Citrix Xen Server Patrick Olschewski Product Manager polcomputerlinks

Citrix Xen. Server Patrick Olschewski Product Manager pol@computerlinks. de

Our Vision for Business A world where anyone can work from anywhere www. computerlinks. de 2 2

Businesses Run on Applications Users www. computerlinks. de Apps 3 3

Users and Apps are Moving Further Apart • • Globalization • Flex Working Branch Expansion • • Mobility E-Commerce www. computerlinks. de Consolidation Users Apps Security • Compliance • Continuity • Web Services 4 4

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 www. computerlinks. de 5 5

Dynamic Coupling of Users and Apps Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure Best Performance. Highest Security. Users www. computerlinks. de Lowest Total Cost. Apps 6 6

Application Delivery Infrastructure Online Virtual Collaboration Platform Deskt CPU/RDesktop op AM Virtualization Users V App Logi Dat Server Application Server U/I c a Virtualization V V V Application Networking Infrastructure Apps Workflow Automatisation www. computerlinks. de 7 7

Was macht Virtualisierung Win Xen Dell www. computerlinks. de HP Linux Xen FSC Xen Hypervisor IBM 8 8

Neue Möglichkeiten - Ein (V)Server wird zu einer Datei - 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 www. computerlinks. de 9 9

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 www. computerlinks. de 10 10

Why Do Customers Choose Xen. Server? • Ease of Use • Best price/performance • Efficient • OS independence • Strong Microsoft relationship www. computerlinks. de 11 11

The Opportunity is huge Source: IDC Worldwide Server Forecast – 2007 – 2011 [May, 2007] www. computerlinks. de 12 12

Citrix Xen. Server Family • Live Migration • Resource pools • 2. 142, 00 € per server • Multiple Servers • Xen. Center UI • 642, 00 € per server • Single server • Free download Enterprise Edition Standard Edition Express Edition * Prices for 2 CPU socket servers www. computerlinks. de 13 13

Xen. Source v 4 Product Packaging Express Edition Standard Edition Single Server Multiple Server Pool 1 GB – 4 GB 1 GB – 128 GB CPU Sockets 2 Unlimited Active Guests 4 Unlimited RAM per VM 4 GB 32 GB Resource Pools No No Shared Storage No No Live Relocation No No VLAN Configuration No No Resource Qo. S [CPU, disk, network] No No Admin Model Physical Memory www. computerlinks. de Enterprise Edition 14 14

Technischer Einblick www. computerlinks. de 15 15

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 » » Rapid rate of innovation Leverages other open source projects Xen-based virtualization delivers the highest performance for next generation silicon based virtualization www. computerlinks. de 16 16

Xen: Engine of Innovation • The Open standard • Always supports the latest hardware assisted virtualization • Work closely with OS vendors • Leverage Security community www. computerlinks. de 17 17

Strategic Technology Partners 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 P 2 V Conversion System Hardware Virtual Appliances Clustered Storage Connectivity Management www. computerlinks. de System Management Provisioning Virtual Lab Management Virtual Appliance Resources 18 18

Xen and Xen. Server Hyper-V www. computerlinks. de 19 19

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 50 k lines of code (0. 25 MB in size) Open Source Control Interface Storage Drivers Xen Control Interface Virtualized Hardware VT/AMD-V Hardware www. computerlinks. de 20 20

Architectural Comparison Emulation User Apps Linux Windows Para-virt Hardware-virt User Apps Linux Windows HALT SAFE HALT HYPERCALL VT/AMD-V Hardware www. computerlinks. de Hardware 21 21

Xen. Server v 4: What’s Different? An open platform for delivery of powerful valueadded solutions Dynamic Virtualization Services APIs GUEST Enhanced CLI Enhanced Xen. API, CLI GUEST Dynamic Virtualization Multi-server resource pooling, Xen. Motion live relocation Services Xen Hypervisor X 86 Server Pluggable Storage API Xen. Center Management Console www. computerlinks. de GUEST Xen Hypervisor X 86 Server X 86 22 22

Xen. Center™ Windows Console • Manage VMs from anywhere • “Ten Minutes to Xen” • Compatible with Windows Server Virtualization www. computerlinks. de 23 23

