Saturday, February 20, 2021

Citrix (NetScaler) ADC Hardware Platform


Citrix ADC is an application delivery controller that analyses application-specific traffic to distribute, optimize, and secure Layer 4-Layer 7 (L4–L7) network traffic intelligently for web applications. The ADC features can be broadly classified into switching, security and protection, server-farm optimization, and global server load balancing (GSLB). For more information, see Citrix ADC product site.

▶ Explore Citrix ADC platforms

https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-adc/platforms.html

▶ Citrix ADC appliances

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-adc.html

The Citrix ADC is available as a hardware or a software-based appliance. Hardware options include single and multitenant devices. Software-based options include virtual hypervisor-based and containerized microservice offerings.

  • Citrix ADC MPX

(hardware)
The Citrix ADC MPX is a hardware-based application delivery appliance offering performance ranging from 500 Mb/s to 200 Gb/s.

  • Citrix ADC SDX

(hardware)
The Citrix ADC SDX appliance is a multitenant platform on which you can provision and manage multiple virtual Citrix ADC machines (instances).

  • Citrix ADC VPX

(software)
The Citrix ADC VPX product is a virtual appliance that can be hosted on a wide variety of virtualization and cloud platforms offering performance ranging from 10 Mb/s to 100 Gb/s.

  • Citrix ADC CPX

(software)
The Citrix ADC CPX is a Citrix ADC delivered as a Docker container.

  • Citrix ADC BLX

(software)
Citrix ADC BLX appliance is a software form-factor of Citrix ADC. It is designed to run natively on bare-metal-Linux on commercial off-the-shelf servers (COTS).

Citrix ADC MPX/SDX data sheet


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