When setting up my internal Rancher Master Service I noticed that I was getting some wierd timeout values in the UI, the management console acted gray and it went extremly slow when accessing it externally. After starting up Developer mode in Google Chrome I noticed right away that I was getting some websockets timeouts. WebSockets …
So with the upcoming release of the NetScaler 11.1 build 51, it will now finally support Intune integration which I have been waiting on for some time now. This new feature allows for Conditional access against on-premises web applications like SharePoint and such. So for instance the integration allows NetScaler to pull compliance data from …
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TCP Fast Open (TFO) is a TCP mechanism that enables speedy data exchange between a client and a server during TCP’s initial handshake. By using the TFO mechanism, you can reduce an application’s network latency by the time required for one full round trip, which significantly reduces the delay experienced in short TCP transfers. So …
So this is something that I was tasked with a couple of weeks ago, where a customer was having issues with their network bandwidth to their website was exhausted because of a sophisticated DoS attach which seemed like a regular HTTP request, but it made the webserver exhaust its resources and comsume bandwidth upstream so …
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So a new year is coming! and I’m getting a lot of questions about XenApp Express these days, what it is and how much does it cost and how does it work? So this is a blog post which sums up the things I know as of now, so things might change before the release …
So I just noticed yesterday that Rancher now have gained experimental support for Windows Server Containres as part of their latest experimental build. This RC build has simple support for running Windows Server Containers. So in order to set it up we need to download the RC build from Docker Hub sudo docker pull rancher/server:v1.3.0-rc1 …
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So a new feature that was introduced in 11.1 which I some reason overlooked was the ability to configure seperate TCP profiles using AppQoE actions, which in its essence allows us to configure different AppQoE policies using different TCP profiles based upon which endpoint is connecting using expressions. Now by default when a client connects …
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 …
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 …
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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