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Citrix SD-WAN VPX Standard Edition

June 19, 2020

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Citrix SD-WAN Standard Edition is a virtual Citrix SD-WAN appliance that can be hosted on Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX or ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Amazon AWS-virtualization platforms. An SD-WAN VPX appliance supports most of the features of a physical Standard Edition or WANOP appliances.

Because SD-WAN SE Edition VPX is a virtual machine, you can deploy your choice of hardware, exactly where you need it, and in combination it with other virtual machines – servers, VPN units, or other appliances – to create a unit that precisely suits your needs.

SD-WAN Standard Edition VPX software is available as:

A Xen virtual machine running under XenServer 6.5 SP1.
A VMware vSphere virtual machine running under ESX/ESXi 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5.

When a newly installed SD-WAN SE VPX virtual machine is up and running, you configure as you would configure a physical SD-WAN SE appliance, using the same configuration screens.

Differences between WANOP VPX and Physical SD-WAN WANOP Appliances

An SD-WAN WANOP VPX virtual appliance is similar to an SD-WAN Repeater 8500 series appliance, including support for the SD-WAN Plug-in and links of up to 45 mbps. Following are the key differences:

Except for Amazon EC2 instances, licensing via remote license servers is mandatory for retail licenses. Local licensing is available for non-retail licenses, such as evaluation and VPX Express licenses. For Amazon EC2 instances, you can use either Citrix licensing or select a product with built-in licensing for the bandwidth limit you desire (2, 10, 20, or 45 Mbps).
SD-WAN VPX obtains its SD-WAN Plug-in licenses from the remote license server (except for SD-WAN VPX for Amazon Web Services, which does not support Plug-ins). Plug-ins connecting to multiple virtual appliances consume only a single Plug-in license, not one license per appliance, as long as all virtual appliances use the same license server.
The SD-WAN LCD front-panel display is not supported.
The RS-232 serial command interface is not supported.
Multiple accelerated bridges are not supported.
Ethernet bypass cards are not supported.
Group mode is not supported.
SD-WAN High-availability mode is not supported. (XenServer high availability and vSphere high availability are supported.)
Three ports are supported (apA.1, apA.2, and Primary), except for Amazon Web Services instances, which support only a single port.

For step-by-step instructions on installing and deploying an SD-WAN VPX-SE, see the following:

Installing VPX-SE on VMware ESXi – See Installing and Deploying an SD-WAN VPX-SE on ESXi.
Installing SD-WAN VPX-SE on XenServer – The procedures for installing an SD-WAN Virtual WAN (Standard Edition) VPX (SD-WAN VPX-SE) and an SD-WAN WAN Optimization appliance (WANOP VPX) are similar. However, there are some critical differences, as outlined in Differences Between an SD-WAN VPX-VW and WAN OP VPX Installation.

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Citrix SD-WAN VPX Standard Edition

June 19, 2020

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