While at Summit 08, Citrix had a lot to say about their acquired XenServer line. The company bulked up the XenServer team with 60 new people and were able to add 400 new customers into its camp in Q4. The company's goal is to deliver $50 million in revenue for 2008, and one way they are going to try and do that is to deliver on their next version of XenServer 4.1 (code-named Miami). To that end, the company has While at Summit 08, Citrix had a lot to say about their acquired XenServer line. The company bulked up the XenServer team with 60 new people and were able to add 400 new customers into its camp in Q4. The company’s goal is to deliver $50 million in revenue for 2008, and one way they are going to try and do that is to deliver on their next version of XenServer 4.1 (code-named Miami). To that end, the company has now opened up the beta program to the public. This service pack or dot release enhances the previous v4 product with the following capabilities and improvements: Scalability and Performance: Increased the 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 supportOne nice thing about this beta, there is no license key needed. The key is embedded into the binary, and will last through the beta period without expiring. You can sign up for the Citrix XenServer 4.1 beta, here. Software Development