XenServer Reviews & Product Details

This allows organizations to provide users with self-service access to their applications and services -- all with a common user interface, regardless of the endpoint device hardware, OS or form factor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't particularly dislike this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's free and easy to implement, before putting my Xenserver to work I didn't really have experience with bare-metal virtualization, always used hosted hypervisors. Learning curve has been painless so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really like the way you have to use DDK to compile drivers that aren't included on Xenserver's custom Kernel, it may be my lack of experience at this moment, it's my only complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This hypervisor offers free resources that are in other paid hypervisors, like live migration, live storage migration, openvswitch with vxlans. It is compatible with cloud orchestrators like CloudStack and OpenStack. It supports paravirtualization, but currently HVM guests OS is better because of the current CPU that have virtualization support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The snapshots management still presents problems, especially in environments with many virtual machines. The virtual memory management is still weak compared with other hypervisors. This software does not have a central server for host management. XenCenter is not good, it demands too much memory and CPU to execute simple tasks with many VMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frequent updates and improvements. Doesn’t have too many downtimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow at times. When working in an ER we need things to move a bit faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the feature-set of XenServer, especially during migration/upgrade times! I especially love that mdraid is now supported out of the box with XenServer 7, allowing me to quickly and easily setup small XenServer hosts for hosting VMs of particular services that my clients need.

I started with XenServer for a client after a long upgrade from bare-metal CentOS 5 to 6 upgrade, where I migrated to a couple of VMs. The CentOS 5 machine was starting to age, and becoming more costly to maintain, and suggested that we buy a server for running XenServer on. I've ran 6,6.2,6.5 and now 7, and have been very pleased. Being able to migrate Virtual Machines makes upgrades extremely painless, and being able to snapshot VMs is a real plus. Going from a licensed model to a license-free model (there are very important features available with the licensing, but I don't have a need for those features). Overall, I've been very pleased with XenServer and continue to use them for my clients. Adding GUI Updates to XenServer 7 was a real blessing, as it's much easier to perform updates via XenCenter than curl/ssh and xe commands was in 6/6.2. I also feel that management of servers and actions like reboot/poweron is something my client should be able to do themselves, and I really like the fact that XenCenter is easy for them to learn and use. I've used the original Xen before, and I wouldn't be able to teach that to my clients in a way that would make them comfortable enough to use. Being based on CentOS is a bonus too, as I can install ancillary reporting/alarming packages right from the command line! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do wish features such as auto-power-on and automatic snapshots were still available and supported. I do know auto power-on is available, but seems to interfere with the update process and doesn't feel like it's something that Xen wants supported.

I do wish a web interface was still something that Citrix supported, as firing up XenCenter over a VPN is sometimes tedious, although having SSH is also a helpful way to managing xenserver hosts. Sometimes the information provided in the console isn't as immediately informative as warning indicators is in XenCenter, which is why I often lean toward to using that, as I get more information at-a-glance.

I wish there was an easier way of setting up a local ISO repository from XenCenter, but it's not too difficult to cut some space out of LVM and setting up a local NFS ISO SR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast deployment, low HW requirements, easy to setup, configure and support. Doesn't require additional managers deployed, can be managed from native console and provides virtual machine, storage migration and HA. Hypervisor supports level 1 virtualization. Works better with storage in terms of iSCSI connections and returns free space if compare with VMWare on storage which doesn't non-support additional features. Works more stable and faster than Hyper-V. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

provides less options in comparison with VmWare products. Requires Citrix licensed specialists for support and maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support of multiple applications in a secure environment. Very useful solution in an office environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Significant issues with remote access and in particular very limited web browsing capabilities in the version used by our company. As a frequent traveller it's the single biggest frustration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a free download by Citrix and deploying the product was fairly easy. There are a lot of instructions and forum regarding this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were a lot of bugs and most of the time they were known bugs. You would think Citrix would do something about this but they would just post it on their forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Xenserver was one of the first dedicated Virtual host server and stayed free with the community edition. The community is friendly and helpful if you have any issues. The server is robust and mature, giving it an advantage in the virtual server market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Xenserver, at the time of when I installed it last, the UI that you use to control the host, wasn't very strong. As the product matured it was improved. But at the time, it wasn't the high point of the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is easy to install and use on workstations once setup on servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

very slow on some systems and usually get a flash player message based on the browser used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.