Download XenServer 6.0.2

Citrix enjoys its virtualization environment XenServer released a new version with 6.0.2 as the version number. The virtualization environment is based on Xen and adds tools to expand its capabilities and simplify management. Citrix XenServer is free to use, but can be upgraded with a paid advanced, enterprise or platinum license. This includes options such as ha , dmc, rbac and provisioning services. The overview of the changes for this release is as follows:

Licensing

Important: Utilizing the advanced features in XenServer 6.0.2 requires a Citrix License Server Virtual Appliance (version 11.6.1 or higher) and a XenServer 6.0.2 license. A Citrix License Server Virtual Appliance with a pre-installed XenServer 6.0.2 license is available for download from the Citrix XenServer 6.0.2 Download page. To use an existing Citrix License Server Virtual Appliance, installation of the XenServer 6.0.2 license is required. For information on downloading and installing the Citrix License Server Virtual Appliance, see the Knowledge Base article Citrix License Server Virtual Appliance for XenServer.

• An overview of licensing in XenServer, including required settings, is in the Citrix XenServer 6.0 Installation Guide.
• For information about obtaining license files and installing a license server, see the Licensing Your Product section on Citrix eDocs.

New Features and Improvements Since XenServer 6.0

We are pleased to announce availability of XenServer 6.0.2. This version includes a number of new features and ongoing improvements to XenServer 6.0, including:

• Emergency Network Reset: Network Reset provides a simple mechanism to recover and reset a host’s networking configuration to its original state at fresh installation. This is also useful when you simply want to configure networking on a host from scratch, and helps to recover a host from an incorrectly configured state. Refer to CTX131972 for detailed information.
• Enhanced Guest OS Support. Support for CentOS 5.7 (32/64-bit), CentOS 6.0 (32/64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (32/64-bit), Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7 (32/64-bit). Refer to CTX131973 for virtual memory and disk size limits for these new guests.
• Windows XenServer Tools Improvements. Windows Guests now can make use of either .Net 3.5 or .Net 4.0 when installing XenServer Tools.

Ongoing Improvements

• Disk usage for logging in Dom0, logs now rotated hourly (CP-3137)
• NFS stability (XOP-60)
• VLAN performance improvements when using the OVS (CA-68226)
• Default dom0 interrupt processing capabilities improvements (CA-70552)
• VM-level UDP network performance improvements (CA-72746)
• Xapi responsiveness increased during shutdown of large Virtual Machines (SCTX-507)

Additional Fixes

All updated driver disks for v6.0 have been incorporated into XenServer v6.0.2. In addition, XenServer 6.0.2 also includes the following hotfixes to XenServer 6.0:

• Hotfix XS60E001
• Hotfix XS60E002
• Hotfix XS60E003
• Hotfix XS60E004

The following components have been updated since the release of XenServer 6.0:

• Microsoft System Center Integration Pack v6.0.2
• Workload Balancing v6.0.2
• Web Self Service 1.1.1 Virtual Appliance.

XenServer Virtual Appliances

The following XenServer virtual appliances are available for download from the Citrix XenServer 6.0 Download page:

• Demo Linux Virtual Appliance
• Workload Balancing Virtual Appliance
• vSwitch Controller Virtual Appliance
• Web Self Service 1.1.1 Virtual Appliance
• Citrix License Server VPX v11.10