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XenServer 5.5, available today

by on17 June 2009

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Citrix pushes into virtualisation


Citrix has
released its free XenServer 5.5 today in a move that people in the know claim will help the outfit gain share in the server virtualization software market.

This version of 5.5 has Active Directory integration and has more features than rival's VMware's free hypervisor, ESXi. XenServer 5.5 supports for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Debian 5.0, as well as Red Hat, CentOS and Oracle 5.3. It also has XenConvert, which allows managers to migrate virtual machines from VMware's Virtual Machine Disk Format to the same Virtual Hard Disk format used by Citrix and Redmond.

It also released Citrix Essentials 5.5 for XenServer and Hyper-V, which provides additional management capabilities. That will still cost you though. Its suggested price is $2,500 per server.

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