Setup Guide

Overview 9
Overview
With the 64-bit open-source Xen hypervisor at its core, Citrix
®
XenServer
Dell™ Edition 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
disk drive.
Dell and Citrix have partnered to bring pre-qualified and virtualization-ready
platforms for today’s dynamic and growing data centers. This guide provides
information on 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 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.