Citrix Systems has announced an agreement
with HP to qualify and sell its XenServer Enterprise Edition
(formerly XenSource XenEnterprise) on industry-standard HP ProLiant
and BladeSystem servers.
Introduced in August 2007, Citrix XenServer
Enterprise Edition 4 includes support for live migration of running
virtual machines; scalable, a resilient virtual infrastructure
management framework integrated into every host; an open,
standards-based XenAPI that enables ISVs and OEMs to develop add-on
solutions for XenServer Enterprise Edition; and a 64-bit hypervisor
that supports both 32- and 64-bit enterprise workloads.
HP claims that its ProLiant servers provide
optimum operational efficiency and virtualization performance for
consolidation and energy efficiency. HP and Citrix’s expanded
relationship provides customers the ability to purchase an entire
virtualization solution, from server to software.”
“Virtualization has become a necessity for
our customers to achieve desired business outcomes,” said Scott
Farrand, vice president of Industry Standard Server Software at
HP.