Xen Server Consultant

With Xen Server offered as a free base platform for Citrix XenApp solutions, you may think that means that you may as well go ahead and test its efficiencies yourself before applying it to your entire network. Such thinking can save a company the money it takes to hire a consultant but cost you your job and the entire server room if you are wrong. Xen Server was designed to reduce the overhead of hosting physical servers, not result in the replacement of the entire network.

With XenServer now free for unlimited production deployment, more and more corporations are converting to server virtualization solutions which means that Citrix has increased the training schedule of certification for the Xen Server Consultant. To run XenServer your host system must have Intel's VT or AMD-V processors, but your Xen Server Consultant can handle that because most servers, and now desktops, are standardized with that capability.

The Xen Server Consultant may decide to start with just one processor even though up to 32 processors can be supported with up to 128GB of memory. Because level three provides system-level tolerance, the virtual machines will be protected from failure and maintain applications and memory pre-failure. Ask the Xen Server Consultant for advice on the use of Citrix Essentials for XenServer or Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V for greater ease in the deployment of multiple virtualization systems and machines.

Listen to the advice of the Xen Server Consultant who recommends a multi-stage roll-out of your server virtualization solution within a controlled environment of a small percentage of your servers. For projects of only 10 servers this is not as critical; they are most likely in the same small room so try the least critical first. For major conversion projects of thousands of servers worldwide, the Xen Server Consultant will probably recommend that you begin with one region. In a deployment project of 1500 local servers test 500 first before virtualizing all 1500.

A Xen Server Consultant recommends adding Xen Server as the base platform under XenApp because of the increase in flexibility and cost effectiveness. Xen Server allows the consolidation of the number of physical servers that you have in production requiring almost no overhead. With more than one million servers in enterprise datacenters today running XenApp, the well trained Xen Server Consultant has the background and knowledge to transform your server room in to the virtual reality of your dreams.

Citrix has created a brilliant solution in response to the fears voiced in today's economic climate and increased the number of trained Xen Server Consultants from 500 to 2500 in response to the demand for this new standard of free virtualization. By dramatically lowering the entry price of virtualization, Citrix has enabled businesses of all sizes, regardless of budget, to adopt enterprise-class virtualization and remain competitive.

A Xen Server Consultant will know exactly how to implement your virtualization project for a seamless deployment safeguarding your priceless and irreplaceable asset; information.