You know the value of SDN, but do you know what architecture best supports an SDN system? This presentation explains the importance of best in-class virtualized networking solutions and how those tools integrate with leading SDN systems. You’ll learn how SDN architecture components, such as Citrix Netscaler, help to converge the management of network and application services into a centralized, extensible orchestration platform. You'll also discover how to automate provisioning and configuration of the entire infrastructure to deliver new applications and services in minutes. This presentation is from a webinar presented by Michael Edwards, Principal Architect GTRI, and Jacob Rutski, Citrix, on May 12, 2016.

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How to Support Software Defined
Networking with Dynamic
Network Architecture
Michael Edwards – Principal Architect GTRI
Jacob Rutski– Citrix
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Agenda
• SDN Overview
• L4-L7 Integration with ACI
• Citrix NetScaler Programmability

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Traditional Networking

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SDN Approach Networking

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L4-7 Integration With ACI
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Extend ACI Policy to L4-L7 services
Web
Servers
E-commerce
Servers
Load Balancer

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L4-L7 Traffic Flow
APIC
Blue
Application
Policy
L4-L7 services managed by APIC as part of
Application Network Policy

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Citrix SDN with NetScaler
Jacob Rutski
Sr. Partner Architect
@jrutski

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Agenda
• What is Citrix NetScaler??
• Cisco ACI Products and Relationship
• Citrix NetScaler Features in ACI
• ACI Deployment Enabling Tools

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NetScaler is an ADC
Performanc
e Offload SecurityAvailability
NetScaler has been powering Enterprise, Ecom
and Service Provider applications since 2002.
Load Balancing  AppFW  Acceleration  Security  SSL  Optimization  Availability  Performance

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TOP
CLOUDS
TOP
SPEEDS
• Software first design
• Up to 4.8x faster than F5
• Strong focus on layer 7

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HYPERVISOR
ESX
Xen
Hyper-V
KVM
CLOUD
Amazon
Azure
Softlayer
…
Private
ORCHESTRATION
OpenStack
NSX
Cisco
OpenDaylight
…
…
ARCHITECTURE
Distributed
Microsegment
Hyperscale
Per app
Centralized
…
FORM FACTOR
Physical
Virtual
Multitenant
Partition
Container
Service
ANY
SINGLE
CODEBASE
ONE
MANAGEMENT
ONE
API
IDENTICAL
FEATURE SET
ANYANY ANYANY

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Cisco ACI Products and Relationship

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Citrix and Cisco deliver
simple, secure, and flexible
solutions providing the
freedom to work any way
people and organizations
choose.
Vision and
Strategy
App and Desktop Virtualization
Citrix XenApp & Citrix XenDesktop on Cisco UCS
DaaS Cloud Services
Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI
Application Delivery Networking
Enterprise Mobility
Citrix Workspace Suite and
Cisco Workforce Experience

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M
Data Center Trends Driving Change
Big Data DevOps/Web 2.0 Cloud
Private Cloud
SaaS
Public Cloud
Multi-Hypervisor environment
Open Standards, Open Source
2/3rd of all Workloads in
Cloud by 2017¹
1 Cisco Global Cloud Index
Automated deployment
of big data platforms to
virtualized environments
Simplicity, Speed and Programmability of the Data Center is required to support these trends

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Application
Network Profile
Systems
Management
Hypervisor
Management
OVM
Orchestration
Frameworks
Centralized Policy Management
Open APIs, Open Source,
Open StandardsAPIC
Fabric
Automation Enterprise
MonitoringACI
Ecosystem
Partners
End Points
Physical &
Virtual
Physical
Networking
Nexus 2K
Nexus 7K
Hypervisors and
Virtual Networking
Compute L4–L7
Services
Storage Multi DC
WAN and Cloud
Integrated
WAN Edge
Introducing: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

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Citrix NetScaler Features in ACI

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APIC Device Package Functions
Cisco Confidential
Device Package
Function Profiles (XML)
Device Scripts (Python-JSON)
}
VPX MPX SDX
Citrix TriScale Security High Availability Elasticity Visibility
App Delivery NetScaler MobileStream Load Balancing GSLB Optimized XA/XD
One Package controls VPX, MPX, SDX

