1. Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack Data Sheet
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Feature Description
Fastest Time to Value Mature and Proven at Scale
Turn-key Cloud Solution
Simple, one-package installation. Allow administrators to install as a starter cloud or run at scale with centralized
management across different regions or availability zones.
Proven at Scale Scale beyond 40,000 hosts per region with multiple regions running in production public and private clouds.
On-Demand Virtual Data Center Hosting Provide users with virtually unlimited amount of computing resources – on demand as required and billed by actual usage.
Usage Metering
Provide users real-time visibility, produce historical usage reports, and create billing invoices by integrating with
metering data generated by the CloudPlatform Usage Engine.
Citrix CloudPortal
Business Manager Integration
Provision services defined in CloudPortal Business Manager through CloudPlatform. Support the commercial and
operational aspects of cloud service delivery for enterprise IT and service providers using CloudPortal Business
Manager based on usage metrics and user profiles from CloudPlatform.
Deliver every workload Leverage best of breed virtualization, storage and networking technologies
Scale Up and Scale Out workloads
Orchestrate every workload regardless of type: scale-up workloads such ERP/CRM/RDBMS and scale-out
workloads such as social, mobile and big data apps on the same cloud deployment.
Hypervisor Agnostic Support commercial hypervisors including Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, Oracle VM, KVM, and Bare Metal.
Storage Agnostic Orchestrates over block, file and object storage irrespective of the storage technologies and prototocols underneath.
Network and Network Services
CloudPlatform allows users to choose the type of network architecture that best fits their needs. Networks available
out-of-box include the Basic Network, a flat L3 network or an advanced network which could be based on VLANs or
SDNs and allows the users with a wide variety of network services. CloudPlatform also comes with an in-built virtual
router which can provide all of the network services.
Enterprise-Class Cloud Architecture Multitenancy and Workload Encapsulation for the Enterprise
Dedicated Private Cloud/Physical Isolation
CloudPlatform's infrastructure layers - hosts, clusters, pods, zones provide physical isolation for resources such
as CPU, memory, storage and network. Dedicated resources can be applied to any of the infrastructure layers to
support virtual private cloud use cases.
Logical Isolation
CloudPlatform's logical isolation hierarchy includes - Domain, Sub-domain, Account, Users. Usage quotas can
be applied onto any layer in the hierarchy. CloudPlatform's logical isolation hierarchy can be used to model the
organizational structure in typical enterprises so that a domain can represent a business unit; users can be grouped
into Accounts which may represent a team. A sub-domain could represent a division in a larger business unit.
Granular Tracking and Metering
Support admin-defined service offerings. Resources consumed in the service offerings can be granularly tracked
and metered for showback/chargeback to individual users, business units or by projects. Advanced metering is
supported through the integration with CloudPortal Business Manager.
Enterprise Grade Cloud Networking
Meet enterprise networking requirements for architectual complexity, scale, customer defined SLA's and load
balancing/firewall services. CloudPlatform allows admins to either use commodity infrastructure or best-of-breed
products for networking and network services. In-built virtual router provides all of the network services out-of-box.
Admins can also integrate purpose-built infrastructure components for specific network services.
nTier Applications and Virtual Private Cloud
CloudPlatform provides enterprise applications and virtual private clouds with the same level of enterprise grade
security and reliability as traditional IT. Granular networking, routing, firewall rules, load balancing and access control
can be applied to individual application tiers.
Vmware vCenter Integration
With the integration with Vmware Vcenter, CloudPlatform can manage the VMware environment and perform tasks
such as Virtual HW hot add, VMotion, VMware HA and DRS, apply CPU & RAM overcommit controls, VM snapshots,
snapshot restore and volume snapshot enhancements. Additionally, dvSwitch and PVLAN networking support enabled.
Citrix CloudPlatform,
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Trusted to power the world’s leading clouds
Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, is the industry's only future-proofed, application-centric cloud solution
proven to reliably orchestrate both cloud-native workloads and existing enterprise workloads with a single unified solution. The
turn-key solution is based on an open architecture that lets you leverage existing virtualization and hardware investments and
is trusted to power the world's leading clouds.

