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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

A global web services environment


Citrix NetScaler is capable of implementing a global web services environment, especially when using the content switching feature. This feature is available from the Citrix NetScaler Free and higher licenses. With the content switching feature, we can use only one WAN IP address for different backend servers. In this way, we can consolidate WAN IP addresses.

If you are using a lot of secure traffic, it's better to use a physical Citrix NetScaler MPX or SDX because of the hardware SSL chip. Besides the SSL chip, please be aware of the generated HTTP requests per second. This number of requests per second is necessary to determine the most suitable hardware for the environment.

When a web service is based on a lot of static website information, we should consider using application acceleration, application security, and frontend optimization. All of these features give a guarantee that the environment is ready to deliver the best performance for every device...