Configuring Citrix NetScaler^® for load balancing

The configuration of NetScaler load balancing can be done via two methods—from the GUI and the CLI. Now, if you have been in IT for a while, you know that GUI versus CLI is one of the most ancient debates of all times in both the Windows and the Linux world. Some people simply refuse to use GUIs because, as they say (and rightly so), the command line gives you a lot more control over an OS and filesystem, and the ability to script and automate tasks. Others stay as far away from CLIs as possible and prefer GUIs because of their visual presentation, which is generally more intuitive to new users. Throughout this chapter, we mostly use the graphic interface, but if you want to dive deeper into the various things that the NetScaler command shell can do for you, I suggest that you take a look at Implementing NetScaler VPX™, Marius Sandbu, Packt Publishing, which, in my personal opinion, is a great cookbook to get started with NetScaler. For the...