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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

An enterprise VDI multisite environment


Nowadays, in a lot of companies, the IT environment is way more important than it was a few years ago. The IT environment is one of the primary processes. For example, the order system or the e-mails need to be fully functional 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This makes it hard for the IT department to perform maintenance or migrations, for example.

Because of this, companies need to invest more money in the IT environment to make sure that it is fully functional at any time, for example, with data centers at different locations. This data center could be on the other side of the building or at a separate location. This separated location could be a colocation provider, for example.

When implementing a second or a third data center, we also need to be aware of the changes that need to be made to the environment. All data centers need to be connected with each other through a good connection with a high capacity to transfer data between the data center...