Virtualization Daily

Citrix, the recent acquirer of XenSource, has now announced the roll out of evaluation virtual appliances for Citrix Presentation Server.

The new Citrix Evaluation Virtual Appliance (EVA) is a preconfigured, ready-to-go, virtual machine system for evaluating Presentation Server Enterprise 4.5 and Platinum Edition 4.5. The EVA enables you to download a completely configured Presentation Server environment and have it up and running in as little as 10 minutes after download. This new, simplified evaluation method enables you to interact with the Citrix management interface, and evaluate Citrix’s application delivery infrastructure from both administrative and end-user perspectives. You have 30 days to evaluate Presentation Server with your own applications and, because you don’t need additional server hardware or rack space in the data center, the evaluation process can be done quickly, with minimal impact to regular operations.

These are Microsoft VHD images for use with Microsoft Virtual Server and embed an evaluation version of Windows. No Xen support included.