Management Architecture Comparison The Other Guys Traditional Management Architecture • Single Backend Management Server • Single Point of failure www. computerlinks. de Xen. Server Next Generation Management Architecture • Clustered Management Layer • No Single Point of failure 24 24

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 www. computerlinks. de 25 25

Resource Pools Resource Pool • Join multiple physical servers into one logical pool • Delivers. VM agility with Automatic Placement and Live Migration • Shared configurations • Shared Storage • Resiliency to system failures www. computerlinks. de 26 26

Xen. Motion: Live Relocation Remote VM Guest Storage www. computerlinks. de 27 27

Xen. Server & Presentation Server • Best way to Virtualize Presentation Server • Delivers data center flexibility and consolidation • Perfect for test & development environments www. computerlinks. de 28 28

Independent Validation • Xen. Motion • Seamlessly move or re-locate virtual machines without downtime • Resource. Pools • 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 • Xen. Center Computer Reseller News Product Review - 8/12/2007 • Easily manage your virtualization environment from a single, unified interface, including servers, storage and networking • Xen. API • Integrate with existing investments and infrastructure www. computerlinks. de 29 29

Xen. Server Roadmap and futures

Xen. Server Major 2008 Milestones Miami – XS 4. 1 Stability, Scalability, Ease of use, Vista 32 bit, RHEL 64 -bit, Net. App integration Miami beta Q 1 2008 www. computerlinks. de Orlando – XS 4. 2 Tokyo – XS 4. 3 HA enablement, Win 2 K 8, DR Enablement, Storage services, AD int, P 2 V Storage partner enable Kissimmee High Availability Option pack Q 2 Q 3 Q 4 31 31

Miami Key Feature Set • Scalability and Performance 2. RDP sound configuration 3. Configurable VNC • Increased number of 4. • 5. • simultaneously active VMs Enhanced NPT support resulting in better performance on AMD-V equipped systems. VLAN support in Standard Edition • Usability 6. • Xen. Server tools icon in system • tray of Windows guests Extensive Xen. Center usability and performance enhancements: 1. User-selectable automatic switching to RDP for Windows console access – Easily enable high performance console access www. computerlinks. de 7. 8. 9. keystrokes Cut-and-paste to-and-from Windows guests Undocked console menu for VM operations – Easy access to VM lifecycle management operations in undocked console windows Connection configuration (proxies and timeouts) – Configurable access to hosts behind firewalls Host system update management – Easily install host system patches Maintenance mode – Remove a host from active status in a resource pool while maintaining management control Pool-wide server status report collation ( 10. Warnings when VM performance is threatened 11. Improveddisplay when Xen. Server 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 32 32

Miami Key Feature Set continued • Storage • • • Initial shared fibre channel storage support (via CLI only) Enhanced support for Net. App filers, including snapshot and cloning Windows guest Hot disk remove i. SCSI storage improvements i. SCSI IQN scanning Enhanced CIFS and NFS Storage Repository configuration Storage repository repair Configuration and display of default Storage Repository Warnings when i. SCSI host IQNs are duplicated within a resource pool • Guest • • • 32 bit RHEL and Centos 5 install from CD RHEL 5 and Centos 5 x 64 guest support Windows Vista x 86 guest support • SDK • • Java bindings Simulator for emulating resource pools without requiring multiple physical hosts • Host System • • • Rolling pool upgrade from v 4 to v 4. 1 with no service outage High performance NIC driver updates (e 1000, BNX 2, TG 3) Improved hardware support www. computerlinks. de 33 33

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 www. computerlinks. de Xen Storage Services ISV Backu ISV p. Guest Backup Client ISV Backup Client Application VDS, SMI -S. (Exchg, SQL, SAP, ETC) SMAPI, XEN VSS HW VSS Provider Xen or Hyper-V Hypervisor 34 34

Next Steps 10 MINS • Download Xen. Server • 10 minutes to Xen • Download Xen. Desktop tech preview • Start testing Desktop Virtualization • Download Citrix Workflow Studio tech preview • Start to automate your IT infrastructure www. citrix. com www. computerlinks. de 35 35