2. About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is the cloud company that enables mobile workstyles—empowering people to work and collaborate from anywhere, easily
and securely. With market-leading solutions for mobility, desktop virtualization, cloud networking, cloud platforms, collaboration and data sharing,
Citrix helps organizations achieve the speed and agility necessary to succeed in a mobile and dynamic world. Citrix products are in use at more
than 260,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Annual revenue in 2012 was $2.59 billion. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
Copyright © 2013 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Citrix, CloudPortal, XenServer and NetScaler are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc.
and/or one of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. and other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may
be trademarks of their respective companies.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
style Operations and Scale
Cloud era Scalability and Operations
Object Storage
Enable AWS S3-like object storage in a region or across multiple zones. Provide scale out workloads with
transparent access to storage across geographic and logically defined locations. The same S3 based object storage
can be used as secondary storage for IaaS and Storage as a Service (STaaS).
Regions
Create AWS-like Regions consisting of multiple availability zones. By creating multiple Regions, CCP admins can
achieve higher availability, higher scalability as well as geo- specific compliance requirements for data as well as
management plane.
Virtual Machine Management
Manage virtual machine creation and maintenance. Import, create, store OS and ISO templates
in CloudPlatform. Launch VMs across multiple zones using the same template. Preserve configuration states with
VM in the secondary storage, take snapshots of disk volume on a scheduled or adhoc basis.
Advanced Cloud Networking
Cloud providers can provide advanced cloud networking configurations and Network-as-a Service (out of the box)
that includes portable IP, advanced load balancing with GSLB. More granular control of networking resources such as
built-in router that provide network services such as DHCP, NAT, load balancing, Firewall VPN and port forwarding.
On-Demand, Automatic Elasticity
Similar to autoscaling in AWS, CloudPlatform along with NetScaler provides AutoScale Technology that
automatically expands and contracts the cloud resource according to application demands.
Unified and Flexible Management
Manage large-scale, geographically diverse cloud infrastructure trhough a centralized, active/active management server
cluster. Designed for redundancy, any single component failure cannot cause a cluster-wide or cloud-wide outage.
Open and Flexible Architecture API Compatibility with AWS
Open source and community led
CloudPlatform's code base has been merged with Apache Cloudstack, the most active community-led project in the
Apache Foundation.
Flexible user and management interfaces
Provides multiple methods for interacting with the management layers. From a rich, menu- driven, web-based admin
interface to interacting directly with the CloudStack RESTful API or command line interface (CLI).
3rd party integration Integrated with multi-cloud deployment, monitoring tools and billing solutions.
Industry Standard APIs
CloudPlatform API's are extensible and well-documented and includes support for Amazon Web Services (EC2)
and S3 APIs.
Third Party Plug-in Framework
Custom plug-ins built by customers or partners have seamless UI integration with CloudPlatform. Plug-in will appear
alongside with Citrix-provided features.
Platform Features Unified and Flexible Management
Secure Multi-tenancy
CloudPlatform infrastructure management technologies provide a secure multitenant cloud environment to be built
on shared datacenter hardware. Customers have the choice of building the cloud on commodity or enterprise-grade
server, storage, and networking equipment.
Secure Cloud Deployment
Ensures that all memory, CPU, network, and storage resources are both available and isolated from one user
account to another within the cloud.
Host Maintenance with Live Migration
Upgrades and hardware maintenance can be achieved on the cloud with no downtime for guest VMs. Citrix
CloudPlatform will live-migrate any VMs from hosts that have been targeted for maintenance to prevent any
disruption of service.
Storage Maintenance
Citrix CloudPlatform facilitates periodic storage maintenance by allowing administrators to gracefully shutdown all
guest VMs with a single click. Once maintenance has been completed, all guest VMs tied to that storage server are
automatically restarted.
Guest Password Management
Users can further enhance their guest OS templates to include CloudPlatform custom random password feature that
will automatically generate a unique password upon the creation of a VM. This will allow your customers to securely
login and change their password. Both Windows and Linux based OS platforms are currently supported.