Move between tiers of storage when a VM is limited by storage capacity.Move a VM from a development to a production environment.Move a VM from cheap, local storage to fast, resilient, array-backed storage.

Live VDI Migration allows system administrators to relocate a VM’s Virtual Disk Image (VDI) without shutting down the VM. Reduce deployment costs by using local storage.įor more information, refer to the XenServer 6.1.0 Virtual Machine User’s Guide and the XenCenter online help.Perform hardware maintenance – for example upgrading standalone XenServer host hardware without VM downtime.

Perform software maintenance – for example upgrading or updating standalone XenServer hosts without VM downtime.Rebalance or move VMs between XenServer pools – for example promoting a VM from a development environment to a production environment.This includes the case where (a) VMs are not located on storage shared between the hosts and (b) hosts are not in the same resource pool. Storage XenMotion allows running VMs to be moved from one host to another. XenServer 6.1.0 includes the following new features and ongoing improvements:

SLB (Source Load Balancing) Bond up to 4 NICs in an active/active configuration.

New Features in this release that caught my attention Citrix Systems announced today the GA release of XenServer 6.1, formerly Project “Tampa” I will be upgrading my lab soon to this release to test these new features which as I can I will be diving into here in more detail.

Windows server vdi with xenserver host