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White Paper Citrix Application Delivery Management Simplify operations, gain insight and improve troubleshooting of application delivery infrastructure Citrix | Citrix Application Delivery Management 2 New applications come quickly and application Citrix Application delivery infrastructure is constantly changing. Delivery Management For all the potential benefits that cloud provides, including agility, scalability, security, and cost savings, Simplify operations, gain insight and the truth remains that it can be difficult or impossible to get visibility into your workloads—let alone effectively improve troubleshooting of application manage them—when you are running applications delivery infrastructure across cloud and on-premises. There is a desperate need to unify application delivery consistently across all environments. This is the only Cloud is transforming way to achieve the desired outcome of “define once and application delivery deploy everywhere” that will help business reach the speed and agility it needs to transform. Applications are at the heart of the modern business. They control everything that happens in the business. We effectively live in an application economy and the Citrix Application Delivery application is synonymous with productivity, growth strategy and user experience. Management (ADM): A single pane Users are changing the way that applications are of glass for end-to-end Application consumed. Customers want the application and data Delivery Management across hybrid delivered to them when it is convenient. They want it on the device they choose and they want it fast. This multi-cloud environments is driving the importance of customer experience and An effective Application Delivery Management system hence the importance of application delivery. must do more than provide monitoring of application delivery controllers (ADCs). It must bring together As business embraces digital transformation, all the aspects of the application and its delivery workloads and applications are being modernized. end-to-end into a single place to provide: Applications are moving into the cloud and businesses are becoming “application first”. But this journey • Orchestration to application first is filled with silos which create • Configuration complexity and fragmentation, which slows the ability • Automation to innovate and respond to changing market conditions. • Actionable Insight • Faster Troubleshooting • Infrastructure silos: Different infrastructure • Machine Learning Enabled Analytics environments have varying approaches to architectures • Cloud silos: Private clouds differ from public and each Configuration must take an application-first public cloud has a distinctive set of services approach and be made easier, faster, consistent • Applications silos: Applications themselves are and automated, wherever possible. Insight must widely disparate in architectures—e.g. 3-tier web, help you understand the health and performance of, microservices-based not only your ADC estate, but the applications Citrix | Citrix Application Delivery Management 3 themselves and the experience of the users that Orchestration consume your applications. It should cover their security posture and show how you can improve user When deploying new applications or adapting to change experience. Troubleshooting should be proactive and via scaling there is frequently a need to orchestrate let you know of challenges before they become an network services on the ADC. Citrix ADM allows issue. Any tool must allow administrators to identify orchestration through integration with many of the anomalies easily and be interactive so that it is possible common cloud and SDN platforms, including: to drill down to remediate more quickly. • VMware vCenter/vSphere, Cisco Application Centric Only Citrix ADM provides an intuitive, comprehensive Infrastructure (ACI) platform that gives you a single pane of glass to • OpenStack holistically view and manage your application delivery • Cloud native ecosystem: integration with Mesos/ infrastructure across: Marathon and Kubernetes • Any application: Three-tier web and cloud native Cisco ACi • Any data center environment: On-premises, public, Citrix ADM integration with Cisco’s Application Centric private, and hybrid architecture allows L4-7 functionality for application • Any ADC form factor: Physical, virtual, cloud, delivery to be automated and handled by Citrix ADC to and containerized speed up configuration and reduce errors. With Citrix ADM you can license, configure, manage, and analyze all your Citrix ADCs wherever they VMware vCenter/vSphere reside and proactively monitor the health, usage, Citrix ADM integrates with VMware vCenter and vSphere and performance of your applications, troubleshoot virtualization platform to automate the deployment, problems faster and gain intuitive insights from configuration, and management of Citrix ADC services. a single place. This allows the VMware admin to deploy Citrix ADC services faster. Cloud-like agility with OpenStack Citrix ADM enables OpenStack users to use Neutron enterprise-grade control LBaaS on the OpenStack platform to configure load balancing services and implement them on Citrix ADC. Adapting to change is vital to the modern business. This means deploying new applications when required Cloud native ecosystem (Mesos/Marathon or scaling with demand. Until now, configuration has and Kubernetes) been a manual process that is time consuming and error-prone. It has been fraught with uncertainty–has Citrix ADM integrates with the popular container the config saved? Is it backwardly compatible? Will it orchestration systems (Mesos/Marathon and survive an upgrade? Can I push similar configurations Kubernetes) to allow the rapid deployment and across multiple ADC instances? Citrix ADM brings clarity configuration of Citrix ADC CPX instances as containers and control and automation to the process of application in your container clusters. delivery configuration. Citrix | Citrix Application Delivery Management 4 Make ADC configuration easy, StyleBooks are application-centric and composable. That is, you can re-use StyleBooks as components consistent and error free in other StyleBooks to build complex configs from Instead of directly configuring your ADCs, Citrix ADM simple building blocks. This makes application delivery allows you to define logical configuration jobs and configuration faster and easier. have them pushed to the ADCs that require them, Single touch config across hybrid multi-cloud wherever they reside in your infrastructure. This way, you know your config is committed successfully, Application configurations can be abstracted by saved, backed up and can be restored. This reduces defining parameters, which Citrix ADM prompts you to config errors and gives you confidence your input at deployment time. This means you can deploy applications will be delivered correctly. applications across multiple infrastructures quickly, easily and consistently or migrate applications from Config jobs on-prem to a cloud when necessary. You can create config jobs as a file by inputting a The flexible nature of StyleBooks and their versioning set of CLI commands or, more simply, by recording capability mean that you can speed up deployments, an ADC config session. This can then be saved and reduce mistakes and maintain tighter control across reused. It makes configuration easier and dramatically all your applications no matter their architecture or reduces mistakes. deployment environment. This is a significant step towards single touch, “define once, deploy everywhere”. Config audit Centralization of configs mean that you can easily audit Automated scale on demand—save them for compliance against defined corporate policies. money by only deploying resources With Config audit you can stay ahead of deviations. For when you need them example, you can: To meet customer demand, it is important to scale • Monitor for missing security checks up and down automatically. Citrix ADM Autoscale • Assess the SSL settings are in scope with functionality continually assesses the load on the Citrix corporate policies ADCs and scales the resources accordingly. Citrix ADM • Ensure that there are no ADC instances with incorrect autoscaling enables: cipher settings • High availability of applications: Auto-scaling ensures Citrix ADM will also automatically inform you of any that your application always has the correct number config drift that might occur so you can stay ahead of of Citrix ADCs to handle traffic demand and to stay up issues from unauthorized or incorrect changes. and running at all times • Zero-touch configuration: Citrix ADM continuously These and other tools combine on Citrix ADM to monitors your application and adds or removes Citrix help promote a simpler management environment ADCs instances and the corresponding configurations for your ADCs. and licenses dynamically depending on the demand. This scenario typically takes weeks to accomplish in a Logical, composable StyleBooks for non-autoscale environment faster, automated configuration • Better cost management: Dynamic Citrix ADC provisioning and deprovisioning with Citrix ADM helps Citrix ADM StyleBooks are simple tools that allow you you save money by launching ADC instances only to logically define a configuration for your Citrix ADCs. when they are needed Citrix | Citrix Application Delivery Management 5 This ensures that you always have the right resources Pooled capacity license management deployed to meet the