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Load Balancing and Web Acceleration with NetScaler 10

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As you may already know, we recently launched The Most Advanced Cloud Network Platform the “NetScaler 10”. This outstanding product is loaded with more than 100 new world-class feature.Today, I want to spend few minutes to familiarize you with some of the major Load Balancing and Web Acceleration enhancements that we have integrated in NetScaler 10. My hope is that you get to play/try these ...

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NetScaler 10 – A Landmark Release with 100s of New Features

NetScaler 10 is a remarkable release which makes world’s best Internet delivery platform the most advanced Cloud Network platform. While Enterprises are transforming their Datacenters to Cloud they need the application acceleration and availability requirements to be taken care of. And beyond that there are several visibility, security and scalability aspects which need to be looked at while they move to Cloud.Talk about Cloud or ...

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Load Balancing – VIP Failure – part 3

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A Load Balancer such as the Citrix NetScaler has monitors built in, to automatically redirect Client requests to the back-end servers that are up and running. But, what happens if the front-end is down? Load Balancing can fail when a Virtual Server or Vserver fails, or when the VIP is unable to handle excessive traffic. Protecting the LB setup against failure helps ensure ...

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Load Balancing – Persistence Groups

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Configuring persistence for a group of vserversIf you want to apply persistence across multiple vservers, you can add the vservers to a persistence group and then specify a persistence method. You bind virtual servers using different protocols in one group and configure persistence across the different protocols. When persistence is set on the group of virtual servers, client requests are directed to the same ...

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Load Balancing – Backup Persistence

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Configuring a backup persistence methodThe NetScaler Load Balancer uses the backup persistence option when the primary persistence fails. For example, the primary persistence type is set to Cookie Insert, and backup persistence is set to Source IP. When the client browsers do not support cookies, Source IP persistence is used. To set the backup persistence option to Source IP, you must set the primary ...

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Qs and As – Guaranteeing Availability and Scale for XenApp and XenDesktop Deployments

Thank you all for "attending" the web based TechTalk on June 17th, 2010.The topic - "Guaranteeing Availability and Scale for XenApp and XenDesktop Deployments" - covered a lot of ground across a few products. Some questions were raised during the talk.By the way, actual replay of the TechTalk is available here.Let me address some of these:Can GSLB be IP based, without pointing to a ...

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GSLB Modes

I have been blogging about my experiences in using the NetScaler GSLB to manage the user load between datacenters. The interesting thing about GSLB is its differing uses. While companies use GSLB to balance traffic between sites, others use the technology to redirect traffic to Disaster Rocovery (D/R) sites only in the event of a catastrophic failure or only during extended planned datacenter ...

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