Citrix® NetScaler® VPX provides the complete NetScaler web application load balancing, acceleration, security and offload feature set in a simple, easy to install virtual appliance. IT organizations of any size can deploy NetScaler VPX on industry standard servers—on-demand—anywhere in the datacenter.

NetScaler VPX converges virtualization and networking. NetScaler VPX makes functionality typically only offered on specialized, high-end network devices available as a virtual appliance that can be easily and dynamically deployed on a single server or across entire cloud datacenters. The simplicity and flexibility of NetScaler VPX make it easy and cost effective to fully optimize every Web application and more effectively integrate networking services with application delivery. For example:

• HA for XenApp - NetScaler VPX makes ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for XenApp even simpler with integrated local and global server load balancing and secure remote access. Indeed, if a XenApp deployment is already virtualized, then adding NetScaler VPX is as simple as adding another VM to the deployment. Smaller XenApp and XenDesktop deployments can now benefit from the same integrated secure remote access, global server load balancing and load balancing for Web Interface and XML broker that NetScaler appliances provide, and run it using the same server infrastructure used to run XenApp itself. Learn more

• Dev/Test - NetScaler VPX can be easily incorporated into development and lab environments, making it easy to integrate NetScaler load balancing, application acceleration and application security functionality into application development and test cycles. Development teams can easily tap all of NetScaler’s advanced functionality, and by making it easy to include NetScaler in test cycles there is less likelihood of application and network conflicts during application or networking change management. Learn more

• Flex Tenancy - IT organizations can mix physical and virtual appliances to create a Web application delivery fabric. NetScaler MPX appliances are deployed at the datacenter edge to address high-capacity network-wide actions. Dedicated NetScaler VPX instances are deployed, on-demand, deeper within the datacenter core to handle application-specific actions. The entire deployment is centrally managed via Citrix Command Center. Flex/tenancy optimizes the administrative isolation, TCO and flexibility of enterprise application delivery infrastructure. Learn more

Converging virtualization and web application delivery

In addition to supporting datacenters relying upon virtualized server and application resources, NetScaler VPX enables Web application load balancing, acceleration, security and offload to become virtualized services that can be easily deployed on-demand anywhere in the datacenter or cloud infrastructure. This enables combining NetScaler VPX with other virtualized networking solutions to deliver an end-to-end L2-L7 virtual networking stack. Learn more

NetScaler VPX can be incorporated within larger automation/orchestration solutions using Citrix Workflow Studio or orchestration solutions from Citrix partners, enabling organizations to provision load balancing and advanced web application delivery services on-the-fly. And, as multiple cloud datacenters begin to be used, NetScaler VPX instances can easily “follow the application,” eliminating the need to replicate specialized physical infrastructure in every datacenter or hosting facility.

NetScaler VPX platforms

	VPX-1000	VPX-200	VPX-10
Performance
HTTP Throughput	1 Gbps	200 Mbps	10 Mbps
SSL encrypted throughput	1 Gbps	200 Mbps	10 Mbps
HTTP compression throughput	750 Mbps	200 Mbps	10 Mbps
Application firewall throughput	500 Mbps	200 Mbps	10 Mbps
Max concurrent TCP connections1	5 million	5 million	5 million
New SSL req/sec	500	500	500
Max concurrent SSL VPN users2	300	300	300
Minimum requirements per physical host3
Hypervisor	XenServer 5 Update 3 (or later) VMWare ESX/ESXi 3.5 (or later)
Processor4	Dual core server Intel VTx or AMD-V
Memory4	2 GB
Hard drive	20 GB
Network interface	Hypervisor supported network interface card
Minimum requirements for additional NetScaler VPX VMs5
Processor	Dual core server Intel VTx or AMD-V
Memory	1 GB
Hard drive	20 GB

1. Requires 4GB RAM. Max TCP connections with 1GB RAM is 1.2 million.
2. Using 3DES. Max concurrent users using RC4 is 1,000.
3. Minimum requirements to run the hypervisor and a single NetScaler VPX VM.
4. Recommend minumum of 1 core/1GB RAM for hypervisor and 1 core/1GB RAM per NetScaler VPX VM.
5. Minumum incremental requirements for each additional NetScaler VPX VM.

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