4. Almost any operating system you want. Q. What can you run as a virtual machine? Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 2000, 2003, 2008…) Linux (RHEL, SLES, Debian, Centos, Oracle…) Many more community supported guests
8. Server consolidation Failure recovery Security and sandboxing Resource balancing Backup, restore and clone Simple management Benefits of Virtualization
38. Graphical interface VM console access Component integration Plugins and SDKs XenCentermanagement console
39. XML-RPC based Libraries and examples for Java, C#, C, Python, PowerShell XenCenter uses C# bindings http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/Download+SDKs Open source licensing Backwards compatible Software development kit for XenServer
40. 24 hour project using C# XenServer bindings Ask the VMs politely to turn off Knock them out if they don’t Turn off all slaves first before the master Allow the user to set which VMs should wake SleepyLabs example