The most valuable feature is transferring and sharing applications that allow users to move files between devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers without needing USB cables, internet connections, or data usage. It enables users to transfer various file types such as photos, videos, and documents. The direct device-to-device transfer can use phone WiFi to connect directly to devices, bypassing the need for network connectivity.

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The product is fairly easy to work with. You don't have that much overhead compared to VMware. It is quite robust and runs without requiring much worry. These are the main advantages. Of course, there are also disadvantages, and one of them is that disk management is not as sophisticated compared to VMware.

Live migration is certainly one of the features needed most of the time when implementing new hardware. It helps significantly with live migration. The migration from other VDI solutions to Citrix XenServer was straightforward without major problems.

The deployment of Citrix XenServer is very easy. Almost everyone can set up a Citrix XenServer cluster as it's not complicated.

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In the past, we utilized the live migration feature in Citrix XenServer, but not in this project. This is a new, fresh deployment, so there is no live migration.

The support of heterogeneous resource pool in Citrix XenServer depends on the deployment and customer requirements. If a customer requires heterogeneous deployment, we accommodate that. Generally, Citrix XenServer goes in straightforward vanilla deployment because it is majorly used for Citrix farms. Very few customers use it for other products or applications.

Intelligent performance optimization is available in this product, but very few customers use it, and those who do aren't using it extensively. I cannot comment extensively on this feature at present.

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I find Citrix XenServer valuable for small to medium-sized businesses. It is user-friendly and easy to deploy, making it an attractive option. When included with Citrix virtualization solutions, it provides a comprehensive package with existing licenses. Despite being effective for small to medium infrastructures, it may not be the best hypervisor for larger deployments.

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The most helpful features of Citrix XenServer are that you can consolidate everything onto one web page. For our use case, this is probably the easiest solution because there are many different software applications running in our environment.

The benefits from using Citrix include increased productivity, as users don't have to search for what they need to open. They can see everything in one place instead of having numerous links in Chrome or on their home page. They simply go to our Citrix page and see everything they need. We can also specify access permissions per user, so they only get the software they require. If users have lists or reports they need to create, we can add the icons on Citrix, and they can open them directly. Everything is in the same place, so they don't have to search for anything anymore. This is the biggest productivity increase.

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The most helpful features of Citrix XenServer that I found so far include its migration capability and the UI for centralized management because we deploy a multi-node server. We need something similar to vCenter for the replacement.

The centralized management console UI helps me save time and provides benefits in terms of performance, making me more efficient to manage the server. We can monitor and ensure observability through these features.

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Citrix XenServer is suitable when working with VDI solutions. It provides essential capabilities and stability, which are crucial. The Citrix platform offers high availability solutions, so a hypervisor doesn't need to have many specialized features. The primary goal should be to ensure the hypervisor's security and reliability. View full review »

Here's where it excels:

• Virtualization: The core function enables multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. This maximizes hardware utilization and efficiency.
• Resource Management: Citrix Hypervisor allows us to allocate CPU, memory, storage, and network resources across VMs. This ensures optimal performance and helps prevent resource conflicts.
• High Availability: VDI environments often require high availability. Hypervisor often includes features for automatic failover and live migration of VMs to other physical servers. This minimizes downtime in case of hardware failure or maintenance.
• Scalability: It supports dynamic addition and removal of virtual machines, allowing the infrastructure to scale up or down quickly based on demand.

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It's a very good solution for fast and comfortable work with the host servers and virtualization machines, and it includes a bundle of licenses that are very comfortable to use.

I use its Live Migration feature.

I use the Disaster Recovery features.

They have helped me to ensure high availability.

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I find Citrix XenServer valuable for its affordable server virtualization capabilities. It provides secure access to applications and resources, which is crucial for us and our clients.

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Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use.

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The solution offers high availability.

It allows for good backups.

The stability has been fine. It's excellent.

It is nice that it is on the cloud.

Creating snapshots and templates is very useful for us.

We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another.

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Citrix is easy to use and is stable.

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All the features are good. We are not using it completely since we are using it as a second product in the company. It's not the primary solution. Primarily, we are using VMware.

The initial setup is easy.

It's stable. 

The solution can scale.

Technical support has been responsive.

The ROI is quite good.

We find the pricing to be reasonable. 

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The most valuable feature is its stability.

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There's no complexity in using the tool, especially with the VBI integration. It works very well and has proven to be a stable platform. I have experienced attacks, such as ransomware, but my Citrix Hypervisor virtual machines were protected. This is due to its hardened operating system and DNS, which successfully protected the virtual machines on that platform.

The tool's most valuable features are high availability and load balancing. If one hardware server goes out of service in a multiple-host cluster, my workload automatically starts on another hardware host. Load balancing adjusts based on the load on a particular virtual machine or hardware, automatically balancing the load across multiple hosts. This ensures I get optimal performance from my resources.

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Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage.

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I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains.

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What I find most valuable in Citrix Hypervisor is its licensing policy, because you'll get it for free if you buy a Citrix XenDesktop license. You don't need to spend additional money on the Citrix Hypervisor because you can manage both the Citrix XenDesktop and the Citrix Hypervisor with just one license, so you can save on cost.

I also like that the solution is good support-wise. Hardware support is also faster compared to other solutions.

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It's easy to migrate VMs using Hypervisor.

