Citrix XenServer: A Brief Review
Overall, we're quite pleased with Citrix's product. They have a polished tool that takes the drudgery out of Xen administration, and they've made a stable product. In our opinion, it's considerably better than using any of the frontends that are available from the open source version, and it's at least as reliable.
Along with the XenCenter frontend (the most obvious difference), XenServer does well in ease of installation and manageability. The combination of templates and streamlined domU creation is particularly nice.
Another advantage of the XenServer product is its inclusion of paravirtualized drivers for Windows. Although GPL PV drivers are in development and available (see Chapter 13 for more information), ...
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