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Cool things that NetScaler MAS can do!

Leave a Comment / 22. December 2016 22. December 2016

So to be honest I haven’t actually spent to much time looking at all the details that NetScaler MAS of features. I have blogged about some of the features such as NITRO API Proxy: http://msandbu.org/leveraging-netscaler-mas-as-a-nitro-api-proxy/ NetScaler MAS and multi-tenancy: http://msandbu.org/netscaler-mas-and-multi-tenancy/ NetScaler MAS and Docker Remote API: http://msandbu.org/setting-up-nmas-with-remote-docker-integration-with-ubuntu-docker-hosts/ But there are a bunch of other stuff …

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Leveraging Microsoft Azure with NetScaler HA

Leave a Comment / 20. December 2016 20. December 2016

Now many are leveraging Netscaler GSLB to setup complex Geo based load balancing across different regions using built-in health checks and proximity based upon latency to endpoint and such. Citrix have also made some investments into the feature with Zones feature in XenDesktop which works together with GSLB to allow for Optimal Gateway Routing to …

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Improving website performance using Citrix NetScaler

Leave a Comment / 19. December 2016 19. December 2016

Most of the time when I come into existing NetScaler deployments, it is often only deployed as a simple load balancer to do SharePoint / Exchange or some web front-end, while that is of course a viable option this can also be done with other viable options such as HAProxy, Nginx Plus and so on, …

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NetScaler MAS and Multi-tenancy

Leave a Comment / 19. December 2016 19. December 2016

If you’re a large enterprise and have multiple NetScaler instances for different purposes such as a VPX for Exchange or SharePoint and another one to NetScaler Gateway and even a cluster for front-end eCommerce webshops, and with mulitple locations in the mix as well there are a couple of things you want to have place …

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NetScaler IP Reputation feature and Webroot

Leave a Comment / 17. December 2016 17. December 2016

NetScaler IP Reputation which is a pretty new feature and is as of now only included as part of Platinum, is one of the few Cloud Based Services that Citrix has included in NetScaler so far. Now IP Reputation is a pretty simple yet effective means to get updated list of “known bad IP addresses” …

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Leveraging NetScaler MAS as a NITRO API Proxy

Leave a Comment / 16. December 2016 16. December 2016

One of the cool features Citrix MAS which most haven’t seen yet, is the ability to use it as a NITRO API Proxy, So this is something that I spoke about on the MYCUGC Networking webinar, so I decided to write a blogpost on it as well. So for instance in a fully managed enviroment, …

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Setting up High-availability NetScaler in Microsoft Azure ARM

Leave a Comment / 16. December 2016 16. December 2016

I’m currently invovled in a PoC on setting up a redudant NetScaler deployment in Microsoft Azure, now it’s been some time since I had a session on setting up NetScaler and Azure on the NetScaler Masterclass so I decided to do a post on setting up High-availability pair NetScaler on Azure and what you need …

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Citrix SD-WAN and Equinix better together

Leave a Comment / 15. December 2016 15. December 2016

So I noticed the other day that Citrix and Equnix are teaming up in order to bring the cloud “closer” to the customers by leveraging SD-WAN technology from Citrix and connecting it directly with a Equinix Performance hub. So why would this be an option? For instance customers who are leveraging Azure or maybe Office365 …

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Customizing Role Based Access Control in Azure

Leave a Comment / 13. December 2016 13. December 2016

One of the things I often find in Azure deployments is the lack of RBAC usage, which is quite easy now in the new portal and integrated quite easily with AzureAD. By default the one that creates the a Azure Subscription has the role of Owner which has full rights to view/manage and can create …

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Benchmarking Adaptive Transport for HDX

Leave a Comment / 13. December 2016 13. December 2016

Now with the release of XenDesktop 7.12 I’ve been quite busy testing the new preview of Adaptive Transport for HDX. Now one thing that it took some time for me to understand is that as it states “Transport Protocol” so you can still use ThinWire for instance over Adaptive Transport just like you did before. …

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