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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

CloudBridge™


Citrix CloudBridge accelerates application delivery across public and private cloud networks, and provides enterprises with the unique ability to support WAN virtualization. Combined with visibility into application performance, CloudBridge allows enterprises to evolve toward software-defined WANs for hybrid networking.

Citrix CloudBridge can be a virtual or a physical appliance. To get optimization working we need a datacenter on the Citrix CloudBridge appliance and also on the branch office of Citrix CloudBridge, because the traffic that was optimized also needs to be deoptimized. If an appliance on the branch office isn't feasible, we could install the Citrix CloudBridge Plug-in on the end user device. This plug-in is only available for Microsoft Windows endpoints. This solution can reduce the cost of delivering mobile workspaces to local branches by up to 80 percent, while realizing virtually 100 percent availability for high-priority applications.

Citrix CloudBridge has a...