What advice do you have for others considering Citrix Hypervisor?

We are currently working on a policy within our organization to identify areas where we can optimize resources. For instance, in troubleshooting, we get repeated calls from certain areas. Suppose we can automate tasks like upgrades, monitoring of IT infrastructure, and monitoring of logs and security infrastructure. In that case, we aim to integrate AI into these areas so that repetitive tasks can be managed by AI or similar solutions. When I look at backup solutions like Commvault, I see that these companies support Citrix Hypervisor. However, a limited number of software companies or solution providers in IT directly integrate with Citrix Hypervisor. If that ecosystem can be expanded, it would help us increase our installed base on Citrix Hypervisor. VMware has changed its policy and is not providing certain licensing to enterprise customers. So, in that case, customers have to buy the entire package, even if they only want the Hypervisor. Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor are very good solutions for those cases. If you have a test and development system or a production system, or if you want to deploy a disaster recovery setup cost-effectively and with no complexity in various integrations, Citrix Hypervisor can be the best choice. I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. My advice would be to definitely consider Citrix Hypervisor. You can also consider: * Nutanix Hypervisor: We've recently started exploring Nutanix as well. * Microsoft Hyper-V: A solid choice, particularly if you're already in a Microsoft environment. * VMware vSphere: While very capable, it's among the more expensive options.

I work on services and get good money on this, but Citrix or the other hypervisors are just black boxes for me. They're not making me money. Citrix just sells licenses and cloud products, while my money is in programming, business processing, and so on. Citrix is a stable platform and very good, but I have to look to the future, so I would say that the next platform for me would not be Citrix. If anyone plans to choose Citrix Hypervisor, it is a good choice if they need a stable platform. The performance is good, and everything is fine, but technological development is the problem. Citrix is behind, and it's dangerous to invest in a technology that is behind. All the virtual machines running on the systems will need something. Look at Windows 11, for example. They need special hardware simulations to run on virtual machines because they expect some chips. I don't know if Citrix is developing enough in that direction. Looking at just the technical parts, the ability, and performance, I rate Citrix Hypervisor an eight out of ten. However, if you look for development and what is coming up in the future, I rate Citrix Hypervisor a five out of ten.

My problem with Hypervisor is its weak service. We formerly had SAN Desktop, and I could install as many SAN Desktop and server licenses as needed to make them work without cost. It is not cheap at the moment, but the prices are low. Now I have to look for an alternative, but I have to look for the prices first and to make a budget. I am looking for different products, but the alternative must be from VMware. The decision was made two years ago, and we have to make it work this year or next year latest. We changed to VMware because our boss says it is all in the GUI, but during the implementation of the three first farms, we had an external technician, and most of his work was on the command line interface. It looks a little better, but if you have problems or you need to customize it, it's always on the CLI. I am a real Citrix fan, but that opinion is not important at this time. If you can find someone who provides support, it's a good experience. We might not have always reached our targets or found a solution, but customer support has always made time for us and given us good tips. I have handled problems by printing out all the documentation, which has helped me through eleven years of using the solution. Citrix Hypervisor needs to be easier to update and upgrade and be reversible if something goes wrong. It's of no use if you have a system that's not ready or does not work. We need an update that starts and runs. And if it does not work for any reason, it should be able to be reverted to a point before, especially if there are simple failures, like losing metadata, because it is a lot of work to reconstruct it from nothing. The simple updating and maintenance are better than today. It's a really good product. If it were up to me, we would still use it and use it in the future. Overall, I rate the product an eight or nine out of ten.

I'm a just a user. I'd advise people to get as much information as possible before implementing it. It's a good idea to consult specialists in the field and to look at your budget and the duration of the implementation. It will help you make the right decision before jumping in. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I'm an end-user. I'd advise potential new users to try the solution for themselves. It can do a lot of things. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I give the solution nine out of ten. I recommend the solution. I suggest that anyone interested in using the solution should have other backup solutions set up alongside it.

I rate Citrix Hypervisor 10 out of 10. It's working fine.

I provide Citrix Hypervisor to customers. My company has many customers for Citrix Hypervisor, particularly more than ten customers. The product is good, but my company is slowly ruling it out. Customers are being moved to another solution because Citrix Hypervisor clusters need external storage and people nowadays are eliminating that type of technology. I'm recommending Citrix Hypervisor to others looking into implementing it, specifically if they already have licensed client virtualization solutions such as Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop, because they could get Citrix Hypervisor for free. They could save on the cost of paying additional for hypervisors. Similarly, they could also save on cost if they get Microsoft hypervisors. I'm rating Citrix Hypervisor nine out of ten.

