Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V

Advanced server virtualization management for Hyper-V

Citrix® Essentials™ for Microsoft® Hyper-V™, offers advanced server virtualization management capabilities for Hyper-V to help Windows Server 2008 customers create highly scalable, manageable and agile environments for Hyper-V virtual machines.

Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V includes:

• Seamless storage integration Citrix StorageLink™ technology exposes the advanced data and storage management features in today’s storage systems directly to a Hyper-V environment.
• Automated lab management enables self service set-up and tear down of non-production Hyper-V virtual environments typically used in development, support and training organizations reducing management complexity, time and cost.
• Stage management streamlines the process of building, testing, sharing and delivering applications, using Hyper-V virtual machines, on-demand into production environments.
• Dynamic provisioning services provides simple deployment of workloads to any combination of Hyper-V virtual machines or physical Windows servers from a single golden image.
• Workflow orchestration enables customized automation of key management processes for Hyper-V virtual infrastructure.