Configure a NetScaler VPX standalone instance on Oracle Public Cloud

NetScaler VPX configuration on Oracle Public Cloud involves the following tasks:

1. Upload a NetScaler VPX Image and Associate It with the Oracle Cloud Web Console.
2. Configure the VPX instance.
3. Configure NetScaler owned IP Addresses and an LB vServer.

Note

Before you start configuring a NetScaler instance, see the Prerequisites.

Upload a NetScaler VPX image and associate it with the Oracle Cloud Web console

After obtaining the raw.tar.gz file image from Citrix, associate it with the Oracle Web console as follows:

1. Launch cloud.oracle.com and click Sign In in the upper-right corner.

2. From the Cloud Account drop-down menu, select the appropriate data center and click My Services.

3. In the Enter your Identity Domain field, enter the identity domain that Oracle assigned to your account, and click Go.

4. Enter your user name and password and click Sign In.

5. From the Dashboard, click Compute > Open Service Console.

6. Click Images.

7. The Private Images page appears.

8. Click Upload Image.

9. Enter your password, and then click Continue.

10. The Upload Image page appears in a new tab.

11. In the Image File field, browse to select the raw.tar.gz image file that you want to upload.

12. In the Target Object field, enter the name of the object that the image file should be stored as in Oracle Storage Cloud Service.

13. Click Upload.

14. After the image is uploaded, it appears under Private Images.

15. Click the image and click Associate Image.

16. The Associate Image window appears.

17. Specify a name and description for the image that is being created.

18. Click Select File to select the file.

19. Click OK to associate the new image with the file.

For more information about uploading image files to Oracle cloud, see:   https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/stcomputecs/STCSG/GUID-799D6F6D-BDED-4DDE-9B3D-BE23BE5F687F.htm\#STCSG-GUID-799D6F6D-BDED-4DDE-9B3D-BE23BE5F687F

Configure a NetScaler instance

Complete these steps to a VPX instance.

1. Launch the Create Instance wizard to create instances. Select and enter the details in the Shape and Instance pages. For more information about how to create an instance, see Creating an Instance from the Instances Page.

2. In the Network page, clear the Shared Network check box and click Configure Interface > Create IP Network to create an IP network for the management IP (NIC 1/1) and click Create. Specify the other details in the Configure IP Network Interface window and click Save. Repeat the steps for NIC 1/2 and NIC 1/3. For more information, see IP Network Options at this page: Creating an Instance from the Instances Page.

Note

In Configure IP Network Interface,  select the Default Gateway check box.

Set Public IP Address to Auto Generated for NIC 1/1 and 1/2 and specify private IP addresses for all three NICs.

3. On the Storage page, you can attach existing storage volumes to your instance, if necessary, or create storage volumes and attach them to the instance. In this example, select the default storage.

4. On the Review page, verify the information that you’ve entered, and then click Create.

Monitor the status of the instance. When the status is shown as “Running,” the instance is ready

5. Create an IP Address Prefix Set. For more information about how to create an IP address prefix set, see Creating an IP Address Prefix Set.

6. Create Security Protocols. For more information about how to create a security protocol, see Creating a Security Protocol for IP Networks.

7. Create Security Rules. For more information about how to create a security rule for IP networks, see Creating a Security Rule for IP Networks.

Configure NetScaler owned IP addresses and an LB vServer

1. Configure the NetScaler owned IP addresses by using the NetScaler GUI or the command “add ns ip.” For more information, see Configuring NetScaler-Owned IP Addresses.

2. Configure the NetScaler instance as a load balancing virtual server (LB vServer). For more information, see Set up basic load balancing.