[THIN] Re: Vmware vs Citrix....
- From: "Harry Singh" <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:12:06 -0400
It's all coming together now.
Anybody have experience with VMware and Xenserver and wish to comment on
pros and cons of both ?
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> XenServer is much like Hyper-V. In fact XenSource worked with Microsoft
> to help develop portions of Hyper-V. Interesting enough, they also share
> the same architecture.
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> XenServer=Para-virtualized Hypervisor
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> XenApp=Previously know as CPS and Application Virtualization (think
> softgrid like)
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> XenDesktop=Hosted/Virtualized Desktops
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> Provisioning Server=PXE boot VM and hard-machines. Can share a common
> image so 1 OS image can boot 100s of PCs.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Harry Singh
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:39 AM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Vmware vs Citrix....
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> Thanks Jim.
>
> So Xenserver is a different product than CPS ? And Xenserver is the direct
> VMware/Hyper-V competitor ?
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> I believe the new name is XenApp Server and it's up to revision 5.0,
> correct ?
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> I'm trying to catch up, forgive me.
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> 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
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> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms <
> jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Harry Singh <hboogz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> All -
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> Let me preface this by saying, I run a relatively small shop with a single
> CPS 4.0 farm and single WI/CSG deployment.
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> 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 ?
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> in other words, what exactly is citrix doing with regards to
> virtualization ?
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