Archive/XCP/XenServer Feature Matrix: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:52, 28 March 2012

Features	Xen Cloud Platform	XenServer Free	XenServer Advanced	XenServer Enterprise	XenServer Platinum
Cost/Licensing	Free/Open Source (Multiple Licenses ¹)	Free/Citrix EULA	Paid/Citrix EULA
XenServer hypervisor	X	X	X	X	X
IntelliCache	X	X	X	X	X
Resilient distributed management architecture	X	X	X	X	X
VM disk snapshot and revert	X	X	X	X	X
XenCenter management	X	X	X	X	X
Conversion tools	X	X	X	X	X
XenMotion® live Migration	X	X	X	X	X
Heterogeneous pools	X		X	X	X
Dynamic Memory Control	X		X	X	X
Performance alerting and reporting	X		X	X	X
Distributed virtual switching management tool			X	X	X
High availability			X	X	X
Host power management	X			X	X
Live memory snapshot and revert	X			X	X
Role-based administration	X			X	X
Dynamic workload balancing				X	X
Provisioning services (virtual)				X	X
StorageLink				X	X
Web self-service with delegated admin	X ²			X	X
Automated VM protection and recovery	X		X	X ³	X ³
Site recovery	X				X
Lab manager with self-service portal					X
Provisioning services (physical)					X

XenServer features taken from the XenServer Editions page

[1] LGPL, GPL, Q Public License v1

[2] works flawless using original Virtual Appliance from Citrix (tested: XCP 1.5beta (1.4.90) and XenServer-wss-1.1.1.xva)

[3] Automated VM protection and recovery is only available for the Advanced and Enterprise editions in the 6.0 release and later.

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