Citrix has released a technical preview of XenServer codenamed Creedence the next major version of XenServer, which is now at version 6.2. When released this version will probably be version 6.5 or 7. Citrix XenServer is based on the XenServer code from the XenServer open source project. The technical preview is binary compatible with the Alpha 4 release of XenServer.
The Creedence version provides the following new features:
- 64 bit dom0
- Linux 3.10 kernel
- Open virtual switch 2.1.1
- Boot storm handling improvements by using read caching
- Read caching for file based SRs
- TRIM and UNMAP for better storage reclaim
- 32 bit to 64 bit VM migration
- Storage migration from XenServer 6.2 and prior
- SLES 11 SP3 support
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS support
