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 With those dedicated servers, you have the opportunity to use a "ready made" installation template that will setup your server in a **Citrix XenServer 6.5 (64bits)** or **Citrix XenServer 7.0.0 (BETA) (no SoftRAID) (64bits)** configuration.
-It's outside of the scope of this article to explain how to install those configurations on your dedicated server, and we'll assume here that you've already managed to have a running Xen Server. In our example we'll be operating on a Citrix XenServer 6.5 (64bits) configuration...
+It's outside the scope of this article to explain how to install those configurations on your dedicated server, and we'll assume here that you've already managed to have a running Xen Server. In our example we'll be operating on a Citrix XenServer 6.5 (64bits) configuration...
+===== Management Tools =====
+The easiest way to jump start using your Xen Server is to use a management tool.
+==== XenCenter and OpenXenManager ====
+When it comes to Xen GUI applications, there are roughly only two choices available:
+  * Install XenCenter (Windows only), by typing your Xen Server IP into a Web Browser, you'll see a link to download the XenCenterSetup.exe
+  * Install [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxenmanager/|OpenXenManager]], which is a (python) multiplatform implementation of XenCenter. To install OpenXenManager on Debian or Ubuntu, you can follow [[http://idroot.net/linux/install-openxenmanager-ubuntu-16-04-lts/|this tutorial]].
+==== Xen Orchestra [Appliance] XO[A] ====
+=== Base OS ===
+We'll need a base OS as a host for our XO deployment, you can delve into the details of [[http://wiki.strategicz.com/vhyper/doku.php?id=vms:debian|configuring a Debian base template]], or you can use this link to [[http://files.tacticz.com/data/public/245594bd79ae9aba.php?dl=true|download a pre-configured Debian 8.9 template xva]] that can be immediately imported into your Xen Server (please note that this appliance needs to be configured to fit your configuration, mainly at the network level)...
+We'll be using this Debian 8.9 template in the following example.
+We could use the CLI to execute all the commands required, but since this tutorial is aimed at keeping things simple we'll introduce a few GUI applications that will greatly ease access and manipulation of our Xen Server.