NetScaler 10 - An exit Landmark with 100s of new features

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NetScaler 10 - An exit Landmark with 100s of new features -

NetScaler 10 is a remarkable version is the best Internet platform for delivery of the world's most advanced platform Cloud Network. As companies transform their data centers cloud they need to accelerate the application and availability requirements to support. And beyond that, there are several aspects of visibility, security and scalability that should be watched as they move to the cloud.

Tell Cloud or Enterprise or Internet or Telco ... NetScaler 10 is a version for ALL

To begin with Citrix TriScale technology changes the scaling limit forever. It presents the 3 key factors around scalability that meets all your needs immaterial what the nature of the business you have and what your deployment model

  • Scale up -. Growth in demand for 5x on the unique material
  • scale - consolidation of 40 devices in one unit
  • Scale Out - scale capacity by adding nodes to 32x

the clustering technology that allows scale Out 32x factor is just wonderful because it works perfectly on all hardware and software NetScaler appliances. NetScaler 10 introduces the biggest change of the infrastructure where you can NetScaler cluster nodes together to drive through any type of requirement and performance scalability. It focuses on how you can easily spend more nodes working in isolation logic cluster nodes without any requirement of physical hardware. It also features a simplified extension model where you can continue to add nodes to meet your needs across without disturbing production traffic. It helps to reduce power consumption and rack space consumption perspective Datacenter / Cloud and can be huge for a large deployment

Here are some quick facts on Cluster :.

  • Cluster NetScaler nodes
  • Can be formed with 2 to 32 nodes
  • One end user system image
  • built on the architecture NetScaler nCore
  • No frames or new equipment required
  • allowed dynamic changes

Benefits Cluster:

  • Provides linear scalability
  • Higher Throughput
  • Configuration extensibility
  • fault Tolerance In existing
  • active carrier active
  • carrier-eve active

looks interesting, is it not :)

Let's get to other functional enhancements and usability in NetScaler 10.

traffic management improvements:

  • supporting TCP Westwood
  • Dynamic TCP receive buffer size
  • Advance political support for SSL
  • Ability to empty Surge Queue
  • Based Persistence rule for TCP / SSL_TCP
  • TXT recording medium in the DNS
  • DBS Auto-scaling
  • Responder action timeout
  • Better Entity scalability
  • string id of custom server based persistence
  • preferred backup list for GSLB proximity
  • NX rewriting answers domain
  • Start slow adjustment end the vserver layer
  • firewall multiple LB vserver support
  • persistent ETag NetScaler Based
  • NetScaler tracing improvements
  • Set-cookie logging head Weblogs
  • client IP logging customized head Weblogs
  • multiple Binding for switching content switching policies
  • SIP medium of expression
    • content
    • Rewrite
    • Responder
    • rate Limiting

Many new features and capabilities, increasing the overall value of the NetScaler solution. TCP Westwood can really do well in wireless environments. entity scalability is critical for larger deployments with many entities around. SIP SIP term support made us aware layer 7 and you can do all kinds of layer 7 processing for SIP traffic ... technically acting as a SIP firewall :)

DataStream Improvements:

  • Responder for DataStream
  • limit rate for DataStream
  • Token LB for DataStream
  • AppFlow for DataStream
  • logaction for DataStream
  • Caching for DataStream

DataStream was the biggest innovation in ADC world recently and was introduced with the previous release of NetScaler. Now with NetScaler 10 you have all the layers 7 features modules for database traffic, which add value to HTTP / TCP stream today. So it is completely integrated into the system with the support of the policy in advance. The benefits of DataStream and AppFlow Caching would be huge and a real game changer ...

AAA Enhancements:

    2.0 Support for consumption
  • SAML
    • Provider Initiated services
    • Identity Provider Initiated
  • NTLMv2 media session
  • Signature Support NTLMv2

NetScaler has a strong AAA module and adding additional support for NTLMv2 protocol support for seamless integration into the Microsoft environment. The real game changer here is SAML becomes standard authentication protocol and SSO for cloud services and deployments. Having SAML consumer support 2.0 is excellent because it allows us to work with multiple identity providers. In addition to providing other ADC services in the cloud, the SAML support will make us the choice for cloud-facto deployments

XA / XD (WIonNS) Improvements :.

  • Options download client plugin
  • Login Page Customization
  • Mobile customer support receiver
  • Case sensitivity Handling
  • multiple Client Access Methods
  • Address Translation

to facilitate up XenApp / XenDesktop deployments, one important step was having the ability to host Web Interface on NetScaler. It has enormous advantages and further increase the value proposition of many improvements are made to this module

Visibility Enhancements :.

