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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

Admin partitions


Admin partitions is one of the new features in NetScaler; it allows an appliance to be partitioned into logical entities called admin partitions, where each partition can be configured and used as a separate NetScaler appliance; we can then allow superusers to access and configure their own partition.

This allows for separated partitions to, for instance, Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and web application owners, and so on.

Each partition has its own file structure where it stores configuration files for that partition, located under /nsconfig/partitions/<partitionName>. SSL certificates are stored under /var/partitions/<partitionName>/netscaler/ssl.

Also each partition has its own set of resources that is defined during setup.

Note

There are still some limits on what features that can be configured in admin partitions; this includes the application firewall, NetScaler gateway, AAA-TM, Load balancing for FTP, SIP, RADIUS, RDP, VXLAN, Cluster, DNS, GSLB, and so...