Xenserver

Citrix
Sunny.Wang@citrix.com


CitrixXenServer
XenServer

XenServer
XenServer

(Citrix Systems)

1989

NASDAQ :

CTXS

2011 :

22

6,500+ 35

10,000+ 100

>23

Citrix

-XenDesktop

-XenApp
-XenServer
Web-NetScaler

(Virtual Computing)
User

Data Center

50,000 225,000 50% 500

2007-12-3
60

XenServer
90%

Amazon EC2, Rackspace ,Softlayer,Carpathia

NaviSite, NTT




Microsoft
SAP
Best virtualization
platform

Best virtualization
for Linux

Microsoft
Virtualization
Validation
Program

Citrix XenServer

XenServer
300,000+
225,000+ license

XenDesktop

Best virtualization
platform

XenServer 5.5 now meets 100% of our

enterprise requirements
- Burton Group, 2009

Citrix is a proven choicelarge

enterprises are addressed by [only]
Citrix and VMware.
- Gartner, 2009

Magic Quadrant "Visionary" noted for

features and price/performance
- Gartner, 2010

XenServer


- 10 minutes to Xen

XenApp, XenDesktop and NetScaler VPX

x86
Full-virtualization

Para-virtualization

Hardware Assisted

XenServer vs Xenserver
VMware
Console
OS

Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtual
MachineVirtual
Machine Virtual
Machine
Emulation

Hypervisor

Domain 0
Parent Partition

Control
Stack
Storage
Repositories

Linux
VM

Driver Driver

Citrix

Windows
VM

Windows
VM

VMDK / VMFS

Hypervisor
Driver

Driver

Driver

Driver

(Linux/Windows/Solaris)

XenServer
A
E

Xen Tool
Stack

D
B

A
B
C
D
E

Citrix XenServer

XenCenter

XenServer 6.0

64-bit Xen Hypervisor

Active Directory

(P2V, V2V and OVF)

XenCenter

Management Integration with Systems Center VMM

Automated VM Protection and Recovery

Distributed Virtual Switching

Dynamic Memory Control

High Availability

Performance Reporting and Alerting

Mixed Resource Pools with CPU Masking

Dynamic Workload Balancing and Power Management

IntelliCache for XenDesktop Storage Optimization

Live Memory Snapshot and Revert

Provisioning Services for Virtual Servers

Role-Based Administration and Audit Trail

StorageLink Advanced Storage Management

Monitoring Pack for Systems Center Ops Manager

WebWeb Management Console with Delegated Admin

Provisioning Services for Physical Servers

Site Recovery

XenServer 6.0
XenServer 6.0 runs on the Xen 4.1 Hypervisor
GPT Support
Switch from DOS MBR partitioning to GUID partitioning
Supports boot device >2TB
Only for fresh XS installs

10% Dom0 size reduction



Linux: - 4%
Windows: 2 - 6%

64 bit hypervisor

16CPU

: www.openvswitch.org
2

VM

VM

DVS

Web

VM

VM

VM

 Fail Safe mode

DVS
vSwitch ACLs,
QoS, RSPAN Netflow

Newly plugged VIFs
New VMs
XenMotioned VMs (manual and through WLB)
VMs on new pool members

PoolPrivate Networks



16 vCPU per VM
128GB Memory per VM

1TB Physical RAM support

XenServer resource pool

API

VM
API

SDK, CLI, CIM
XenAPI

VM
VM
Mgt
State

Mgt
State

VM
Mgt
State

VM

XenServer Resource Pool

Mgt
State

HA
Master

/ emails

VM VM VM
VM
VM VM

VM

Mgt
State
Mgt
State

XenServer Resource Pool

VM
VM
Mgt
State

VM
Mgt
State

VM
VM

VM
VM

12,000
500 pools of 22 hosts; >100,000 VMs

-XenMotion Live Migration

Shared Storage



XenCenter

CPU
Virtual Machine

Xenserver
Virtual Machine

CPU

(vApp)
vApps Virtual
Appliances
OVF definition of Virtual Appliance

vApp

XenCenter
Integrated Site Recovery
Appliance Import and Export
HA

(vApp)
vApp


windows
based
WLB
Small footprint, Linux
Virtual Appliance
~150Mb

(DMC)