  • Action Analytics
  • AppFlow
    • New HTTP Export Settings
    • Support for MySQL and MSSQL
    • notice EdgeSight models

visibility has become the mainstream center for us in the last version where AppFlow was launched. AppFlow allowed to see the statistics all the way from layer 2 to layer 7, which was not possible with the old standards. As deeper into cloud deployment and even within the company, the visibility requirements are becoming increasingly important and this version improves the standard kernel AppFlow add butt application visibility.

NetScaler 10 highlights another interesting feature called " action Analytics " which is a performance analysis engine generate any kind of visibility into applications. It provides the analytical capacity edge that can be fed back into the assessment of the policy cycle. Think when using Caching responses for only Top 10 URL flowing through the system at any time ...

AppExpert Improvements:

  • Ability to import Responder top
  • support for HTML5 content analysis
  • New medium of expression advance

AppExpert layer was conducted many interesting features in many recent versions. This version meets both functional features and usability for AppExpert

Optimization Enhancements :.

  • dynamic cache memory
  • byte range multi carrier Part
  • metadata optimization
  • Look streaming

NetScaler 10 adds important functional characteristics for the optimization layer and highlights the benefits of caching engine. With these core architectural improvements of the cache engine can store multiple objects, process responses more quickly and process requests Part multiple HTTP

Application Firewall Enhancements :.

  • CEF Logging
  • CSRF learning
  • Click to article AppFw
  • security without session
  • Policy manager AppFw
  • Signatures for response secondary controls

on the security front, so the AppFw module comes with lots of improvements interesting. Click the rule could be very useful when you want to relax the rules of protection. Logging can help CEF integration with 3 th party security products. security without session helps reduce significantly memory consumption on the NetScaler platform while resulting in better safety

Network Enhancements :.

  • network profiles
  • logical grouping of IP addresses
  • IPv6 support
    • SNMP
    • LLB
    • PBR
    • DSR
    • RNAT
    • Road with VLAN nexthop
    • Extension Header analysis
    • IS-IS Routing
    • health Surveillance of the gateway
    • LCD Enhancements
      • Increased extended ACL
      • Better ACL support Flush
      • Rename support extended ACL and ACL6

network infrastructure network has several useful improvements, especially IPv6 support has come through A long way. This is a blockbuster release IPv6 parity with IPv4 reduction features and put them on the same grounds. network profile as feature will be loved by everyone because it helps in several use cases. ACL improvements are very useful and valid for most use cases

Other Security Improvements targeted :.

  • Configurable SYN cookies protection
  • execution SYN attack detection
  • protection against attack Reneg TLS
  • Adaptive timeout request for DoS HTTP

security remains our priority and with each release NetScaler adds value to the basic protective layer. With NetScaler 10, we have introduced better SYN ability to protect against attacks with the execution detection engine. TLS renegotiation MITM attack was under heavy focus last year and we have added basic protection with multiple options. NetScaler 10 also addresses the Slowloris and Slowpost popular kind of attacks that disturbed many Web applications and deployments worldwide

Manageability Enhancements :.

  • lightweight GUI
  • most displaced pages in HTML
  • Pagination support on UI
  • navigation aid of the Easy user
  • Load balancing Models
  • deployment Wizard for BR LB
  • NITRO Enhancements
    • Exception handling
    • Accept header support
    • support Content-Type header
    • HTTP Error Code usage
    • Log token support
    • authentication using HTTP headers
    • Allow warning in NITRO responses
    • cluster support with NITRO

NetScaler 10 adds real usability improvements to the user interface that makes the interface much simpler and lighter. This interface has most HTML form components that facilitates loading and easier to handle the client side. Even the global factor look-n-feel has greatly improved and you also have lots of new wizards for easy configuration. NITRO is the way to go for any kind of automation requirement that you and APIs make it much simpler. NITRO is more relaxed with this version and have added many new features to reduce the need to analyze the responses, etc.

Beyond everything else, we've added a new feature with automatic alert mechanism called " CallHome ". This module will allow you to communicate with the Citrix NetScaler TAAS server on their own depending on the specific fault conditions. NetScaler will be able to push the technical support data TAAS server debugging and generate SNMP traps to the user if he wants to open a formal case with the Citrix support for debugging.

You see there is much more than you expect one to release any product .... :) And note that this is not the complete list because there no way that we can write one blog to cover all the interesting features within NetScaler 10 ...

therefore, a version designed to help customers and take the expectations of the ADC at any other level .... I said Cloud? :)

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