In almost every production environment you will implement Citrix Storefront on more than one servers to provide high availability (HA) and for load balancing (LB). In this step-by-step guide I will show you how implement Citrix Storefront 2.5.2 on multiple servers and how to configure the load balancing on a NetScaler 10.5 from beginning to the end.
Citrix released the Citrix NetScaler 10.5, in this blog I will show you how to setup this new NetScaler, including creating and installing a SSL certificate and how to create and configure the Gateway feature. I will also show you the steps that needs to be made within Citrix StoreFront 2.5.2 configuration. Before starting with the installation and configuration make sure there is a license file for the NetScaler and that there are at least three IP address available for the configuration. The Access Gateway function needs a SSL certificate, make sure you can create a SSL certificate by a Certificate Authority (CA) and that there is an external DNS record in place.
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about Configuring NetScaler Access Gateway VPX and Citrix StoreFront. This blog was based on the NetScaler Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 10.0 with Citrix StoreFront 1.2. Last week Citrix released NetScaler ADC VPX 10.1 at Synergy 2013. Of course I want to look at it right away. The first thing that noticed me is the improved interface and the new welcome wizard (see screenshots below).
NOTE: An up-to-date blog with NetScaler 10.5 and Storefront 2.5.2 can be found here! In this blog I will describe step-by-step how to configure the Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway VPX with Citrix StoreFront. Including uploading the VPX to the XenServer, configuring the NetScaler, creating and installing the SSL certificate, creating the Access Gateway and the configuration of it, the redirection to the Citrix StoreFront server and finally the configuration of Citrix StoreFront server itself. Before you begin make sure you have Java Runtime installed and that you have a license file for the NetScaler. The Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway needs a SSL certificate, make sure you can create a key by a CA. For this blog I will use and describe the step for creating the key by Go Daddy.
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