Setup Guide

Overview 9
Overview
Citrix
®
XenServer™ Dell™ Edition with its 64-bit open-source Xen
hypervisor at the core, is a powerful virtualization solution that enables
efficient resource consolidation, utilization, dynamic provisioning, and
integrated systems management. XenServer Dell Edition has a small
footprint and is optimized to run from an internal flash storage in
Dell PowerEdge™ systems. For added flexibility, you can also install
XenServer Dell Edition on a hard drive.
Dell and Citrix have partnered to bring pre-qualified and virtualization-ready
platforms for dynamic and growing data centers. This guide provides
information about XenServer Dell Edition features, supported hardware,
reference configurations, and best practices.
Citrix XenServer Dell Edition Features
This section describes the features of the XenServer Dell Edition.
• Factory installed from Dell — XenServer Dell Edition is factory installed
on select PowerEdge and blade systems. This reduces the installation
and deployment time required to get your XenServer-based
infrastructure ready to run virtual machines (VMs).
• Integrated systems management and monitoring — XenServer
Dell Edition comes pre-installed with Dell OpenManage™ Server
Administrator. This enables systems management without any
additional need to install an agent on the host.
• XenServer Local Console — XenServer Dell Edition includes a XenServer
Local Console user interface to enable local administration of the host.
XenServer Local Console enables you to configure and view host-specific
properties such as management network configuration, local storage for
VMs, etc. XenCenter
®
, the standard Microsoft
®
Windows
®
management
console for XenServer, is also available.