Chapter 7. Load Balancing with Citrix^® NetScaler^®

Today's IT organizations are a complex ecosystem of well…expectations. Performance is treated as a commodity and nothing short of the fastest is acceptable by enterprise software, data centers, and services. Not only do systems need to deliver quickly but they also have to be highly available with no single point of failure. As a product that impacts your entire IT infrastructure, Citrix XenApp is expected to provide high performance for end users, while also keeping an environment secure and easy to manage for system administrators. Over the years, Citrix has acquired and developed a number of products that add value to its core solutions. One such product is NetScaler, part of which we already deployed in the previous chapter. Now that we have an authentication point in place for XenApp, we are going to set up load balancing for StoreFront. NetScaler can be used to load balance a multitude of services not...