Troubleshooting NetScaler

Chapter 5. High Availability and Networking

NetScaler is a high performance network device, expected to be able to handle several gigabytes of traffic per second while being highly available given how critical enterprise applications are. To ensure optimal performance, NetScaler is generally integrated very tightly into the network, and where there is such integration involved, there is naturally a potential for issues during the deployment stage. Such issues are the focus of this chapter.

The two main areas we'll look at in this chapter are:

• High Availability issues
• Networking issues

High Availability

For many environments that use it, NetScaler becoming unavailable means losing access to a fleet of web applications, and even access to the corporate ...