XenCenter is our management and monitoring product available for free XenServer. Many XenServer users have very specific and complex systems and requirements and like to choose the tools and products they need for their industry or usage. With our open architecture and vendor neutral policy, we enable customers, partners and suppliers (including competitors) to increase the functionality of XenCenter and XenServer integrated with their own applications.
XenCenter is a platform and the dashboard on which everyone can add specialized components suppliers of their choice, to develop their own custom tools or pick up free tools for our developer community assets; the creation of a custom solution with the added benefit of avoiding vendor lock-in.
It is an approach that can help both large enterprises and SMB customers reduce costs. XenCenter is free and can be used with XenServer free. Rather than paying the costly licensing fees hypervisor to support a generalized management console with features designed to support means users that are not relevant to many customers. Many of our customers choose products more tailored and relevant level 1 specialists develop their own functionality or use of free components from other developers in the community.
We have seen a strong increase in number of customers using XenServer hypervisors alongside other this year. It is an approach that works well for many clients and can greatly reduce the cost of virtualization. open approach XenCenter help these customers because we see more and suppliers to develop products that allow you to use XenCenter to monitor and manage XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp and Netscaler alongside other hypervisors such as vSphere and Hyper-V . Our latest XenServer MasterClass Featured MonitorIT Goliath, a pretty solution where they showed the monitoring and management of XenServer and XenDesktop alongside vSphere hosts.
What has been surprising is the range of products that have integrated with XenCenter and XenServer, offering sophisticated functionality beyond that offered by hypervisor vendors. Eaton is a global technology leader in power management solutions, they have years of expertise in this area because it is their job to heart. Eaton produced a plug-in that allows you to manage and monitor the health and optimizing the energy infrastructure within your deployment using XenCenter. Like many suppliers Eaton plugin is available to check on YouTube.
NetApp is a long term partner of XenServer and a choice of popular storage and confidence for the platform. NetApp recently launched a plug-in for XenCenter storage configuration, the NetApp team used their expertise to their internal technologies to eliminate complex storage administration, making the previously fiddly or time much simpler tasks. Virtual Storage Console (VSC) XenCenter allows users to provision, de-duplicate, resize, and destroy storage depots and to do operations on the storage cloning as tens of thousands of virtual machines almost instantly.
Citrix has long partnered with other specialist providers such as Stratus to provide fault tolerance and high availability features of XenServer and can also be integrated with XenCenter plugin. Stratus offer both software and hardware solutions in this field and cross-hypervisor so it really makes sense for such functionality to be delivered by a third party
There are now XenCenter of plugins for you of:.
- orchestrate complex deduplication, backup and recovery
- capacity plan
- load balancing and automation
I recommend a good google search on YouTube or because there are too many to list!
Some plugins are now available only came about because the end customers said software vendors they wanted a plug-in XenCenter. So if you have the day to day administration tool, you can not do without, it can really pay to suggest software vendors to provide a plug-in, rid your computer of another useless window!
[1945001Appstored'] Apple has prospered because anyone can have a bright idea and share application. It is good that we have so many levels of household names 1 by creating add-ons for XenCenter but it is exciting that we have so many people and small businesses by XenCenter and share plugins. Many system administrators create plugins that automate scripts and tasks and integrating them into the management suite. I really felt up to see the creativity and pure fun some users.Martin is a Citrix employee in another group using XenServer as the end user, it is blogged about his experiences writing a plugin. Martin acceded its VMs via RDP and XenCenter - now it uses XenCenter as a single pane of glass, it is also integrated the popular free tool PuTTY in XenCenter, with step by step instructions
There not that Citrites. XenCenter that were spread in the community, there are others who make their own turbo versions of XenCenter. There are users that integrate the Web console to monitor Netscaler VPX, EdgeSight, Branch Repeater, Access Gateway and many other applications, to make their own simple glazing management solution.
How to develop your own plugin XenCenter
XenCenter is a fun product to develop against. We installed a community site for developers to plug-in where you can find a step by step guide, "Hello World" and code examples to get you started quickly. It also has a great way to start developing an application for XenServer without charge to design your own graphical interface, it is a great learning experience for new developers of higher education, but also as a practical exercise for laboratory university students.
XenCenter and XenServer open architectures go much further, product developers aim to make all the features available to XenCenter accessible. All measurements collected by XenCenter are open and it is developed using our open API, so if XenCenter can do it - you too. If you want to develop your own way to view or change the granularity of metrics, you are free to do so. There is also the landing page and a developer forum where you can discuss your development projects on the APIs, which are available in Python, C, C #, Java and Powershell, and the xe CLI.
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