Citrix ADC VPX data sheet

Citrix ADC VPX converges and consolidates networking infrastructure. 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 enterprise datacenters. The simplicity and flexibility of Citrix ADC VPX makes it easy and cost effective to fully optimize every application type. For example:

• Provide secure remote access and high availability for any application type like Citrix apps, web and enterprise apps, cloud and SaaS apps, and mobile apps
• Provision and de-provision Citrix ADC on-demand in test and lab environments, telecom service and cloud provider environments
• Cost effectively deploy full Citrix ADC functionality in front of applications, such as Microsoft SharePoint and Office Communication Server

Citrix Gateway¹⁰ offers secure remote access to any application whether it be web, legacy client-server, SaaS, mobile or Citrix apps. In addition to the basic and advanced ICA proxy functionalities, Citrix Gateway also provides:

• One URL for remotely accessing any application on any device type
• SAML 2.0 federated identity for enabling single sign-on across all application types
• Centralized policy management for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops using SmartControl
• Anywhere access on iOS⁵ and Android⁶ mobile devices
• Support for Linux⁷, MacOS⁸, and Windows⁹ Operating systems

With Citrix ADC VPX, IT and service providers can take full advantage of virtualized servers and associated resources that are already in place and deploy application delivery controllers and remote access SSL VPN gateways on-demand anywhere in any network or datacenter. Citrix ADC VPX is not dependent on specific server hardware, which enables enterprises to exploit low-cost, commodity server platforms. In addition, multiple Citrix ADC instances can be deployed on a single physical server to maximize utilization of hardware infrastructure. At the other end of the spectrum, service providers now have the option to utilize whatever special-purpose hardware—for example, NEBS compliant or DC-powered systems—from whatever source best meets their needs or internal standards.

The ability to easily upgrade Citrix ADC VPX licenses and swap out underlying hardware platforms to up-size or down-size an implementation as needed represents a considerable degree of investment protection, especially relative to fixed form-factor alternatives. In addition, a broad range of price-performance combinations ensures that there is a good fit for every use case, from small-to-medium and departmental implementations to those typical of larger enterprises and service providers.

Citrix ADC VPX enables organizations to dynamically provision crucial application delivery and remote access services in support of dynamically provisioned applications. With Citrix ADC VPX, individual applications and the functionality required to ensure their availability, performance and security can be spun up, spun down and even migrated as conditions dictate. Responsiveness is enhanced at the same time that the use (and re-use) of computing resources is optimized, further improving operational efficiency and automation.

IT organizations and service providers can mix physical and virtual appliances to create a web and application delivery fabric. Specifically, MPX appliances can be deployed at the datacenter edge to address high-capacity network-wide actions while Citrix ADC VPX can be deployed, on-demand, deeper within the datacenter core to handle application-specific processor intensive actions—all managed via a central command center. This provides the lowest TCO and greatest flexibility. By exploiting the specific strengths of both physical and virtual appliances, the resulting web and application delivery fabric enables maximum functionality and flexibility at minimum cost. Further key advantages of this approach include:

• Tuning advanced delivery capabilities to meet the requirements of each specific application
• Separating and isolating application delivery services along different organizational boundaries

Hypervisor Versions: For details on hypervisor support, visit the Support Matrix and Usage Guidelines on the Citrix website.

¹ For Standard license, VPX minimum memory requirement is 2 GB for up to 2 vCPUs. For Advanced or Premium, VPX minimum memory requirement is 4 GB for up to 2 vCPUs. For the optimal performance, irrespective of the license, we recommend 4 GB memory per vCPU (e.g., for a VPX with 6 vCPUs, we recommend having 24GB memory allocated).

² Processors supported: Intel VTx.

³ VMXNET3 is supported on ESXi versions only.

¹ Performance validated for Citrix Hypervisor using SR-IOV only.
You can find more information by visiting the Citrix ADC VPX Product Documentation page.

Hypervisor Versions: For details on hypervisor support, visit the Support Matrix and Usage Guidelines on the Citrix website.

You can find more information by visiting the Citrix ADC VPX Product Documentation page.

Note: “*”  means support for BYOL only; “**” means support for BYOL & Marketplace Subscription

¹ AWS - VPX 8000, VPX 10G, VPX 15G, and VPX 25G, VPX40G and VPX 100G are applicable for BYOL only on AWS. With larger BYOL licenses, VPX can achieve up to 30 Gbps Max throughput and higher SSL TPS. EC2 instances should be selected based on the performance requirement. C5, C5n and M5 instance families are recommended for higher performance.

² Azure - VPX 3000,VPX 5000, VPX 8000, VPX 10000, VPX 15000 needs an Azure instance which support Accelerated Networking (Standard_D4s_v4 and above). Cloud instance should also support the throughput as per license.

³ GCP - VPX 8000, VPX 10G, VPX 15G, and VPX 25G, VPX40G and VPX 100G are applicable for BYOL only on GCP. With larger BYOL licenses, VPX can achieve up to 15 Gbps Max throughput and higher SSL TPS

⁴ Higher Bandwidth BYOL VPX license will not support the Bandwidth as per license but CPU intensive work loads will get higher performance.

vCPU licenses are also supported and available as part of vCPU pooled.

You can find more information by visiting the Citrix ADC VPX Product Documentation page.

Notes

¹ Network Driver: 2x Xeon CPU E5-2687W v3 20 Physical Cores @ 3.0 GHz, OS: Centos 7.6, CPX version: 13.0-39.4, NIC: 2x40 Gbps XL710 (Dual Port)

² This is network I/O bound performance. You may achieve higher performance based on packet processing size

You can find more information by visiting the Citrix ADC VPX Product Documentation page.