It looks like DataCore has followed through on their promises to release a storage Link adapter for XenServer. An official Citrix release notification can be read Here.

So what exactly is StorageLink? Storage Link is a set of technologies that “allows the user to perform storage management tasks directly out of the Citrix StorageLink user interface. It unifies management of virtual machines and DataCore virtual storage into one single console, whether you’re using XenServer or Hyper-V. It offers both FC SAN and iSCSI support.”.

This is a long winded way of Citrix enabling advanced storage manipulation inside of it’s console.  This goes along with the Xen philosophy of relying on vendors to write advanced features instead of writing them into their product. This has been touted by Citrix for a while as a way of optimizing their code for Hypervisor performance while creating a conduit for advanced features to be taken advantage of by ISV’s.

We have yet to implement this feature for any customers but may be compelled to do so soon.  Feedback to follow.

Anyone out there doing this yet?