Results for: Load Balancing - Poll
Load Balancing – Hardened
The Citrix NetScaler is already hardended and only VIP's will respond to TCP handshakes. However here are some more considerations for hardening your deployment. Hardening takes place by implementing the following on the Citrix NetScaler Load Balancer - Securing NetScaler system communication, Access Control Lists (ACL), Securing the NetScaler system using RPCNode and External authentication.Securing NetScaler System Communication System to system communicationHigh Availability (HA) TCP ...
Load Balancing – Poll
Take the Load Balancing Algorithm Poll...The load balancing algorithm (or load balancing method) defines the criteria that the NetScaler uses to select the server to which to send client requests.When the configured criteria are met for the selected server, the NetScaler then selects a different server.The different Load Balancing Algorithms available are:Least Connections Method (default) Round Robin Least Response Time Hash Method Least Bandwidth Method Least Packets Method Token ...
Using NetScaler Push to scale Comet applications
NetScaler is a high performance Application Delivery Controller (ADC) designed to scale up to millions of client TCP connections. In version 9.x, we introduced a new technique called Web 2.0 Push to scale the performance of Comet applications. To serve large numbers of simultaneous users, comet apps need a large server infrastructure that holds mostly idle user connections. Using the Push feature, the idle user ...
XenApp Power and Capacity Management & Beyond
By now many of you have had a chance to kick the tires on the upcoming Power and Capacity Management feature of XenApp that is currently in its Tech Preview phase and you may have seen Sridhar's blog on the subject. What I'd like to cover here and hopefully get your feedback on is what's behind this new approach and where we are headed.First ...
Automatic Load Balancing
Load Balancing Auto-Configuration for SAP using Workflow Studio and NetScalerAt the tail end of our certification process at SAP, Citrix engaged in a unique opportunity to make use of the SAP APIs, using Workflow Studio to auto-configure the Citrix NetScaler for Load Balancing. The way it works is, Workflow Studio polls the SAP API, reads the response, and then based on the results ...
Twenty Questions on Virtualization Management
A couple of weeks ago CA released the results of a virtualization management survey they commissioned. I finally got around to reviewing it this week (download the slides here). The survey digs down deep into why these companies made the move to server virtualization, what benefits they feel were a result, what are the management challenges, and how those virtualization investments were measured (if at ...