Citrix XenServer is a member of the Citrix Delivery Center product family. It is used to virtualize servers and deliver dynamic data centers. Citrix XenServer deliveres a single management console from where adminstrators can provision, manage and deploy virtual machines along with their associated storage and network resources.
The Xen hypervisor - a thin software layer - runs directly on the hardware and provides an abstraction layer that allows each physical server to run one or more virtual servers. This allows XenServer to be provisioned on a bare-metal machine, without the overhead of a native operating system.
XenServer is based on the Open Source Xen hypervisor - technology acquired by Citrix as part of its XenSource acquisition.
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The virtualized "desktop 2.0" is about to kill once and for all the idea that a PC needs to be a physical device, Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has predicted.
At the end of a long speech at the iForum event in Edinburgh that ranged over a number of current products, Templeton made the recently-launched XenDesktop its centerpiece, describing the new desktop virtualization software as "the most anticipated product in Citrix's history."
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