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Virtualization optimizes existing resources to support larger enrollments.

View a list of the core features in Citrix XenServer.

A value leader in the virtualization space, XenServer is an open source platform for cloud, server and desktop virtualization infrastructures.

Get answers to frequently asked questions about system requirements and capabilities of XenServer.

Get answers to frequently asked questions about licensing for XenServer.

Citrix XenServer End User Licensing Agreement

This guide is designed to help you quickly install XenServer, the Citrix XenCenter management console and then start virtualizing workloads immediately. Also, it takes you through the steps necessary to install and license the XenServer Free Edition.

View the recommended configuration limits that are fully supported by Citrix when selecting and configuring your virtual and physical environment for XenServer.

By providing ready-to-run software in virtual machine format, Evaluation Virtual Appliances have a number of advantages over typical software deployments. Time spent in setting up proof of concept or pilot deployments is drastically reduced, and new products can be experienced firsthand without complicated setup or configuration.

This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing and running the Citrix License Server Appliance for Citrix XenServer.

This guide is designed to help you quickly set-up High Availability in your XenServer environment.

Set-up Dynamic Memory Control in your XenServer environment.

This guide is designed to help you quickly set-up VM Protection and Recovery in your XenServer environment.

This paper explores the difference in performance between an Intel® Xeon® E5405 and the Nehalem Xeon E5570 processors in a Citrix XenServer 5.0 virtual host server environment based on simulated a Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 transaction processing.

This paper explores 32-bit Citrix XenApp server consolidation rates when virtualized with Citrix XenServer 5.5 on the latest Intel Xeon x5570 (Nehalem) servers as compared to native Intel Xeon x7350 servers. The advantages of Intel’s Hyperthreading technology are also demonstrated, producing server consolidation rates of up to 12:1 for XenApp workloads.

Citrix Cloud Solution for On-Boarding enables seamless migration of applications and workloads into cloud infrastructures, leveraging a robust virtual platform, virtual machine migration, open virtualization format (OVF) and other innovative cloud technologies. It dramatically reduces the complexity of migration and the need to re-architect the application and network stack.

Citrix Cloud Solution for On-Demand Demos enables companies to leverage cloud computing environments to dynamically create customer trial environments to demonstrate how a product functions. It streamlines the creation and maintenance of a demo environment bringing on-demand availability to a broad array of software vendors.

Citrix Cloud Solution for Disaster Recovery (DR) helps to prevent unexpected interruptions to applications and data, which can result in significant business loss. By leveraging virtualization, storage, data protection and replication, and orchestration services to support cloud-based delivery of DR services. It provides a compelling alternative to dedicated 'hot-site' standby facilities.

Citrix Cloud Solution for Development and Test incorporates virtualization and on-demand application provisioning to help organizations cut both the time and budget required to set-up and allocate new infrastructure for test and development workloads in the cloud.

Creating training and demo environments for real-world applications is a complex process often requiring time consuming scripts and manual processes to ensure deployment consistency.

Large government enterprises can use desktop virtualization technology to create the ideal desktop delivery strategy. Working together, Citrix and Microsoft provide government with a uniquely integrated, end-to-end suite of flexible desktop virtualization technologies.

Citrix is leading the shift to cloud computing in the same manner with platform components that are delivering cloud orchestration and cloud management for enterprise and service provider customers worldwide.

Whitepaper detailing cost effective storage migration and management strategies for enterprise and cloud datacenters using Storage XenMotion in Citrix XenServer

This paper explores the challenges of maintaining business as usual during disasters and disruptions in order to distill the requirements of an ideal solution for disaster recovery and business and workforce continuity. It shows how virtualization capabilities provided by XenApp, XenDesktop and XenServer can be used to fulfill the crucial objectives of ensuring the availability and secure accessibility of essential information resources.

A guide to ensuring business continuity through the power of virtualization.

XenApp and XenDesktop customers can achieve increased consolidation, easier management, improved application availability and excellent performance by virtualizing with XenServer.

Industry-leading technologies bring educational resources to the student and help small IT teams manage large, complex deployments.

Providing always-on access to desktops, applications and other courseware for students and faculty anywhere on-campus or off-campus.

Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud technologies can help state and local governments achieve the benefits of top priority technologies.

Address the challenge of fast, secure and flexible delivery of case management, eligibility and health care services applications with sensitive information to remote and mobile workers, anytime, anywhere, on any device.

The installation process, server management, workload performance, desktop and application delivery and cost of XenServer make it the clear choice in server virtualization solutions.

This technical white paper provides a simple guide on how to build a virtualization architecture to address IT requirements for productivity and performance, collaboration and support, security and cost efficiency.

Citrix virtualization solutions can help organizations make the move to the next stage of virtualization where IT resources are efficiently shared across the entire company, more management tasks are automated, and delivery of services improves through speedier deployments and self-service capabilities.

Lab validation shows how enabling XenServer IntelliCache for XenDesktop deployments greatly reduces IO traffic which decreases your shared storage requirements.