Overview
NetScaler (formerly Citrix ADC) is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller that delivers your applications quickly, reliably, and securely, with the deployment and pricing flexibility to meet your business unique needs. Deploy NetScaler with NetScaler ADM(Application Delivery Management) Service over simplified 3 staged smart deployment approach and get machine learning based intelligent app & infra analytics with in-built NetScaler Autoscale giving you single centralized control & visibility plane across all your NetScaler deployments.https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/citrix-application-delivery-management-service/getting-started.html Why NetScaler? NetScaler offers high performance with fast application development delivery with NetScaler ADM providing machine learning based App & Infra Analytics, Autoscaling for NetScaler, a comprehensive centralized management system, and orchestration and automation for applications across cloud or hybrid environments for greater agility. NetScaler's all-in-one solution brings point solutions under one roof, ensuring simplicity and security (WAF, Authentication, Bot mitigation, Layer 7 DDoS) every step of the way. NetScaler editions Standard Edition: Delivers reliable application availability, comprehensive L4-7 load balancing, robust performance optimization features, and secure remote access. Secure & manage Ingress traffic for Kubernetes apps using NetScaler VPX with NetScaler Ingress Controller (available for free on AWS marketplace). Advanced Edition: Adds advanced traffic management, clustering support, stronger security features, extended optimizations, SSO, and more. Premium Edition: Adds powerful security features including WAF and Bot mitigation, expanded application acceleration capabilities, and enhanced management and visibility resources. For additional details please visit http://netscaler.com/platform
Highlights
- Flexible & Consistent: NetScaler is the most comprehensive, feature-rich ADC available across a wide variety of deployment options with the most flexible pooled capacity licensing option in the industry. Manage hybrid cloud deployments easily with a single pane that provides visibility and automation across all factors, with application health, performance analytics, and user actions in one place.
- User Experience: NetScaler is the only vendor to offer an intelligent, global load-balancing service that uses real-time Internet traffic and data center health to route users to the best source for their applications and content.
- Integrated App Security: A single code base across physical, virtual, bare-metal, and containers enables consistency across your applications and workflow.
Details
Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
NetScaler does not currently offer refunds, but you can cancel at any time.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Access the application via a browser at http://<public_dns>/. To connect to the operating system, use SSH and the default username is nsroot and password is instance-id. All application controls are available via the command line by typing "commands /help".
Resources
Support
Vendor support
To file a support case please visit https://www.citrix.com/support/open-a-support-case/
For AWS subscription instances (NetScaler), have your AWS account number and support PIN code ready. You will also be asked for your name and email address. To find the support PIN, log on to the NetScaler VPX GUI and navigate to the System page. For more details Please refer to https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/citrix-adc/current-release/deploying-vpx/deploy-aws/troubleshoot-vpx-aws.html
For NetScaler BYOL instances you must have a valid support and maintenance agreement. If you do not have an agreement, please contact your NetScaler representative.
You can also visit NetScaler VPX Support Forums: https://discussions.citrix.com/forum/1337-netscaler-vpx/ where you can troubleshoot issues and find answers to commonly asked questions. http://support.citrix.com 1 (800) 424-8749 or +1 (954) 267-2658
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Easy to use
As a first time user, I was able to seamlessly deploy it and get it running within few mins. The documentation and CFT are very helpful.
Easy to use and powerful software
Used this software in my earlier company and using it now in my current company as well. Always helped to increase the performance of our applications
Works well in AWS environment
Have used the on-prem product NetScaler and it used to work well.
I had little apprehensions to use it on AWS, but to my surprise it worked well in AWS environment also
Doesn't work at all, have deployed twice and spent 20+ hours troubleshooting
Deploy this AMI, connect to it with a browser, the configuration tab automatically opens and get stuck trying to resolve an autoscale group in DNS. DNS resolution does not function out of the box. Once you upload your license, the configuration tab is permanently stuck on the license loading and never moves forward. I've deployed it twice, and one of the times I added two additional NIC's VIP and SNIP per documentation, can ping IP addresses however DNS does not work so I believe it can't phone home to activate the license (my guess). The configuration tab only displays the license file upload screen and one cannot get past this point, even if they upload a license file. I'd rate this basically DOA, it's completely unusable.
Doesn't work with only one network interface
One of the fundamental architectural requirements is that NetScaler requires 3 network interfaces. However when you deploy this AMI it only comes with one. No problem right? just manually add the other two? Wrong. If you try this your NetScaler becomes unresponsive, you can't access the http/https or the SSH or anything else.
Citrix support does not care enough to even look into this issue. It's almost like they never tested this other than powering it on to see if it worked.