As a CTP I have access to a lot of NDA information regarding product timelines and roadmaps. XenServer 6.0 is now in a public beta and next several versions are already drawn up on the board. Those are independent but kind of dependent on the open source Xen project. Since Xen is open source they can say that a Xen host will support 512 giga quad of RAM (for you Star Trek fans) and 65535 processors and a VM will support 1TB of RAM and 16384 processors but they don't have to test, validate and support those numbers. The Citrix XenServer product (both free and paid) will always be behind the open source project. Buying several servers from several vendors with 1TB RAM and a huge number of sockets/processors/cores for testing and validation isn't cheap.
I can state this with a 100% guarantee, if you have a concern about any aspect of XenServer, let me know. I have access to just about anyone on the XenServer and Xen teams. They like me because I include XenServer in my books and articles. J Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional <http://www.carlwebster.com/> http://www.CarlWebster.com (check out the changes coming to my website) From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes I realize my statement was off the cuff and normally that is not like me, but I wanted to get just the reaction that I did. I've been hearing tales for serveral months that Citrix's recent alignment with Microsoft (over the last 6-10 months) is directly related to their efforts to phase out XenServer as a HyperVisor and continue advancement of HyperV. The argument has been that Microsoft has a better HyperVisor and Citrix has much better management tools. It's hard to argue that from a capability standpoint, neither Microsoft or Citrix could really compete with VMWare. Their market play has traditionally been that of a value proposition. Given VMWare's dominance in the market, it wouldn't be surprising if MS and Citrix teamed up. Citrix has a much better product in XenDesktop compared to View and Citrix has traditionally been an app presentation solution provider. I would expect them to focus in that arena while continuing to leverage their management tools with MS HyperV for server virtualization. I'm not claiming to have any insider information and I fully appreciate your position as a CTP. I would love to hear the other side of the story because to be quite honest, I haven't heard any rebuttals to the "rumors" above in our small IT circle up north. I honestly have nothing against Citrix. We have a 200+ Server XenApp 5 farm where I'm employed. - Sean On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: "XenServer will be dead soon" Dude that is a boatload of crap! Do you realize that the vast majority of public cloud providers run on either the free or paid for XenServer or the free Xen hypervisor? One Canadian cloud provider has over 12,000 XenServer hosts. Now that Citrix has bought cloud.com <http://cloud.com/> , the Xen open source project and the Citrix XenServer (free and paid) product are not going away. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
