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Today Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V version 5.5 was officially announced.
As part of the launch, Mark Nijmeijer (Engineering Manager for StorageLink Site Recovery) put together three short videos on the new Site Recovery feature. Site Recovery provides quick and easy DR setup, reliable configuration, non-disruptive testing and fast recovery fopr yopur Microsoft virtualization environment. If you have seen the power of combining Hyper-V On Windows Server 2008 R2 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, check out the preferred Virtualization Disaster Recovery solution.
In this first video, Mark describes how to use Site Recovery's simple controls to setup protection of a Hyper-V virtual machine. He demonstrates how StorageLink, part of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, interfaces with array-based storage replication for remote disaster recovery configuration.
Next, Mark shows how to validate and test Hyper-V disaster recovery configurations using StorageLink Site Recovery.
Finally, Mark demonstrates how easy it is to initiate failover of Hyper-V virtual machines to a disaster recovery site in the event of a site-wide disruption using StorageLink Site Recovery.
Site Recovery as part of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V 5.5 allows you to setup, test and manage disaster recovery services for your Microsoft virtualization environment. This new feature set works with your advanced storage hardware for replication, and provides true disaster recovery on a virtual machine level.
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StorageLink Deep Dive Webinar - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/04/13/StorageLink+-+Essentials+for+Hyper-V+Deep+Dive+Webinar
StorageLink Demo Videos
http://www.citrix.com/ehv
StorageLink Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/02/23/StorageLink+in+Essentials+for+Hyper-V
Provisoning Services Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/03/20/Provisioning+for+Hyper-V+with+Citrix+Essentials
Lab Manager Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/03/19/Essentials+for+Hyper-V+with+Lab+Management
StorageLink Install Install Guide - http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX120789
StorageLink User Guide - http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX120791
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Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V adds new disaster recovery capabilities to Hyper-V with StorageLink Site Recovery technology. Attend this webcast to get an up-close view of the new solution. Product experts from Citrix demonstrate how StorageLink Site Recovery brings you simple disaster recovery controls while tapping powerful, array-based remote replication services to protect your Hyper-V workloads. We also explore how you can use Site Recovery together with Microsoft clustering technologies and Citrix Essentials workflow orchestration tools to build an automated disaster recovery solution for your Hyper-V environment.
Discussion topics include:
- Setting up replication services
- Staging remote virtual machines for disaster recovery testing
- Performing fail-over of virtual machines
Presenters: Jim Schwartz, Virtualization Solutions Marketing Director, Microsoft Corporation, Barry Flanagan, Global Microsoft Alliance Evangelist, Citrix and Mark Nijmeijer - Sr. Manager StorageLink Engineering, Citrix
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Language(s): English.
Product(s): Hyper-V.
Audience(s): IT Generalist.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date:
Wednesday, December 02, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Step by Step Part 1
StorageLink Deep Dive Webinar - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/04/13/StorageLink+-+Essentials+for+Hyper-V+Deep+Dive+Webinar
StorageLink Demo Videos
http://www.citrix.com/ehv
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Tyler Carter, Product Marketing Manager for Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, put together a brief overview presentation of the new features in Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V 5-5. The link below will open a new window to play a flash version of the presentation. There is some animation in the presentation, so I suggest just letting it play all the way through without manually advancing the slides. There is no audio in the presentation.
What's New in Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V 5.5
I uploaded the slide presentation to my SkyDrive account. You can download it here. You can download a 10 page Essentials for Hyper-V whitepaper here.
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http://www.citrix.com/ehvexpress
Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Step by Step Part 1
StorageLink Deep Dive Webinar - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/04/13/StorageLink+-+Essentials+for+Hyper-V+Deep+Dive+Webinar
StorageLink Demo Videos
http://www.citrix.com/ehv
StorageLink Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/02/23/StorageLink+in+Essentials+for+Hyper-V
Provisoning Services Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/03/20/Provisioning+for+Hyper-V+with+Citrix+Essentials
Lab Manager Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/03/19/Essentials+for+Hyper-V+with+Lab+Management
StorageLink Install Install Guide - http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX120789
StorageLink User Guide - http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX120791
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Citrix self-paced online training course CEV-100-2W Getting Started with Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V introduces learners to Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V and provides the knowledge needed to perform basic installation and configuration tasks. The new Site Recovery Manager feature is covered as well.
