Xen, XenServer, and XAPI: What's the Difference?
summary
Defines three layers clearly: Xen hypervisor is the open‑source kernel‑level VM monitor under the Linux Foundation; XenServer 6.2 is a Citrix‑packaged distro that bundles a Linux kernel, PV drivers, storage/network stacks and a GUI and is now free and being open‑sourced; XAPI / zappy is the higher‑level management stack that performs clustering, HA failover, VM orchestration and exposes the XE CLI. XCP is historical packaging now converged into XenServer.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:20About the Speakers...
- 0:57The Problem: Everyone knows What Xen Is...
- 2:01What is the Xen Project?
- 3:09Xen Project: A Short History
- 4:21The Xen Project Subproject Teams
- 5:49Xen Hypervisor: The Crux of the Xen Project
- 8:22Xen Project Corporate Members
- 10:05Xen Project Mascot
- 11:03If That's Xen, What is XenServer?
- 13:21XenServer - a brief history
- 18:49Citrix XenServer
- 20:31What is XCP?
- 22:59Question: Xen, XenServer, or XAPI?
- 25:04Answer: Xen (xl and command line utility)
- 25:39Answer: Trick Question!
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