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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

Tuning the network and virtual environment


If we are deploying a NetScaler in a virtual environment it is crucial that we have properly configured the virtual appliance. For instance, it is important that we do not over-allocate vCPU in a virtual environment, since NetScaler mostly uses the CPU to handle all of the network traffic such as SSL traffic, content switching, and so on.

Also it is important that we configure the appliance itself to be placed on a virtual environment that either has cluster functionality or on which we have implemented high-availability such as active/passive or even NetScaler clustering.

We should also have some form of NIC teaming on the host level so that, in the event of NIC failure, the network traffic can still be served.

It is also important that, if we implement host level NIC teaming, we understand how the various types of NIC teaming perform traffic processing. For instance, Microsoft Hyper-V has a form of NIC teaming called switch independent mode that...