Through online simulations, students will install and configure key features and explore product capabilities, such as virtual storage management, provisioning services, lifecycle management and workflow studio. This course is available at no cost for a limited time.
To learn more and access this online course, click here.
Express Edition Download
http://www.citrix.com/ehvexpress
Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V Step by Step Part 1
StorageLink Deep Dive Webinar - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/04/13/StorageLink+-+Essentials+for+Hyper-V+Deep+Dive+Webinar
StorageLink Demo Videos
http://www.citrix.com/ehv
StorageLink Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/02/23/StorageLink+in+Essentials+for+Hyper-V
Provisoning Services Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/03/20/Provisioning+for+Hyper-V+with+Citrix+Essentials
Lab Manager Overview - http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2009/03/19/Essentials+for+Hyper-V+with+Lab+Management
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The release of Windows Server 2008 R2 brings many new features to Hyper-V.
Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 includes five core areas of improvement for creating dynamic virtual data centers:
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Increased availability for virtualized data centers
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Improved management of virtualized data centers
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Increased Performance and Hardware Support for Hyper-V Virtual Machines
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Improved Virtual Networking Performance
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A simplified method for physical and virtual computer deployments by using .vhd files
A new release of Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 also means that a new of release of Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V is coming.
Citrix just made the beta version of Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V available for download.
Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V, otherwise known as the 'R2' release of Citrix Essentials, supports the latest Hyper-V and System Center enhancements now available in Windows Server 2008 R2 (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-main.aspx ). In addition to supporting R2, Citrix Essentials adds new disaster recovery capabilities to Hyper-V with StorageLink Site Recovery.
Here's a glimpse of some of the new goodies available in Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Microsoft Hyper-V:
Site Recovery
Why put a bunch of idle physical hardware at remote recovery sites when you can accomplish your DR objectives with virtualized servers using Hyper-V? Server virtualization with Hyper-V gives your IT organization an extremely cost-effective approach to disaster recovery, while the new Site Recovery capabilities included with Citrix Essentials gives you the control you need to implement, manage, and test your DR solution.
Site Recovery uses StorageLink technology (http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2009/07/20/Essentials+for+HyperV+-+StorageLink+Step+by+Step+Part+1 ) to unlock underlying storage array replication services, giving you the toolset you need to enable remote fail-over strategies for their Hyper-V environments. You can use StorageLink Site Recovery to set up native storage remote mirroring services, then test the recoverability of virtual infrastructure at remote sites through the staging capabilities included with Site Recovery. Instant clones of recovery VMs can be created and placed in isolated networks where you can test recovery without impacting ongoing data replication or access to critical Hyper-V infrastructure.
Additionally, you can use workflow orchestration tools in Citrix Essentials and Windows Server 2008 Clustering to build out a completely automated DR solution for your Hyper-V infrastructure.
R2 Integration
This release of Citrix Essentials coincides with the R2 release of Windows Server 2008 to ensure you can take full advantage of advanced management and automation included with Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V. It supports the latest Windows Server® technologies, including the R2 releases of Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Citrix Essentials integration with the R2 release of Hyper-V and System Center includes the simplified setup and administration of shared storage assets required for Microsoft Failover Clustering and Live Migration.
Windows 7 Support
Most IT organizations will spend the coming months testing Windows 7 in their labs as they prepare to roll it out to their users. Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V includes updates to its lab management capabilities, including support for Windows 7. Automated lab management in Citrix Essentials automates the setup and tear-down of unique workload configurations, including builds of Windows 7, using self-service template libraries for rapid provisioning and enables cross-team collaboration on common virtual environments. With automated lab management, organizations can accelerate the process of moving workloads through development and testing, and into the live production environment, while reducing virtual machine sprawl and minimizing setup or configuration errors and delays.
Grab the beta and go for a test drive.
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