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Citrix Hypervisor integrates easily and I can manage the infrastructure better. If I need to take a machine down to expand the hard drive, I do not have to physically be here. I do not need to order new equipment or new hard drives. I can shut it down, increase the drive space and bring it back up. I find that hypervisor updates are extremely easy to do.

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Citrix allows you to move your virtual machines from one host to the other, with the host geographical prefix. I think that's an awesome feature. We can access infographics and manuals, and communicate easily with each other. Great security features.

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It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure.

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The solution is extremely user friendly.

It's quite scalable.

We've found the solution to be very stable.

The product is working as per our expectations, and, it's giving us optimal performance in terms of connectivity for my end users. 

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The most valuable feature of this product is that its scripting can automate procedures. I have also had a very good experience with its storage.

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The online support material is great. Citrix has the more complete online material.

The product is more inclusive than other options, which is nice. 

It's not as complex as other options. It's easier to use.

The onboarding process is pretty straightforward. 

The product is a great option for enterprise-level organizations.

The solution offers a wide array of compatibility with, for example, some image files of other systems, and can be virtualized using another solution. The Citrix Hypervisor has a larger range of compatibility.

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The feature that is most valuable to us is the XenMotion (live migration) feature. It is critical for us, especially when doing maintenance work. That is a must-have feature. Also Storage XenMotion. The ability to move a VM while it is still running and continue doing maintenance on that is a big advantage.

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The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days.

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The solution's security is its most valuable aspect.

The customization is very good.

Technical support is very, very good. They are very knowledgeable and responsive.

The pricing is good if you compare it to what else is on the market.

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The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good. If there's a problem with one host, the machines get migrated off. This is something that works well.

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The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines. For example, have a primary and secondary machine and being able to put the user on one machine and patch up the other one and rotate.

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All features of the product are valuable, depends on the situation. I have used all of the features at one time or another.

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What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration.

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The support for this solution is phenomenal.

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Simply the ability to virtualize and make better use of existing resources is the most valuable aspect of this solution.

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The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy.

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The solution is easy to deploy. It's very easy to understand problems and read logs.

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The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers.

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The feature I find most valuable is its performance. It's a no "frills" solution. There aren't many tools and some may find that a little arcane, but I come from another visualization background. I like the console because you can do everything on the console, so you don't need any tools. 

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The price is the solution's most valuable feature.

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I'm currently using the free version, so I'm limited as to what I find the most valuable in the broader set of product features. For me, just the ability to virtualize servers is the most valuable.

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The most valuable feature is the possibility of creating virtual machine templates from a snapshot and vice versa. It saves me many hours of work.

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The most valuable feature is the cost; it is a free product.

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We find there are good central maintenance and management panels.

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High-availability options in a cluster are good.

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Xen is an open source virtualization server widely used in IT. It provides simple and robust commands to manage Xen environment for managing virtual hosts.Backup and recovery of virtual hosts are simple. It can be managed remotely with XenCenter. It supports all client OS like windows, linux etc !!

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• Cost effective
• Performance
• Overall simplicity

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Basic virtualization, we used it before we already had the license as we’re a Citrix shop, so it’s cost effective. If we were looking for another solution, we wouldn't go with it.

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The high availability facility.

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XenServer have four different editions: Free, Advanced, Enterprise, Platinum. You can ask for free license at no cost but you have to renew it each year. The free edition lacks some features that are only available on the other three editions. We can easily access XenServer from XenCenter; we can even manage multiple XenServer from a single XenCenter. View full review »

XenServer is my favorite virtualization product. After previewing Vmware, Xen, and Hyper-V, I found this to be the easiest. You don't have to know linux to use. I like that XenServer can import virtual machines from any of the other hypervisors. I use scheduled snapshots and archiving, to where I don't have to worry if my machines are backed up. XenMotion is a breeze and makes it extremely easy to upgrade or change out servers. I also like that you can have heterogeneous pools with XenServer Advanced or above. View full review »

• Simple and highly optimized performance • Distinctive storage integration characteristic, through which the administrator directly leverages characteristics of industry’s most important arrays. • XenServer backup and recovery pursues an agent based strategy. Using this, the client can gain an application level of understanding. • This server utilizes sophisticated WLB, which confines Central Processing Units, memory, disk Input/output, and network Input/output data. It also gives two optimization modes. • Presents an exclusive characteristic of provisioning services, which offer streamlined supervision and considerable storage saving. • It is examined and controlled by the XenCenter which may be installed on one or more windows personal computers or servers, which means there is no load on the XenServer host. • Provides an excellent free virtualization suite compared to other servers and has top performance for Windows and Linux OS. View full review »

The free software includes the advanced features, like migration of virtual machines from one host to another without interrupting the services, and active directory integration. Xen hypervisor is open source. Xen hypervisor is installed on bare metal and provides high performance. Real time performance monitoring Hot swappable disks and NICs Unlimited Virtual machines, Memory Management Console Virtual Machine template View full review »

XenServer Free Virtualization Platform is one of the most full-featured free systems available. It's main advantage over the free VMware ESXi hypervisor is that the management applications is Windows-based and free for download. This for me is the main reason why we have adopted it and in production use for the last three (3) years.Overall, XenServer Free edition is easy to install and configure. It's dialogues are straight-forward and the Windows-based management application interface is also very effective. It gets the job done in a visual way and is really a great help for novice users of hypervisor systems. View full review »

Citrix Hypervisor does a great job overall, such as the virtualization of the host. It's very easy to manage the virtual machine, to create, and configure high availability.

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