What is Citrix Hypervisor?
Citrix Hypervisor, formerly known as Citrix XenServer, is an enterprise-grade open-source virtualization platform powered by the Xen hypervisor. It allows you to manage virtual machines, storage, and networking in a simple yet robust manner.
Some key capabilities and benefits of Citrix Hypervisor include:
- Supports hosting Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris operating systems as virtual machines
- Built-in tools for VM lifecycle management, storage and network configuration
- Live migration of VMs between hosts for zero downtime maintenance
- Dynamic memory control to efficiently allocate resources to VMs
- Integrated distributed virtual switching for software-defined networking
- High availability with automated VM failover
- Centralized management console for monitoring infrastructure
- Active directory integration for access control and automation
- APIs and command line tools for automation and integration
- Free to use with commercial-grade support available
With its small footprint, high performance and reliability, Citrix Hypervisor is well-suited for on-premises and cloud-based virtual infrastructure. The platform scales from small test environments to large production deployments while providing cross-platform support, security enhancements and flexible networking.