 (VMPR)
XS
VMPR

Rolling Pool


Pre-checks with instructions to
resolve
Step-by-step procedure for
upgrades
Blocks unsupported upgrades

Rolling Pool
()
HTTP, NFS or FTP

CD or PXE

API

StorageLink
StorageLinkStorageLink Gateway
LUN-per-VDI
Using array smarts

StorageLink
Removes SPOF

NetApp
Dell EqualLogic
Planned: EMC Clariion and EMC VNX series through SMI-S (post-release)*

StorageLink Gateway
XenServer Host

Windows Platform

XAPI Daemon
SMAPI

StorageLink Gateway
LVM NFS NetApp

CSLG
Bridge

EQL NetApp

SMI-S

 StorageLink
XenServer Host

XAPI Daemon
SMAPI

LVM NFS NetApp

EQL NetApp

SMI-S

CSLG
Bridge

Integrated Site Recovery

XenServer XenCenter
failover failback

vApp grouping startup order

Failover
Powerstate of source VM
Duplicate VMs on target pool
SR connectivity

StorageLink Site Recovery

Citrix
StorageLink
Site Recovery

Citrix Confidential Subject to NDA

Lab Manager

Employ
and
Automate

debugging,

Provision

Collaborate

Reclaim

Web

Xenscenter

:

VM

Active Directory
XenServer

( VNC RDP)

 GPU pass-through
VDI
HDX3D Pro3

CAD

RemoteFX, virtual
GPUs,

GPU pass-through
GPU pass-through,
PC

GPU pass-through,
75%
GPU cards

XenServer Host

-IntelliCache
XenDesktop 5

XenServer 5.6 SP2

IntelliCache
PoolI/O
AssignedI/O
Still need IOPS for write traffic
Local write cache benefits

TCO 15 30 %


XenConvert P2V
XenCenterVM disk OVF appliance

Name
vCPU
vMemory
Virtual Interfaces
Target SR

imagevm


OVF
XenServer 5.6 and above
XenConvert 2.2.1 and above
Vmware ESX 3.5 and above

VHDOVF
vApps
(.ova)(ova.gz)
OVF EULA
Manifest & Digital Signature


Added to XenServer
5.6 FP1 for Linux
Bridge
CLI only in 5.6 FP1

Added support for

Active-Backup for
Open vSwitch
Configurable through
XenCenter

XenServer Solarflare SR-IOV

Typical SR-IOV Implementation
Guest
VM

App

Guest
VM

App

VF driver

XS & Solarflare SR-IOV Model

Guest
VM

App

Netfront
driver

VF driver

Plug-in
driver
VF

dom0

dom0
Netback
driver

vSwitch

vSwitch

Physical
driver

Physical driver

Virtual NIC

Virtual NIC

NIC

Improved performance, but loss

of services and management
(e.g., live migration)

Virtual NIC

NIC

Improved performance
AND full use of services
and management

 SCVMM and SCOM

XenServer 6.0 SCVMM and
SCOM
System Center Virtual Machine
ManagerXS
System Center Operations
Manager packXS

Host/Pool
XenCenter (e.g. HA,
DR)

XenServer

Capability

Loc
al
Dis
k

Fibre
Chan
nel

iSCSI
hardw
are

iSCSI
softw
are

NFS
bas
ed

Net
App

EqualL
ogic

Store VM

Automatic
VM
Placement

XenMotion
VMs

Resize
Disks

Fast export

Thin
Provision

Xenserver
OS

XenServer

Virtualized Server

Provisioning Server
(streaming service)

Physical Server

Network
Storage

Xenserver

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