NetScaler VPX

AWS-VPX support matrix

The following sections list the supported NetScaler VPX offerings, AWS regions, instance types, and services.

Supported VPX offerings on AWS

Supported VPX offerings
NetScaler VPX - Customer Licensed
NetScaler VPX FIPS - Customer Licensed
NetScaler VPX FIPS ENA - Customer Licensed

Supported AWS regions

Region Region code
US West us-west-1, us-west-2
US East us-east-1, us-east-2
Asia Pacific ap-south-1, ap-southeast-4, ap-northeast-2, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-east-1, ap-northeast-3, ap-southeast-3, ap-south-2
Canada ca-central-1, ca-west-1
EU eu-central-1, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-south-1, eu-north-1
South America sa-east-1
Israel il-central-1
Middle East me-south-1, me-central-1
Africa af-south-1
AWS GovCloud us-gov-east-1, us-gov-west-1
US Intelligence us-iso-east-1, us-isob-east-1
China cn-north-1, cn-northwest-1

Supported AWS instance types

NetScaler recommends the following AWS instance types:

  • M6i and C5n series for marketplace editions or bandwidth-based pool licensing.
VPX with Pooled or Flexed licensing (Bandwidth licenses) Recommended AWS instance
Up to 200 Mbps m6i.xlarge
1–5 Gbps m6i.2xlarge
5–8 Gbps c5n.4xlarge
8–25 Gbps c5n.9xlarge

To determine the right instance for your specific needs based on metrics such as packets per second or SSL transaction rates, contact your NetScaler representative for guidance.

Category Instance families
General Purpose M3, M4, M5, M5a, M5n, M6i, M7i, M8i, T2, T3a
Compute Optimized C4, C5, C5n, C6in
Memory Optimized R7iz
Storage Optimized D2

Supported AWS services

Supported AWS services
EC2: Launches ADC instances.
Lambda: Invokes NetScaler VPX NITRO APIs during provisioning of NetScaler VPX instances from CFT.
VPC and VPC ingress routing: VPC creates isolated networks in which ADC can be launched. VPC ingress routing is used in the firewall load balancing solution.
Route53: Distributes traffic across all the NetScaler VPX nodes in the NetScaler Autoscale solution.
ELB: Distributes traffic across all the NetScaler VPX nodes in the NetScaler Autoscale solution.
Cloudwatch: Monitors performance and system parameters for NetScaler VPX instance.
AWS Autoscaling: Used for back-end server autoscaling.
Cloud formation: CloudFormation templates are used to deploy NetScaler VPX instances.
Simple Queue Service (SQS): Monitors scale up and scale down events in back-end autoscaling.
Simple Notification Service (SNS): Monitors scale up and scale down events in back-end autoscaling.
Identity and Access Management (IAM): Provides access to AWS services and resources.
AWS Outposts: Provisions NetScaler VPX instances in AWS Outposts.
AWS-VPX support matrix