[THIN] Re: Vmware vs Citrix....

  • From: "Harry Singh" <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:38:36 -0400

Thanks Jim.

So Xenserver is a different product than CPS ? And Xenserver is the direct
VMware/Hyper-V competitor ?

I believe the new name is XenApp Server and it's up to revision 5.0, correct
?

I'm trying to catch up, forgive me.



On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Forgot a link. Citrix put up a separate site for Xenserver at
> http://www.xenserver5.com/
> which contains additional information just on Xenserver.
> Jim Kenzig
> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <
> jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On the Citrix front you will want to take a look at Xenserver (
>> http://www.citrix.com/xenserver ) and consider that they include
>> Provisioning with it that gives you a faster ability to deploy servers in my
>> opion then VMWare.  Vmware has been doing this a whole lot longer though and
>> they have probably the most robust management tools out there.  As time goes
>> by though that game is changing.
>>
>> Jim Kenzig
>> Blog: http://www.techblink.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Harry Singh <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> All -
>>>
>>> Let me preface this by saying, I run a relatively small shop with a
>>> single CPS 4.0 farm and single WI/CSG deployment.
>>>
>>> Now, Management wants to get involved with server virtualization. They
>>> are heading towards the direction of VMware but i do know that Citrix is in
>>> the virtualization space as well, but i don't know to what capacity. I,
>>> personally, have always thought that VMware would be the route to take to
>>> get server's and client's virtualized -- does citrix have something to
>>> compete with vmware ESX/Workstation ?
>>>
>>> in other words, what exactly is citrix doing with regards to
>>> virtualization  ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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