Chapter 2. Traffic Management Features

This chapter is focused on the features that form the basis of most NetScaler deployments. They are available under the traffic management node in the UI. These features are as follows:

  • Load balancing
  • SSL offloading
  • Content switching
  • GSLB

Let's explore and discuss troubleshooting these features one at a time.

Load balancing

The NetScaler started off as a high performance load balancer and is still its most prominent use case. In this chapter, we will look at a range of issues/questions that you come across when setting up or managing a load balanced environment with the NetScaler.

Considerations

First, let's look at some considerations around the general settings of load balancing.

Startup RR factor

Let's consider a ...

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