Editors' Rating
Typical price:£ 660
Verdict
Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what's available on rival platforms... Read Full Review.
Pros
- Native support for DAS/NAS/SAN storage systems
- Offloading of common storage processing tasks
- Automated provisioning and resource balancing
- Live migration and other high availability options
- Bundled management console and P2V converter
Cons
- XenCenter console is complicated in places
- Advanced high availability and dynamic provisioning features are absent from the Standard Edition
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