Citrix Virtualizations Conference 09

September 3, 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine, the annual conference of the Citrix Virtualizations Conference was held, and I was fortunate enough to become a participant. At the very beginning, there was a presentation of Blade Solutions, an HP partner at Citrix. The program also includes the following questions:

1. Server virtualization based on Citrix XenServer;
2. Citrix XenServer Essentials virtual infrastructure management system;
3. Virtualization and Application Delivery with XenApp 5 FP2;
4. Solution for informatization of small offices based on Citrix Branch Repeater;
5. Deliver virtual desktops (VDI) using Citrix XenDesktop 3 technology;
6. Introducing the Hypervisor for Citrix XenClient Desktops

If from points 2 to 5 everything is, in principle, understandable, and if it is not clear, you can read on the official website of Citrix , as well as on the Citrix community site , then points 1 and 6 especially interested me. And I want to share with you exactly what. As everyone probably noticed, it is now becoming quite popular to manage the virtual infrastructure through a web interface. Citrix XenServer is currently deprived of this functionality. The server pool, as well as individual servers, are managed using the Citrix XenCenter application installed in Windows. In the next version, according to Citrix employees, this functionality should be implemented. That is, now the administrator, so to speak, can be untied from the OS version to manage their virtual servers, only a browser will be needed. Also, according to the same staff, in the next version of Citrix XenServer, support, beloved by me, FreeBSD OS should be added as a guest system. This means that somewhere in half a year there will be an opportunity to do a live migration of the FreeBSD OS installed as a virtual server. Further on item 6. At the conference, Citrix presented, so to speak, a prototype of the client hypervisor. What is this thing ... Actually Bare-Metal Xen hypervisor or level 1 hypervisor (installed on bare hardware), with the ability to quickly switch between virtual machines using hot keys. Accordingly, the question arises about the speed and quality of the work of this decision ...
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But as seen on the video, Windows works with all the effects and functionality. The public beta version of Citrix XenClient is expected in late October - early November 2009, and the release of the product in late March - early April 2010. This technology is likely to become the basis for Citrix XenDesktop's Virtual Desktop Delivery (VDI) server delivery technology in the future.