With typical data centers suffering from utilization rates of under 15%, improving utilization is a key to reducing data center server sprawl. Citrix XenServer virtualization decouples the physical hardware from the operating systems that run on it and enables multiple operating system instances to be resident on a single physical server.
This, in turn, allows multiple applications to be housed on a single server, utilizing otherwise idle server capacity and reducing the number of servers required in the data center. the XenSource v4 product family enables you to easily get Xen up and running. It's an integrated package that includes a comprehensive tool set to simplify deployment, provisioning and management of a Xen-based virtual infrastructure.
By increasing server utilization, enabling server consolidation, and streamlining server management, Citrix XenServer can dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership for data center server deployment:
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Reduce server capital expenditures – Increased server utilization and server consolidation dramatically reduces capital expenses required for new server acquisition.
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Reduce facilities costs – Server consolidation not only frees up space in the data center, it also reduces your power and cooling requirements deferring the need to build-out new data center facilities.
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Reduce server management costs – For every dollar spent on server capital expenditures, organizations spend $5-6 per year on operating expenses. Eliminate server burden costs for deployment, administration, maintenance, and patch management.
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Reduce operating system configurations - Citrix XenServer decreases the number of operating system configurations in a data center environment, often from thousands to less than ten. This drastically reduces the time required to deploy upgrades and patches.
The affordable Citrix XenServer product family radically changes the economics of virtualization. The products can be affordably deployed to every server in the enterprise. Compare this with proprietary hypervisors at three or more times the cost, and the advantage of Citrix XenServer virtualization solutions is clear.