Click the save icon in the upper right corner of the

Click the Save icon in the upper-right corner of the GUI.
16.
If prompted, click Yes to confirm.
Exercise Summary
In this exercise, you created an HA pair using NetScaler 1 and NetScaler 2 virtual machines. You then
tested the failover function by disabling the network connection for the primary appliance, causing the
secondary to take over. You then reactivated the network connection and caused a force failover to make
NetScaler 1 the primary appliance again.

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Module Overview
The following topics cover configuration and installation information for NetScaler traffic
management features:
Cache Redirection Analyzes incoming requests and forwards the requests for
already cached data to cache servers. Dynamic HTTP requests
and non-cacheable requests are forwarded to the origin servers.
Cache redirection is a policy-based feature.
Content Switching Analyzes client requests and redirects the requests to specific
servers on the basis of geographical area, authorization
credentials, and device from which the request was initiated.
DataStream Ensures optimal distribution of traffic from the application and web
servers to the database servers. Enables you to segment traffic
according to information in the SQL query and on the basis of
database names, user names, character sets, and packet size.
Domain Name System
Provides authoritative domain name server (ADNS server)
functionality for a domain. The NetScaler appliance functions as a
DNS end resolver and forwarder, and also helps in name
resolution when fully qualified domain names are not configured.
Firewall Load Balancing Distributes the traffic across multiple firewalls, providing fault
tolerance, increased throughput, and high availability.
Global Server Load
Balancing
Enables disaster recovery and ensures continuous availability of
applications by protecting against points of failure in a wide area
network (WAN).
Link Load Balancing Load balances outbound traffic across multiple Internet
connections to transmit packets seamlessly over the best possible
link.
Load Balancing Distributes user requests for web pages and other protected
applications across multiple servers to prevent server overloading
and failure. Load balancing also provides fault tolerance.
SSL Offload and
Acceleration
Offloads SSL processing from a server to the NetScaler appliance
to accelerate SSL transactions.