NetScaler Console service

Minimum and maximum capacity for Flexed and Pooled licensing

NetScaler Flexed licensing uses NetScaler Console configured as a license server to manage Flexed licenses: bandwidth pool licenses and instance pool licenses.

When checking out licenses from bandwidth and instance pool, NetScaler form factor and hardware model number on a zero-capacity hardware determines:

  • The minimum bandwidth and the number of instances that a NetScaler instance must check out before being functional.

  • The maximum bandwidth and the number of instances that a NetScaler can check out.

  • The minimum bandwidth unit for each bandwidth check out. The minimum bandwidth unit is the smallest unit of bandwidth that a NetScaler has to check out from a pool. Any check-out must be an integer multiple of the minimum bandwidth unit. For example, if the minimum bandwidth unit of a NetScaler is 1 Gbps, 1000 Mbps can be checked out, but not 200 Mbps or 150.5 Gbps. The minimum bandwidth unit is different from the minimum bandwidth requirement. A NetScaler instance can only operate after it is licensed with at least the minimum bandwidth. Once the minimum bandwidth is met, the instance can check out more bandwidth in multiples of the minimum bandwidth unit.

Tables 1 through 5 summarize the maximum bandwidth/instances, minimum bandwidth/instances, and minimum bandwidth unit for all supported NetScaler instances. Table 6 summarizes the license requirement for different form factors for all supported NetScaler instances. The following tables refer to system requirements.

Note:

The minimum bandwidth checkout unit for NetScaler CPX/BLX/VPX is 10 Mbps. The minimum bandwidth checkout unit for NetScaler MPX/SDX is 1 Gbps.

Table 1. Supported Flexed capacity for MPX

Product line Minimum bandwidth (Gbps) Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum bandwidth unit
MPX 5900Z 1 10 1 Gbps
MPX 8900Z 5 30 1 Gbps
MPX 8900Z FIPS 5 20 1 Gbps
MPX 9100Z 10 95 1 Gbps
MPX 9100Z FIPS 10 95 1 Gbps
MPX 14000Z 20 100 1 Gbps
MPX 14000Z-40G 20 100 1 Gbps
MPX 14000Z-40S 40 100 1 Gbps
MPX 14000Z FIPS 30 80 1 Gbps
MPX 15000Z 20 120 1 Gbps
MPX 15000Z-50G 20 120 1 Gbps
MPX 15000Z FIPS 30 120 1 Gbps
MPX 16000Z 30 250 1 Gbps
MPX 22000Z 40 120 1 Gbps
MPX 24000Z 100 150 1 Gbps
MPX 25000Z 100 160 1 Gbps
MPX 25000Z-40G 100 200 1 Gbps
MPX 26000Z 100 200 1 Gbps
MPX 26000Z-50S 100 200 1 Gbps
MPX 26000Z-100G 100 200 1 Gbps

Table 2A. Supported Flexed capacity for NetScaler SDX version earlier than build 13.0-47.x

Product line Minimum bandwidth (Gbps) Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum instances Maximum instances Minimum bandwidth unit
SDX 8900Z 10 30 2 7 1 Gbps
SDX 14000Z 20 100 5 25 1 Gbps
SDX 14000Z-40G 40 100 20 25 1 Gbps
SDX 15000Z 20 120 5 55 1 Gbps
SDX 15000Z-50G 20 120 5 55 1 Gbps
SDX 22000Z 40 120 80 80 1 Gbps
SDX 24000Z 100 150 80 80 1 Gbps
SDX 25000Z 100 200 20 115 1 Gbps
SDX 25000Z-40G 100 200 20 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z 100 200 20 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z-50S 100 200 20 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z-100G 100 200 20 115 1 Gbps

Table 2B. Supported Flexed capacity for NetScaler SDX version 13 (build 13.0-47.x and later), version 13.1 (build earlier than 51.x), and version 14.1 (build earlier 12.x)

Product line Minimum bandwidth (Gbps) Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum instances Maximum instances Minimum bandwidth unit
SDX 8900Z 5 30 1 7 1 Gbps
SDX 9100Z 10 95 2 7 1 Gbps
SDX 14000Z 10 100 2 25 1 Gbps
SDX 14000Z-40G 20 100 10 25 1 Gbps
SDX 15000Z 10 120 2 55 1 Gbps
SDX 15000Z-50G 10 120 2 55 1 Gbps
SDX 16000Z 15 250 10 55 1 Gbps
SDX 22000Z 20 120 40 80 1 Gbps
SDX 24000Z 50 150 40 80 1 Gbps
SDX 25000Z 50 200 10 115 1 Gbps
SDX 25000Z-40G 50 200 10 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z 50 200 10 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z-50S 50 200 10 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z-100G 50 200 10 115 1 Gbps

Table 2C. Supported Flexed capacity for NetScaler SDX version 13.1 (build 51.x and later), and version 14.1 (build 12.x and later)

Product line Minimum bandwidth (Gbps) Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum instances Maximum instances Minimum bandwidth unit
SDX 8900Z 5 30 1 7 1 Gbps
SDX 9100Z 10 95 1 7 1 Gbps
SDX 14000Z 10 100 1 25 1 Gbps
SDX 14000Z-40G 20 100 1 25 1 Gbps
SDX 15000Z 10 120 1 55 1 Gbps
SDX 15000Z-50G 10 120 1 55 1 Gbps
SDX 16000Z 15 250 1 55 1 Gbps
SDX 22000Z 20 120 1 80 1 Gbps
SDX 24000Z 50 150 1 80 1 Gbps
SDX 25000Z 50 200 1 115 1 Gbps
SDX 25000Z-40G 50 200 1 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z 50 200 1 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z-50S 50 200 1 115 1 Gbps
SDX 26000Z-100G 50 200 1 115 1 Gbps

Notes:

  • The minimum purchase quantity can be different from the minimum system requirement.

  • On NetScaler SDX running build 14.1-12.x and later, with a Flexed license, the restriction to check out a minimum number of instance licenses is removed. That is, you can check out a minimum of one instance license.

Table 3. Supported minimum/maximum bandwidth and minimum/maximum instances for NetScaler CPX instances

Product line Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum bandwidth (Mbps) Minimum instances Maximum instances Minimum bandwidth unit
CPX 10 10 1 1 10 Mbps

Table 4. Supported minimum/maximum bandwidth and minimum/maximum instances for NetScaler VPX instances on Hypervisors and Cloud services

Hypervisor/Cloud Service Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum bandwidth (Mbps) Minimum instances Maximum instances Minimum bandwidth unit
Citrix Hypervisor 40 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps
VMware ESXI 100 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps
Linux KVM 100 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps
Microsoft Hyper-V 3 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps
AWS 30 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps
Azure 10 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps
Google Cloud 10 Gbps 10 Mbps 1 1 10 Mbps

Note

The minimum purchase quantity is different from the minimum system requirement.

Table 5. Supported minimum/maximum bandwidth and minimum/maximum instances for NetScaler BLX instances

Product line Maximum bandwidth (Gbps) Minimum bandwidth (Mbps) Minimum instances Maximum instances Minimum bandwidth unit
BLX 100 10 1 1 10 Mbps

Table 6. Zero capacity license requirement for different form factors

Product line Zero Capacity Hardware
MPX License required
SDX License required
VPX -
CPX -
BLX -