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Mastering NetScaler VPX

By : Marius Sandbu, Andy Paul
Book Image

Mastering NetScaler VPX

By: Marius Sandbu, Andy Paul

Overview of this book

Citrix NetScaler is one of the best Application Delivery Controller products in the world. The Application Delivery Controllers are commonly used for load balancing purposes, to optimize traffic, and to perform extra security settings. This book will give you an insight into all the available features that the Citrix NetScaler appliance has to offer. The book will start with the commonly used NetScaler VPX features, such as load balancing and NetScaler Gateway functionality. Next, we cover features such as Responder, Rewrite, and the AppExpert templates, and how to configure these features. After that, you will learn more about the other available Citrix technologies that can interact with Citrix NetScaler. We also cover troubleshooting, optimizing traffic, caching, performing protection using Application Firewall, and denying HTTP DDoS attacks for web services. Finally, we will demonstrate the different configuration principles real-world Citrix NetScaler deployment scenarios.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering NetScaler VPX™
Notice
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Configuring the Standard Features of NetScaler®

Welcome to the first chapter of this book. Throughout the course of this book, we will cover how to master Citrix NetScaler. This chapter will cover the most commonly used features of Citrix NetScaler.

Throughout this book, we will be focusing mostly on how to use the most common features of Citrix NetScaler. These features make Citrix NetScaler one of the best Application Delivery Controller (ADC). The features will be available depending on the installed license. So, to sum it up, here's what we will cover throughout this chapter:

  • Load balancing

  • The NetScaler Gateway

  • StoreFront integration

  • Authentication