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NetScaler Differentiated Integration
• https://dcloud.cisco.com/
Production Class
Features
Production Class
Application Templates
Citrix ACI
Application Templates
Citrix ACI Features
Load Balancing
SSL Offload
Content Switching
Data Streaming
Application Firewall
Global Server Load Balancing
AAA
Cache Redirection
Content Acceleration
Domain Name Service
Integrated Caching
Compression
SSL VPN

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NetScaler + APIC Control-Plane Relationship
Citrix Device Package
imported to APIC
Device Package +
XML Function Profiles
(or manually created
policies in GUI)
Southbound API
(Python / JSON)
connects to NetScaler
NetScaler
Device Package
APIC – Policy Manager
Configuration Model (XML File)
Script Engine
APIC – Southbound Interface
Python Scripts + JSON
NetScaler

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ACI Support Matrix
• Supported Citrix NetScaler Platforms
– Citrix NetScaler VPX/MPX/SDX (virtual) appliances release 10.1 and higher
• Unsupported Citrix NetScaler Platforms
– Citrix NetScaler SDX SVM configuration
• Currently Unsupported Management Features (To Be Supported by APIC)
– NetScaler Clustering
– NetScaler Admin Partitions

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Managing NetScaler through APIC
• NetScaler feature configurations that are out-of-band & cannot be performed
through Cisco APIC
– High Availability configuration
– Management access, including Subnet IP address (SNIP), VLAN, Interfaces, and NetScaler
management IP address (NSIP) bindings
– SSL certificate file management
– System user accounts and role-based-access-control (RBAC) policies
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ACI Deployment Enabling Tools

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Enterprise workload automation with ACI – Delivered !!
2015
Jan, 2016
≥
APIC APIC
≥
Delivered

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The ACI Migration Tool
• 80% of NetScaler ACI customers went straight to deployment with this help
Migration
Tool APIC XML File for
NetScaler
APIC Migration tool helps in translating functions from ns.conf to APIC XML file
NetScaler’s function
snippet like ADC,
CS, SSL, GSLB
add service webservice2 110.110.110.102 TCP 22
add service webservice1 110.110.110.101 TCP 22
add lb vserver webVirtualServer TCP 220.220.220.200
22 -persistenceType SOURCEIP -cltTimeout 9000
add lb vserver newww HTTP 220.220.220.130 80
add nsip 220.220.220.144 255.255.255.0 -type snip
bind lb vserver webVirtualServer webservice2
bind lb vserver webVirtualServer webservice1

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Citrix XenDesktop on ACI
• Topology Overview

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Take advantage of the world’s largest clouds powered by Citrix
NetScaler combined with next-gen enterprise datacenters powered by
Cisco ACI
Cisco APIC
Administrator
Apply
Policy
Cisco ACI
Fabric
Traditional
3-Tier
App
Firewall NetScaler Web App DB
API
C
VPX MPX SDX
Citrix TriScale Security High Availability Elasticity Visibility
App Delivery NetScaler MobileStream Load Balancing GSLB Optimized XA/XD
Automated Self-
Service ADC
• Deploy Apps
Faster
• Achieve
Workload
Mobility

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Key Takeaways
Cloud
Enterprise
Service
Software
Defined
Networking
ScaleUp Scale-Out
NetScaler is a
key asset in
delivering the SDN
Features ready
for the cloud /
virtualized network

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Work better. Live better.Work better. Live better.

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GTRI SDN Solutions
• GTRI’s Virtualization and Advanced Networking Professional
Services (PS) practice has expertise with SDN vendor solutions.
• GTRI has top-tier partner status with the most relevant long-
term vendors in the IT virtualization market.
• GTRI offers an SDN readiness assessment service to assess
your infrastructure, your applications, and the benefits to your
business gained from using SDN.
• GTRI has a SDN test bed where we can learn and teach SDN
solutions and help validate solutions prior to deployment.
• GTRI is performing SDN deployments and we will freely share
the latest vendor and industry information with you.

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FREE SDN Technology Review
• We are offering a FREE 3-hour (~1/2 day) SDN
technology review for your company
• Bring your networking, security, DevOps, and other
technology teams together
• Review SDN capabilities within your existing
networked infrastructure
• Discuss SDN architecture and design options
• Review network automation and network
programmability potential

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