System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook

Managing Citrix^® XenServer^® hosts and pools

Using VMM, you can deploy and manage Citrix XenServer hosts and pools (clusters). VMM manages XenServer hosts directly.

You can perform functions such as discovery, creation, management, storage, and deployment of VMs and services on XenServer hosts and pools.

You can also make XenServer resources available to private cloud deployments using the VMM console or PowerShell.

The following Xen features are supported by VMM:

• Standalone XenServer hosts and pools (clusters).
• VM placement based on host ratings when creating, deploying, and migrating XenServer VMs.
• The deployment of VMM services to XenServer hosts.
• XenServer resources, which can be made available to a private cloud when creating it from host groups ...