Citrix Hypervisor Valuable Features

MS
System Administrator at KREBS+KIEFER

Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use.

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Kim Gudiksen - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

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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Bunmi Sadiq - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Syscodes Communications Ltd

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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Buyer's Guide
Citrix Hypervisor
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Citrix Hypervisor. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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RV
Vice President (Technology) at Shaligram Infotech LLP

The most valuable feature is its stability.

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CB
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage.

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Achim Heisler - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at A-H-S Computer

Citrix is easy to use and is stable.

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Siddhesh Sawant - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Customer Support Engineer at Magnamious Systems Pvt. Ltd.

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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Bunmi Sadiq - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Syscodes Communications Ltd

It's easy to migrate VMs using Hypervisor.

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Bunmi Sadiq - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Syscodes Communications Ltd

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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DW
Senior Manager of Engineering at Mechanics Bank

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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DS
Manager IT at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

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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ME
Enterprise Server and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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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AM
Chief Operating Officer at CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN ZAMBIA

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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MR
Information Technology Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

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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MB
Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

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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WJ
Works at State of Alabama, Office of Information Technology

The support for this solution is phenomenal.

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LB
CEO at IMART OFFICE CONSULTANTS

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

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JJ
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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

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WV
Works at a marketing services firm with 201-500 employees

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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it_user358551 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Network Operations at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Cost effective
  • Performance
  • Overall simplicity
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PV
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

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

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German Infante - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect Data Center Servers and Storage at Tecnologia informatica

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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KP
Lead Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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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it_user2652 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

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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it_user331830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at PTSO

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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it_user3039 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a cloud provider with 51-200 employees

High-availability options in a cluster are good.

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it_user1266 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a local government with 51-200 employees
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 »
AR
Works at techopen.net.do

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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JS
Associate designer

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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OM
System Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

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

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CC
Network Engineeer at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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MF
Manager

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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MR
Information Technology Specialist at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

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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JK
System Administrator at UM LUBLIN

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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MP
Senior Site Infrastructure Engineer at Kurungsiku
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 »
EM
Diretor de serviços at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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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FC
IT Manager at a legal firm with 11-50 employees

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

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VR
Virtual Infrastructure Admin at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The high availability facility.

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it_user1078263 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The price is the solution's most valuable feature.

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it_user3756 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Much cheaper than other major Hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V). Easy to install and use at the beginning. View full review »
it_user1125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a retailer with 51-200 employees
• 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 »
MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing

We find there are good central maintenance and management panels.

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it_user1020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Center at a tech company with 51-200 employees
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 »
DB
System Engineer & IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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

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it_user1104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees
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 »
Buyer's Guide
Citrix Hypervisor
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Citrix Hypervisor. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.