As a loyal user of xenserver 5.5, i find the product as rock solid and find that vm’s run much faster on the xenserver platform than other platform’s,
I’m not saying that xenserver is the best, as other products Such as Vmware offer many incentives, added functionality and other operating systems, where citrix are still lacking behind,
However this article is based on Xenserver, i find that updates to operating systems are slow with xenserver,
I would like to see Xenserver support Windows 7, and have tools that install on windows 7, and windows 2008 r2, without waiting for the next Xenserver release
Also i think that Ubuntu is quickly becoming one of the most distributed linux os’s i would really like to see it natively supported, and i think many users agree with me,
I remember in the past before xen was owned by citrix we had requested that centos be natively supported and they had done so,
On a positive note, the Active Directory integration, Snapshots and Latest features in the 5.5 edition are most welcome,
Also a Xencenter client for Mac OSX would be very usefull, and the possibilty to backup or export a vm without shutting down the instance would also be a nice feature, i find that the Xencenter
client is also rather limited as most of the time one must go to the cli to enable advanced features.
Till then we Await news on the new Version of Citrix Xenserver when it is announced and the list of new features and added operating systems added.