Citrix ADC appliances

October 7, 2020
Contributed by:
SC

Citrix ADC is an application delivery controller that analyses application-specific traffic to

distribute, optimize, and secure Layer 4-Layer 7 (L4–L7) network traffic intelligently for
web applications. The ADC features can be broadly classified into switching, security
and protection, server-farm optimization, and global server load balancing (GSLB). For
more information, see Citrix ADC product site.

The Citrix ADC product line

The Citrix ADC is available as a hardware or a software-based appliance. Hardware

options include single and multitenant devices. Software-based options include virtual
hypervisor-based and containerized microservice offerings.

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Citrix ADC MPX Citrix ADC SDX
VPX CPX BLX
(hardware) (hardware)
(software) (software) (software)

The Citrix ADC

VPX product is
Citrix ADC BLX
a virtual
appliance is a
appliance that
software form-
The Citrix ADC MPX is a can be hosted
factor of Citrix
hardware-based The Citrix ADC SDX appliance is on a wide The Citrix ADC
ADC. It is
application delivery a multitenant platform on variety of CPX is a Citrix
designed to
appliance offering which you can provision and virtualization ADC delivered
run natively on
performance ranging manage multiple virtual Citrix and cloud as a Docker
bare-metal-
from 500 Mb/s to 200 ADC machines (instances). platforms container.
Linux on
Gb/s. offering
commercial
performance
off-the-shelf
ranging from
servers (COTS).
10 Mb/s to 100
Gb/s.

For information, see the SDX

For information, hardware For For For
see MPX hardware documentation and Manageme information, information, information,
documentation and M nt Service configuration see VPX see Citrix ADC see Citrix ADC
PX feature documentation. deployment CPX BLX
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Citrix ADC MPX Citrix ADC SDX
VPX CPX BLX
(hardware) (hardware)
(software) (software) (software)

configuration documentatio documentatio documentatio

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For information on Citrix ADC validated reference designs, see Validated Reference
Designs.