Supportability matrix for Citrix ADC cluster
Clustering in the Citrix ADC appliance supports a wide-spread of features in Citrix ADC configurations.
The following table lists the Citrix ADC appliance configurations and also provides the status of the features across releases.
Important
The “Node-level” entry in the table indicates that the feature is supported only on individual cluster nodes.
Cluster Configuration | 10.5 | 11.0 | 11.1 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 13.0 |
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SSL FIPS | No | No | No | No | No | No |
SSL Certificate Bundle | No | No | No | No | No | No |
SSL interception | NA | NA | NA | No | No | No |
Content switching actions; Note: The content switching feature is supported from NetScaler 10.1 onwards. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Policy-based logging for content switching policies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Rate limiting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Action analytics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Citrix SD-WAN load balancing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
GSLB | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RTSP | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
DNSSEC | No | No | No | No | No | No |
DNS64 | No | No | No | No | No | No |
FTP | No | Yes; Note: Supported from NetScaler 11.0 Build 62.x onwards. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TFTP | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Connection mirroring | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Integrated caching | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Large shared cache | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Application firewall | Node-level | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
HTTP Denial-of-Service Protection (HDOSP) | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Priority queuing (PQ) | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Sure connect (SC) | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
AppQoE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Surge protection | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
MPTCP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Striped SNIPs | Yes | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. |
MSR | Yes | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. |
IS-IS (IPv4 and IPv6) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Jumbo Frames | Yes | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
IP-IP tunneling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Link load balancing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
FIS (Failover Interface Set) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Link redundancy (LR) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NAT46 | No | No | No | No | No | No |
NAT64 | No | No | No | No | No | No |
RNAT6 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
LSN/CGNAT | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
IPv6 ReadyLogo | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Traffic domains | Yes | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. |
Route monitor | No | No | Yes; Only with DR. | Yes; Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. | Yes Note: Supported in L2 clusters. Not supported in L3 clusters. |
GRE tunneling (CB) | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Layer 2 mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Net profiles | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
HTTPS callout | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
AAA-TM | Node-level | Node-level | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
AppFlow | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Web Insight | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
HDX Insight | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
VMAC/VRRP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NetScaler Push | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Stateful Connection Failover | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Graceful Shutdown | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
DBS Autoscale | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
DSR using TOS | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Finer Startup-RR Control | Node-level | Node-level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
XML XSM | No | No | No | No | No | No |
DHCP RA | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Bridge Group | Yes; Note: Supported from NetScaler 10.5 Build 52.1115.e onwards. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Network Bridge | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Web Interface on Citrix ADC (WIonNS) | No | Yes (check FAQ); Note: Supported from NetScaler 11.0 Build 62.x onwards. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
EdgeSight Monitoring | No | No | Deprecated | Deprecated | Deprecated | Deprecated |
Metrics tables - Local | No | No | No | No | No | No |
DNS Caching | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Call Home | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Citrix Gateway ICA Proxy mode | Node-level | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Citrix Gateway (SSL VPN / full VPN and clientless VPN) | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level | Node-Level |
Citrix CloudBridge Connector | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Policy Based Routing (PBR/PBR6) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Policy Based Routing (PBR/PBR6) with LLB virtual server as next hop | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Subscriber awareness | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Dynamic Routing | No | Yes with v4 protocol support | Yes with v6 protocols (ospfv3, RIPng, ISIS6, BGP6) support | Yes with v6 protocols (ospfv3, RIPng, ISIS6, BGP6) support | Yes with v6 protocols (ospfv3, RIPng, ISIS6, BGP6) support | Yes with v6 protocols (ospfv3, RIPng, ISIS6, BGP6) support |
SYSLOG-TCP, load balancing of syslog servers, SNIP support, and FQDN support for syslog | No | No | Yes; Note: Supported from NetScaler 11.1 Build 54.16 onwards. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bot management | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
VXLAN | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Also, the following Citrix ADC configurations are supported:
Load balancing, load balancing persistency, DNS load balancing, SIP, maxClient, Spillover (connection and dynamic). Spillover based on bandwidth, DataStream, Compression control, Content filtering, TCP buffering, Cache redirection, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). Client Keep-alive, Basic networking (IPv4 and IPv6), OSPF (IPv4 and IPv6), RIP (IPv4 and IPv6), RIP (IPv4 and IPv6). VLAN, ICMP, Fragmentation, MBF, ACL, Simple ACL, MSR, Path MTU discovery, IP-IP, SNMP, Policies (classic and advanced). Rewrite, Responder, HTTP callout, Web server logging, Audit logging (NSLOG and syslog). USIP, Location commands, HTML injection, NITRO API, AppExpert, KRPC.