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What is StorageLink?

Citrix StorageLink™ technology lets your virtual server infrastructures fully leverage all the resources and functionality of existing storage systems. StorageLink supports third party storage architectures and delivers deep integration with leading storage platforms.

Benefits of StorageLink

  • Improved Management of Storage Fabric and Arrays:
    Traditionally, fabrics and arrays are managed with their own set of proprietary UIs.
    StorageLink™ provides easy to use UI wizards to configure and manage your SAN fabric and arrays.
  • Tight Integration with native features of Storage Arrays:
    StorageLink™ “talks the language” of the storage array and exposes the native feature set in the storage array to the Virtualization administrator. Examples of these features are thin provisioning, fast clones, fast snapshots etc.
  • Improved VM Lifecycle Management:
    StorageLink™ allows the administrator to define hardware and storage profiles for VMs. Storage profiles can then be linked to storage volumes (LUNs) in storage arrays.
    The combination of hardware and storage profiles allows administrators to define golden images to enable subsequent rapid creation of complex workloads leveraging the snapshot and clone capabilities of storage arrays.

       

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Citrix Ready Open Storage Program

The new Citrix Ready Open Storage Program for storage partners. Leveraging StorageLink tm , part of the new Citrix Essentials™ for XenServer™ and Hyper-V™ products that simplifies the integration of server virtualization and storage solutions, enabling customers to maintain a single management process.
The Citrix Ready Open Storage Program, as part of the Citrix Ready Program, ensures that qualified storage solutions correctly and properly integrate with Citrix StorageLink. This provides users with a broad set of fully-tested, qualified solutions to address their storage requirements. Storage partners can leverage the standards-based StorageLink product to fully enable the broad feature set of their storage products for customers.

Citrix Ready Open Storage Partners

View Citrix Ready products for StorageLink

Storage Storage Virtualization Backup/DR SAN Infrastructure
Compellent ** Datacore ** CA Brocade
Dell ** Falconstor Acronis Emulex
Hitachi Data Systems Microsoft ** Commvault QLogic
HP ** Virsto Inmage  
LSI   PHDVirtual  
NetApp **   Steeleye **  
Pillar Data Systems**   Symantec  
RELDATA **   Vizioncore  
Xiotech      
    • denotes partners listed om Citrix Ready catalog

Recent Blog Posts


StorageLink
StorageLink and VMware RDM
Go Deep at Synergy with “Ask the Experts”
StorageLink – Essentials for Hyper-V Deep Dive Webinar
StorageLink in Essentials for Hyper-V

Featured Industry News



citrix storagelink – Google News

(citrix storagelink – Google News )
Citrix Systems Introduces Citrix Ready Open Storage Program – Trading Markets (press release)
Citrix fills gap with XenServer Active Directory support – SearchServerVirtualization.com
Recent announcements from: – Infostor magazine
Citrix Makes XenServer 5.5 Beta Available – DABCC.com
Citrix puts XenApp, XenDesktop in the cloud – ITWorld Canada
Citrix embraces Apple with iPhone virtualization, app store – The Industry Standard
思杰扩展虚拟化管理能力-拓展云迁移 – 硅谷动力
Du nouveau pour Citrix – Wndows ITPro
시트릭스, 시트릭스 레디 오픈 스토리지 프로그램 발표 – YTN
Citrix baut Cloud- und Virtualisierungsangebot aus – LANline

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  StorageLink™ provides easy to use UI wizards to configure and manage your SAN fabric and arrays.
   
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  StorageLink™ "talks the language" of the storage array and exposes the native feature set in the storage array to the Virtualization administrator. Examples of these features are thin provisioning, fast clones, fast snapshots etc.
   
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  StorageLink™ allows the administrator to define hardware and storage profiles for VMs. Storage profiles can then be linked to storage volumes (LUNs) in storage arrays.
  The combination of hardware and storage profiles allows administrators to define golden images to enable subsequent rapid creation of complex workloads leveraging the snapshot and clone capabilities of storage arrays.
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  The Citrix Ready Open Storage Program, as part of the Citrix Ready Program, ensures that qualified storage solutions correctly and properly integrate with Citrix StorageLink. This provides users with a broad set of fully-tested, qualified solutions to address their storage requirements. Storage partners can leverage the standards-based StorageLink product to fully enable the broad feature set of their storage products for customers.
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  | LSI | | PHDVirtual | |
  | NetApp ** | | Steeleye ** | |
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