
If you have a license file select Upload licenses files from a local computer and click BrowseĪfter uploading the license file, click Reboot

Good explanation about the subnet IP Address within this wizard, even an infographic is displayed, nice! Fill in the Subnet IP Address and click DoneĬlick on Step 3 to configure Host Name, DNS IP Address, and Time Zoneįill in the NetScaler Host Name, the DNS IP Address and the correct Time Zone. Login with User Name nsroot and Password nsrootĬitrix NetScaler 10.5 has a very improved First-time Setup Wizard making it possible to setup the NetScaler in a few clicks. After that the NetScaler will rebootĪfter rebooting the NetScaler, open a browser and browse to the NSIP address (management interface IP address) you entered in the previous step.


Fill in the following information:Ĭhoice option 4 to Save and quit. Turn on the NetScaler and open the NetScaler console on the hypervisor. Let’s get started…Īfter downloading the NetScaler sources from the Citrix site and uploading it to the hypervisor it’s time to walk through the console configuration wizard. Good news, with NetScaler 10.5 you no longer need java, which is a really big improvement! There are a lot more improvements like a SSL certificate chain check (see later in this blog) and a very improved setup wizard. Also the steps of how to install Citrix StoreFront are not covered, you can find these steps in my StoreFront blog ( click here). The steps for downloading and uploading the NetScaler to the hypervisor are not covered in this blog, for these steps see my previous NetScaler blog ( click here).

The Access Gateway function needs a SSL certificate, make sure you can create a SSL certificate by a Certificate Authority (CA) and that there is an external DNS record in place.įor this blog a used NetScaler VPX for XenServer 10.5 Build 50.9 as source. I will also show you the steps that needs to be made within Citrix StoreFront 2.5.2 configuration.īefore starting with the installation and configuration make sure there is a license file for the NetScaler and that there are at least three IP address available for the configuration. Citrix released the Citrix NetScaler 10.5, in this blog I will show you how to setup this new NetScaler, including creating and installing a SSL certificate and how to create and configure the Gateway feature.
