Virtualization is an ideal tool for testing and development. It allows you to greatly simplify repetitive tasks such as server configuration while physically consolidating the sprawl of your current testing and development servers. And coupled with automated lab management, even the largest, most dynamic, most multi-version development and testing environment can become more affordable and more responsive.
Citrix XenServer software greatly simplifies the tasks of building and provisioning new servers. Need to fire up a farm of hundreds of virtual servers to replicate real-world conditions? Or maybe just one? Either way, it’s a snap. With a single mouse click you can clone the pre-built virtual server you need from a template - in many cases, in just seconds.
Citrix XenServer virtualization is based on the free open source Xen hypervisor, and offers near-native performance. That means you can build a test grid with more virtual servers on fewer physical machines at less cost. The result is a significant increase in the realism of your large scale testing.
Server proliferation isn’t just a problem for your main data center. It’s a problem for the lab too. Citrix XenServer makes server consolidation easy — even enabling you to archive virtual servers to disk so that can then be recalled, and replicated over and over, at a moment’s notice.
Build complex multi-tier server architectures on a single box — once. Save. Test. Crash. Restore. Repeat.
VMLogix LabManager integration with Citrix XenServer provides customers with enterprise-class virtual lab automation for accelerating global software delivery, consolidating and improving utilization of lab infrastructure, and eliminating virtual and physical machine sprawl. The combined solution allows developers, testers and support engineers to easily create, share and deploy multi-machine build, test and support environments using Citrix XenServer virtual machines. Learn More.