Thincomputing.net just posted about a new Xenserver Beta. Looking at the new features list it seems things are finally getting up to speed, especially “bonding of NIC’s” is a must have in a enterprise environment. Hope you can also pin the live migration on a specific NIC in this release, but looking at the specs I don’t think it’s possible.
Citrix is pleased to introduce the public beta release of Citrix XenServer 4.1.Citrix XenServer 4.1 is a service pack that enhances the previous v4 release. New capabilities and improvements include:
- Scalability and Performance
- Increased number of simultaneous running VMs
- Enhanced nested page table (NPT) support for modern AMD processors
- VLAN support in Standard Edition
- Improved Citrix Presentation Server performance and maximum number of user sessions
- Reliability and Manageability
- Host NIC bonding for fail-over (configured via CLI)
- Centralized logging
- Configuration of network management interfaces via the CLI
- Update/patch management integrated in XenCenter
- Java bindings for XenAPI in SDK
- Storage
- Initial shared fibre channel storage support (via CLI only)
- Enhanced support for NetApp filers, including snapshot and cloning
- Windows guest Hot disk remove
- ISCSI improvements
- Support for hot-plugging USB storage as a storage repository
- Host System
- Rolling pool upgrade support
- NIC driver updates (e1000, BNX2, TG3)
- Support several 10Gb network adapters (Mellanox/Chelsio)
- Improved hardware support
- Guest Support
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32-bit and CentOS 5 32-bit install from physical CD
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and CentOS 5 x64 guest support
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 x86 and x64 guest support
- Windows Vista x86 guest support