Ever wanted a simple way to block pesky IP-adresses which are giving you much unwated traffic on your webservers? Of course there is the possibility to use ACLs but the become cumbersone if we need to add every IP adress to an ACL (They also get unmanageable) Another option we have is to use pattern …
Using Netscaler to block IP adresses based upon pattern sets and URL responder Read More »
So you are trying to load balance a feature which requires a clients to be redirected to the same backend host using mulitple protocols. For instance an ecommerce site, might allow you to add stuff to the shopping cart using HTTP and then when you want to sign in order to purcahse you need to …
Microsoft released Azure RemoteApp december last year, and there has been alot of speculation on what Azure RemoteApp actually is. Now it has been in preview for a while and I have been able to test drive it for a long time. So therefore I’m going to tell you Azure RemoteApp is and what it …
Now the last couple of months I’ve again been involved with a Netscaler book project with Packt. This is a more advanced book then my previous book with was a more introduction to Citrix Netscaler. This new book is called Mastering Netscaler which has more in-depth information regarding load balancing, appfirewall and such. But… I …
The last couple of days has been active for Vmware, with the release of vSphere 6.0 and with over 200+ features/enhancements. Also with an addition to vGPU annoucement which is a serious improvement to end user computing stack in Vmware. But… for my part with limited hours in the day I’ve been busy giving vCloud …
vCloud Air – setting a standard in IaaS performance Read More »
Since the release of vworkspace 8.5 I’ve been wanting to try out the HTML 5 connector properly! we have a lab enviroment where we have it deployed and it works amazingly fast inside the local network. But… I also want it available from outside our local network, therefore I decided to publish it using our …
Publishing vworkspace HTML 5 connector behind Citrix Netscaler Read More »
The independent R&D project ‘Virtual Reality Check’ (VRC) (www.projectvrc.com) was started in early 2009 by Ruben Spruijt (@rspruijt) and Jeroen van de Kamp (@thejeroen) and focuses on research in the desktop and application virtualization market. Several white papers with Login VSI (www.loginvsi.com) test results were published about the performance and best practices of different hypervisors, …
Participate in the Project VRC “State of the VDI and SBC union 2015” survey! Read More »
Having heard the buzz about Cloudphysics I decided to take it for a test drive, since they have a free edition which gives some limited options but it allows me to see how the software works. Cloudphysics is almost pure SaaS solution. It requires that we first download an virtual appliance that communicates against vCenter …
Today Microsoft released their G-series instances in Azure. This new instance is using a newer Intel Xeon based CPU and also with local SSD disk. “G-Series VM Sizes availability Today, we’re announcing the General Availability release of a new series of VM sizes for Azure Virtual Machines called the G-series. G-series sizes provide the most …
For those working with Netscaler, I often stumple across those that don’t size packet engines properly on Netscaler VPXs. By default, when deploying a Netscaler VPX is comes 2 vCPU and 2 GB memory. Of those 2 vCPU one is used for management purposes and the second vCPU is used for packet flow. It handles …
Netscaler with mulitple packet engines and WHY you should size properly Read More »
