| Features | Xen Cloud Platform | XenServer Free | XenServer Advanced | XenServer Enterprise | XenServer Platinum |
| Cost/Licensing | Free/Open Source (Multiple Licenses 1) | Free/Citrix EULA | Paid/Citrix EULA | ||
| XenServer hypervisor | X | X | X | X | X |
| IntelliCache | X | X | X | X | X |
| Resilient distributed management architecture | X | X | X | X | X |
| VM disk snapshot and revert | X | X | X | X | X |
| XenCenter management | X | X | X | X | X |
| Conversion tools | X | X | X | X | X |
| XenMotion® live Migration | X | X | X | X | X |
| Heterogeneous pools | X | X | X | X | |
| Dynamic Memory Control | X | X | X | X | |
| Performance alerting and reporting | X | X | X | X | |
| Distributed virtual switching management tool | X | X | X | ||
| High availability | X | X | X | ||
| Automated VM protection and recovery | X | X 3 | X 3 | X | |
| Host power management | X | X | X | ||
| Live memory snapshot and revert | X | X | X | ||
| Role-based administration | X | X | X | ||
| Dynamic workload balancing | X | X | |||
| Provisioning services (virtual) | X | X | |||
| StorageLink | X | X | |||
| Web self-service with delegated admin | X 2 | X | X | ||
| Site recovery | X | X | |||
| Lab manager with self-service portal | X | ||||
| Provisioning services (physical) | X | ||||
XenServer features taken from the XenServer Editions page
| [1] LGPL, GPL, Q Public License v1 |
| [2] works flawless using original Virtual Appliance from Citrix (tested: XCP 1.5beta (1.4.90) and XenServer-wss-1.1.1.xva) |
| [3] Automated VM protection and recovery is only available for the Advanced and Enterprise editions in the 6.0 release and later. |
