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Load Balancing and Web Acceleration with NetScaler 10
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 ...
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 ...
CloudStack 3.0 + NetScaler: Driving Application Networking in Cloud
Couple weeks back we started with brainstorming the notion of “Application Networking in Cloud” and here we have the CloudStack 3.0 release which deeply integrates with NetScaler MPX, NetScaler VPX and NetScaler SDX appliances.The Application Delivery leader NetScaler is supported as physical appliance MPX, virtual appliance VPX and service delivery appliance SDX. This is what makes NetScaler special and helps provide various deployment models for ...
Since When Are Web Outages My Fault?
My sister sent me a grumpy email this morning. It appears that any web site outage is now my fault in the family much like she takes the heat for bad behavior by attorneys.Let's get the cynics out of the way first: Black Friday and Cyber Monday are soon upon us, so it seems worthy to note that as of 2008, Ecommerce is clocking in ...
Optimizing PVS
While everyone using Provisioning Services (PVS) in a productive environment should be aware of the basic networking best practices outlined within CTX117374 or the design considerations at CTX125126, there are a couple of advanced configuration options that are not widely known. Today I would like to discuss some of these.Subnet AffinityThe Subnet Affinity feature which has been introduced with PVS5.6, is an advanced load balancing ...
My Desktop Uses a Lot of RAM
When I talk about virtual desktop specifications, we often break down our users into a few different categories (Light, Normal, Power, and Heavy). These categories correspond to the resources we allocate to the virtual desktop (assuming we are talking about the hosted VM-Based desktop model). This should be no surprise. This discussion directly relates to the resource allocation ...
Load Balancing – Slow Start
Preventing overloadWhen you configure a NetScaler to use a metric-based load balancing method such as Least Connections, Least Response Time, Least Bandwidth, Least Packets, or Custom Load, the load balancing method will initially start out as Round Robin for what is called a slow start period.NetScaler appliances use the configured load balancing method to determine the appropriate service for forwarding an incoming request. Load ...
TechTalk Q and A – Simplifying Application Delivery to the Virtual Desktop
Q: Any recommendations for hosting or streaming components such as .NET, Oracle Drivers, MQ drivers, teradata, DB2, etc ? A: Many core OS components will need to be installed as part of the base image. Things like anti-virus, drivers, .NET. Q: Is there a place to find this "Leverage Existing Infrastructure" slide or the info later on?A: Yes. In the next few days there will be 3 ...
Energize your XenApp performance and improve application availability with HRP03
On Oct 15th we released HRP03 for PS 4.5 on Windows Server 2003 and XenApp 5 on Windows Server 2003. Traditionally XenApp HRPs (Hotfix Rollup Pack) are a bundle of bug fixes and hence not that exciting. But in HRP03, in addition to XenApp bug fixes we included IMA optimizations that provide the following benefits.Improved PerformanceFaster load balancing (up to 65% in >250 server farms) Time ...
TechTalk Q&A – Implementing a Virtual Desktop Solution with Citrix XenDesktop
If you attended the live TechTalk, there were more questions than I could answer in the time allotted. If you want, the recording of the webinar can be found here. Also, don't forget to check out the guides and reference architecture for the end-to-end virtual desktop solution:Implementation Guide Reference ArchitectureBut now it is time for the Q&A...Q: So I have Presentation Server 4.0 and can publish ...