[Can you put these High-Performance commands in a TECH ARTICLE? Also, Please support all PREVIOUS SSL-OFFLOADING Hardware that the NetScaler MPX/SDX already supports. This is what we currently use.]

Hi @naka moto​ 

Thanks for reaching out to us. The tech article will be published soon.

You can re-watch the video under this link.

https://community.netscaler.com/s/webinar/a078b000013hFsNAAU/master-highperformance-strategies-for-netscaler-vpx-on-esxi

[Deploying Netscaler BLX in Shared mode on RHEL 9.2 , hosted on Xenserver hypervisor.]

Hi Shahzad

Dedicated mode is recommended for any BLX deployments.

If you are limited by NICs in the host Linux, you can leverage BLX managed mode to function with single NIC while retaining connection to the host system.

https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/blx/current-release/auto-config-blx

Shared mode is not advisable for production.

[What is the maximum limit on number of interfaces that can be attached to a NetScaler VPX on ESXi, XenServer, KVM and Hyper-V?]

What is the maximum limit on number of interfaces that can be attached to a NetScaler VPX on ESXi, XenServer, KVM and Hyper-V?

[Deploying Netscaler BLX in Shared mode on RHEL 9.2 , hosted on Xenserver hypervisor.]

@Shahzad Siddique​ 

On RHEL based hosts, Keeping SELinux - Enforcing prevents BLX from starting up.

The fix is expected to be released as part of next 13.1 17.x release.

As a workaround, please disable the SELinux and start the BLX

or

You can try the suggestion mentioned in the following thread

https://community.netscaler.com/s/question/0D58b0000AYZo5LCQT/it-is-possible-to-run-netscaler-adc-blx-when-the-host-linux-selinux-is-configured-to-be-enforcing-

Documentation - https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/blx/current-release/limitations-blx.html

[Hi, I would like to deploy a Netscaler VPX appliance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as there is no marketplace image yet, how could I deploy my appliance on OCI ? Is there an existing step by step guide I could follow /adapt to my need ? Thank you]

Hi @Vincent Caset​ ,

NetScaler VPX is not natively supported on the OCI.

There used to be an indirect way of bringing up a KVM Hypervisor on a Bare-metal OCI instance followed by VPX provisioning on top of it as explained in the document below.

https://cloudmarketplace.oracle.com/marketplace/content?contentId=38906949

NetScaler BLX is already validated on OCI Cloud.

https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/blx/current-release/deploy-blx.html

Several customers already use BLX in the standalone deployment.

The support for Gateway and OCI HA on BLX is in development and it is expected to be released later this year.

[Netscaler VPX /var volume too small when provisioning from Marketplace.]

@Kai Thorsrud​ 

You can attach a second disk to the VPX to counter this issue.

For Azure, please make sure that the VM sizes have a local temporary disk.

Documentation link - https://docs.netscaler.com/en-us/citrix-adc/current-release/deploying-vpx/deploy-vpx-faq.html

 

Please let us know if you need further queries.

[Hope all of you have seen the new NetScaler Logo, website(https://www.netscaler.com/) colors messaging etc. Please comment on what you liked about this new change?]

The new logo is modern and simple.

It feels so good to have our own Netscaler website.

[Do you have any plans on adding BLX packages to the platform package managers? (Like apt, yum)]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Can BLX be deployed on a Virtual machine? If yes, how it is different from Bare-metal deployment?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Could BLX (in the future ) have a deployment mode that could offer 'instances' a bit like SDX? To offer BLX different instances within a Linux partition of some sort?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[How does BLX handle the linux firewall/iptables or the linux firewall needs to be disabled ?]

#NetScaler​ Live Demo - Session 2

[Does BLX have GUI support as VPX & MPX?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Is there any difference when it comes to ns.conf or APIs between VPX, MPX, BLX and CPX?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[What are the choices for using BLX vs VPX? Why would you use one vs another?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Can you cluster a NetScaler BLX?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Does NetScaler BLX supports pooled capacity licensing ? Do you have any license limitation for BLX?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[NetScaler BLX Coexistence is an interesting use case - Are there are gotchas/requirements e.g. Port conflicts or resource conflicts with all CPU offloaded to NetScaler?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[When a machine is converted into NetScaler BLX, is management traffic to SSH affected by the license limitations? Is there a way to get that traffic isolated, so that it is not affected?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Can we use a Linux distribution other than CentOS to install NetScaler BLX?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Does NetScaler BLX support SSL offload acceleration? Can cards be added to speed that up?]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[Are there any plans to support BLX on ARM64? And what about ARM64 for CPX, as it is closely related to BLX.]

#NetScaler Live Demo - Session 2

[What is the limitation on total number of NICs that can be dedicated to NetScaler BLX? Does the limitation vary with DPDK and NON-DPDK capable NICs?]

What is the limitation on total number of NICs that can be dedicated to NetScaler BLX? Does the limitation vary with DPDK and NON-DPDK capable NICs?

[What is the maximum limit on number of VNICs that can be attached to a NetScaler VPX on Public cloud - AWS, Azure and GCP ?]

What is the maximum limit on number of VNICs that can be attached to a NetScaler VPX on Public cloud - AWS, Azure and GCP ?

[Hi folks, will the Netscaler ever be usable on linux/arm64 linux/arm64/v8 platforms? I've tried to use a docker image on Mac M1 , M2... but i'm now curios on the further development as ARM Platform will be more and more familiar and deployed]

Thank you for your query Chris.

At this time, we have not actively begun development of ARM processor support.

However, we are putting plans into motion to begin work on it soon.

We will keep everyone updated when we make significant progress so you have all the information you need.

[After rebooting my VPX on AWS, the local DNS request are failing and DNS servers get deleted. How to avoid this?]

After rebooting my VPX on AWS, the local DNS request are failing and DNS servers get deleted.

How to avoid this?