XenServer 6.0 Beta
XenServer 6.0 Beta is our goal of continued simplification and product improvements to “cloud-enable” enterprises and “enterprise-enable” service providers. This release introduces private cloud self-service tools and platform, networking, performance and scalability improvements designed to enable a multi-tenant environment that reduces your infrastructure total cost of ownership.
Key features
- Product simplification: Includes full integration and management from XenCenter of StorageLink and Site Recovery. All new Linux-based virtual appliances and a single installation ISO.
- Enhanced architecture: This release is based on the Xen 4.1 hypervisor and includes Open vSwitch as the default network stack, SR-IOV support and improved networking performance.
- XenDesktop enhancements & improvements: HDX enhancements, optimized virtual desktop user experience and GPU pass-through.
- Guest OS support updates: New Guest OS support includes Ubuntu 10.04 support, RHEL 5.6 and SLES 10 SP4 support updates. Experimental support for Solaris and Ubuntu 10.10.
- Self-service & cloud-building tools: Includes new Self-Service Manager feature which enables you to build "private cloud" self-service environments. Create boot sequenced multi-VM virtual appliances for use with High Availability and Site Recovery and ability to import VMware VMDK and Microsoft VHD disk images.
- Microsoft System Center integration: Manage XenServer hosts and VMs with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. Monitor XenServer hosts with the System Center Operations Manager 2012 and special Supplemental pack from Citrix upon System Center 2012 release.
- Platform enhancements & improvements: "Rolling Pool Upgrade" wizard, NFS support for High availability, 1TB host RAM support, increased VM vCPU, vRAM levels and NIC bonding improvements.