And to confuse things even more Xenserver uses Provisioning Server Technology to provison the Virtual servers. Jim Kenzig Blog: http://www.techblink.com 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. > > > > XenServer=Para-virtualized Hypervisor > > XenApp=Previously know as CPS and Application Virtualization (think > softgrid like) > > XenDesktop=Hosted/Virtualized Desktops > > Provisioning Server=PXE boot VM and hard-machines. Can share a common > image so 1 OS image can boot 100s of PCs. > > > > *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.... > > > > 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 ? > > > > > > > > >