So, what’s new in XenServer 6.5? A lot of good stuff! All 64-bit Massive performance improvements 50% increase in GPU density The return of the popular Workload Balancing (WLB) appliance Numerous usability enhancements So, let’s talk about some of these performance enhancements. While XenServer has long been known for it’s world-class compute performance, we realized that more and work workloads are now becoming I/O bound. Thus, the team put massive effort into improving the data path through the networking and storage systems. Here are some sample benchmarks comparing the performance of XenServer 6.5 vs. XenServer 6.2 (the last major release). Comparison of XS 6.2 to 6.5 performance Who should be interested in XenServer 6.5? Firstly, anyone who’s using XenServer today will find this a major step up. Upgrade today and see the difference. Who else should be interested? Are you building a cloud? Xen project is the most popul...