Sanbolic Offers Improvements for Citrix Environments

A new version of Sanbolic's Melio 2010 Data Center suite claims to have new improvements for Citrix environments, particularly in the areas of provisioning, scalability, high availability and data protection. According to this InfoStor report, Melio 2010 Data Center now provides high availability for Citrix Provisioning Server (PVS), which prevents downtime of virtual machines (VMs) hosting virtual desktops and servers, and increases scalability.

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"For example, Melio 2010 Data Center provides high availability for Citrix Provisioning Server (PVS), which prevents downtime of virtual machines (VMs) hosting virtual desktops and servers, and increases scalability, according to Momchil Michailov, Sanbolic's CEO. (Dynamic provisioning is a feature in the Platinum editions of XenServer and XenApp, as well as the Enterprise and Platinum editions of XenDesktop.)

"Sanbolic's software allows physical or virtual Provisioning Servers to share concurrent block-level access to SAN storage containing PVS datastores, avoiding the locking contention issues incurred by CIFS and NFS. Because the Provisioning Servers access the same virtual workloads on a Melio volume, devices hosting virtual desktops or XenApp Servers can failover between Provisioning Servers, which minimizes downtime, according to Michailov."

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