Comments on: Citrix Xenserver: Xen or Hyper-V? Does it matter? http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/2008/07/02/citrix-xenserver-xen-or-hyper-v-does-it-matter/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Srihari Palangala http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/2008/07/02/citrix-xenserver-xen-or-hyper-v-does-it-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Srihari Palangala Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:28:15 +0000 http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/?p=71#comment-55 Hi Daniel, Thank you for recognizing VMLogix LabManager in your post as a hypervisor agnostic management application. You are spot on and this commitment to being hypervisor independent is core to our product strategy. We recently (last week) announced support of Microsoft Hyper-V as well. You can check out some screenshots and a demo movie on our blog -- http://blog.vmlogix.com Like it has been noted in the industry, we are the first in the segment to offer this capability to our customers. Thanks, Srihari Palangala http://blog.vmlogix.com Hi Daniel,
Thank you for recognizing VMLogix LabManager in your post as a hypervisor agnostic management application. You are spot on and this commitment to being hypervisor independent is core to our product strategy.

We recently (last week) announced support of Microsoft Hyper-V as well. You can check out some screenshots and a demo movie on our blog — http://blog.vmlogix.com

Like it has been noted in the industry, we are the first in the segment to offer this capability to our customers.

Thanks,

Srihari Palangala
http://blog.vmlogix.com

]]> By: daniel http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/2008/07/02/citrix-xenserver-xen-or-hyper-v-does-it-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-28 daniel Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:29:23 +0000 http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/?p=71#comment-28 Hey Scott Thanks for the comment. Every time I hear about XenDesktop from Citrix, they're saying "it's VM agnostic". They don't want you to think you have to replace your existing VMWare infrastructure with XenServer. So adding Hyper-V as a backend for XenDesktop seems trivial. I'm not Citrix though, so who knows :) Hey Scott

Thanks for the comment. Every time I hear about XenDesktop from Citrix, they’re saying “it’s VM agnostic”. They don’t want you to think you have to replace your existing VMWare infrastructure with XenServer. So adding Hyper-V as a backend for XenDesktop seems trivial. I’m not Citrix though, so who knows :)

]]> By: Scott Lowe http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/2008/07/02/citrix-xenserver-xen-or-hyper-v-does-it-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Scott Lowe Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:24:44 +0000 http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/blog/?p=71#comment-27 Daniel, Thanks for reading! I could see Citrix possibly moving into cross-platform virtualization management, whether via XenCenter or something else. To me, though, this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. Microsoft is already hard at work building VMM 2008 into a cross-platform management tool, and XenCenter is still just focused on managing XenServer. It seems they would have a great deal of catching up to do. Of course, I'm no expert, so I could very well be completely wrong. As I mentioned in my post, though, it would make a great deal of sense for Citrix to make XenDesktop work well with Hyper-V. The same goes for Citrix Provisioning Server and Citrix Application Streaming; both of these could add tremendous value to a Hyper-V installation (heck, they add value to a VMware installation). These are areas where Citrix could really help round out Hyper-V's functionality, much like Presentation Server (er, XenApp) helps to round out Terminal Services' functionality. Daniel,

Thanks for reading! I could see Citrix possibly moving into cross-platform virtualization management, whether via XenCenter or something else. To me, though, this just doesn’t make a great deal of sense. Microsoft is already hard at work building VMM 2008 into a cross-platform management tool, and XenCenter is still just focused on managing XenServer. It seems they would have a great deal of catching up to do. Of course, I’m no expert, so I could very well be completely wrong.

As I mentioned in my post, though, it would make a great deal of sense for Citrix to make XenDesktop work well with Hyper-V. The same goes for Citrix Provisioning Server and Citrix Application Streaming; both of these could add tremendous value to a Hyper-V installation (heck, they add value to a VMware installation). These are areas where Citrix could really help round out Hyper-V’s functionality, much like Presentation Server (er, XenApp) helps to round out Terminal Services’ functionality.

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