
hypervisors
• Leverage, Enable, &
certify storage partners
Xen Storage
Services
ISV
Backu
Guest
pISV
Backup
Client
Client
ISV
Backup
Client
Application
VDS,
SMI-S.
(Exchg,
SQL, SAP,
ETC)
SMAPI,
XEN
VSS HW
VSS
Provider
Provider
Xen or Hyper-V Hypervisor
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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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