Citrix Hypervisor is a very good solution and it really fits a lot of environments. Everybody considers VMware or Hyper-V from Microsoft as the main solution, but everybody should consider Citrix Hypervisor for their use case. I rate Citrix Hypervisor a nine out of ten. There are some points to improve, but it's a really good solution.

Citrix is an excellent tool, we don't have any issues or complaints about it. I would rate this solution as ten out of ten.

I rate Citrix Hypervisor nine out of 10. It's easy to deploy and cost-effective. And the support, whether the vendor support or even third party support, it's readily available. So, the person should have the rest of mind in deploying this solution.

I rate Citrix Hypervisor an eight out of ten.

We are service providers.We are implementers and sometimes we do the plans of the implementation. In this company, we mostly have on-premise solutions, such as hypervisors. For example, the Microsoft Hypervisors, Citrix Hypervisors, et cetera. Here in the company, we don't use exactly cloud solutions, or not entirely cloud. We use many hybrid solutions. We have a Citrix Orchestrator inside our infrastructure. I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

I highly recommend this solution, especially if cost is an issue. All the features; the security, scalability and the graph features are really good. I rate this solution a nine out of 10.

I would recommend this solution for user endpoints or desktops. I would rate Citrix Hypervisor an eight out of ten.

We are a reseller. This may be the best solution on the market for these purposes. We've been very happy with it so far. I'd rate the solution for nine out of ten.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

I would definitely suggest that you do a trade study with other Hypervisors available. I would rate Citrix Hypervisor a six out of ten.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. As of now, in this COVID-19 paramedic situation, it's very remote-friendly product. It's great for IT and business processes if teams are planning to work from home remotely. This platform is quite good, in terms of publicity planning, remote connectivity, product flexibility, and user demands. Companies that want that kind of flexibility and freedom should explore this tool. It's quite useful.

We are rebuilding our whole news infrastructure. We stopped using the solution for some things, but we will use it once we are finished with what we are currently building. We're using a hybrid deployment model. We're also a Citrix partner. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. I really like the solution. It works well.

My advice to others would be that there is no one golden bullet when choosing a virtualization platform. It depends on the careful planning of what kind of service you plan to provide to your users. Ask questions like: What is running on those systems? What platforms? What are your minimum demands? There's something else that's fairly important because the virtualization market is rapidly shifting towards a total overhaul. And efforts are being made on the Linux site to run armed and risk solutions in the data center. So I hope that XenServer will adapt to that too. This solution has special niche cases where it doesn't work as you planned. But in general, I am very happy with the server. I will give it a rating of nine out of ten.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate XenServer as an eight for the product. For the pricing, I would rate it a five.

We use the free version, not the commercial version of the solution. We use the on-premises deployment model. I would recommend the solution. I was looking for a solution that works well on a small server, and this solution works very well for me. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use the private cloud deployment model. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It depends on what an organization requires, but I would recommend the solution.

We're using the on-premises deployment model. I would advise others to only to use it with functionality where the high availability is available through other mechanisms, like Citrix, and not to use the features from the product itself. I'd rate the solution four out of ten.

I think the biggest issue that I've seen that scares off a lot of potential customers is that they think it is complicated to set up. There are not many people who have deployed the product compared to other products. I think new clients should start small and gain confidence. There is no harm in having a mixed environment where they can at least try it out. If they like it they can continue to roll out the deployment. For us, the attraction has been that the licensing is straight forward. You don't have to think about what it will cost for add on features. It's really straightforward in that you pay for the number of CPU cores you have and that is if you want Technical Support. It is very easy for us to predict our costs. With other products, it is really difficult to know how much it's going to cost from year-to-year. With this product, we are able to say for sure what the cost will be. On a scale from one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best, I would rate this product as a nine. It is not a ten only because I don't have an easy way to do replication and backup. We had to learn to use the command line just to do that. But other than that, it's a very stable product. We have never had trouble, in addition, the hypervisor has a very small footprint on the host.

We're using the on-premises deployment model. I'd generally recommend that if someone is considering using this solution that they look into other options first. I'd rate the solution six out of ten.

Version eight of this solution is complete. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate XenServer as an eight. There are some problems, but it is also not the full release version.

I really like this solution, but it is not widely known. I'm really surprised that more people don't know about it. I find that it suits our needs pretty well. Considering what I am getting for the cost I would rate this solution a ten out of ten. There are more powerful solutions out there, but they're very costly. If I were paying for the support then I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Test, Test, Test as with any product, make sure it will accomplish what you expect. Citrix XenServer is not marketed out there so most of the people, I talk to, only are aware of VMWare and Hyper-V. XenServer fits right in the middle (in my opinion) of those two products.