Access Gateway Virtual Appliance now for download @ Citrix
Using XenApp to provide remote access to your applications its likely you’ll be using the free software-based Secure Gateway feature. Lot’s of companies don’t want to spent lots of money to a Netscaler with CAGEE 9.x on it because it’s an enterprise solution and to expensive for the smaller companies.
Citrix suggest that this virtual device is ideal for:
- Environments with limited rack space and infrastructure where consolidation of physical appliances is required. An Access Gateway VPX instance can be co-located with other virtual machines on a single server to reduce the overall infrastructure requirements.
- Reducing costs by cutting power consumption and standardizing all hardware in the data center to get the best pricing from server vendors.
- Minimizing downtime. XenServer capabilities such as XenMotion (dynamic workload relocation) and NIC bonding offer an ideal way to lessen the impact of hardware failures. Virtual appliances also eliminate the need for appliance replacements when failures occur.
- Creating a non-production environment for training and testing.
- Creating a highly available architecture.
- Future proofing your Citrix investment – bear in mind Secure Gateway does not support Citrix Receiver and XenDesktop where as Access Gateway VPX does.
Access Gateway VPX includes the new Access Gateway Platform License, plus one year of Subscription Advantage.
The initial release of Access Gateway VPX is based on Access Gateway 4.6.2, Standard Edition and is compatible with Citrix XenServer version 5.5
For more information catch up on:
Citrix Access Gateway VPX Reference Architecture
Getting Started with Access Gateway VPX
You can download the appliance from your mycitrix site (mycitrix account required) with the following link:
