HP Proliant Virtual console - integrated Citrix Xensever

by Eddy on

HP Proliant Virtual console is an easy to use local Graphical user interface (GUI) console for creating and managing virtual machines on HP proliant servers. HP Proliant virtual console uses light weight Citrix Xenserver virtualization technology jointly developed by HP and Cirtix.The HP integrated Citrix XenServer offering put powerful virtulization capabilities right into the HP proliant servers. I have used HP virtualization on HP Itanium server but using embedded Citrix Xenserver virtualization on proliant servers is really impressive.

HP is also shipping integrated VMware ESX 3i embedded on their proliant servers but Citrix went one step ahead by offering GUI based console into their virtualization.

In embedded VMware ESX 3i there is no GUI available to manage the server locally, you have to setup ESX 3i in text mode first then you can use remote VMware infrastructure client to create and manage virtual machines. Using the new ProLiant Virtual Console you’ll be able to manage your virtual server at both the local console, and using iLO remotely. The HP HPHProLiant Virtual Console, which ships with HP integrated Citrix XenServer configurations, gives you access to as many as nine virtual machines at once. You can watch HP ProLiant iVirtualization (intergrated virtualization) online demo.

Citrix XenServer is a high performance virtualization solution designed for efficient support of Windows and Linux virtual machines. As part of ProLiant iVirtualization, HP has tightly integrated Citrix XenServer into ProLiant platforms to enable faster installation, configuration, and virtual machine management. The product set features the HP ProLiant Virtual Console (PVC), a simple to use GUI interface to setup and manage virtual machines on individual servers.