Citrix SD-WAN Series User Manual

Citrix SD-WAN Platforms
Citrix SD-WAN VPX Standard Edition
June 19, 2020
Citrix SD-WAN Standard Edition is a virtual Citrix SD-WAN appliance that can be hosted on Citrix
XenServer, VMware ESX or ESXi, Microso Hyper-V, and Amazon AWS-virtualization platforms. An
SD-WAN VPX appliance supports most of the features of a physical Standard Edition or WANOP
appliances.
Because SD-WAN SE Edition VPX is a virtual machine, you can deploy your choice of hardware, exactly
where you need it, and in combination it with other virtual machines – servers, VPN units, or other
appliances – to create a unit that precisely suits your needs.
SD-WAN Standard Edition VPX soware is available as:
• A Xen virtual machine running under XenServer 6.5 SP1.
• A VMware vSphere virtual machine running under ESX/ESXi 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5.
When a newly installed SD-WAN SE VPX virtual machine is up and running, you configure as you would
configure a physical SD-WAN SE appliance, using the same configuration screens.
Dierences between WANOP VPX and Physical SD-WAN WANOP Appliances
An SD-WAN WANOP VPX virtual appliance is similar to an SD-WAN Repeater 8500 series appliance,
including support for the
SD-WAN Plug-in and links of up to 45 mbps. Following are the key dierences:
• Except for Amazon EC2 instances, licensing via remote license servers is mandatory for retail
licenses. Local licensing is available for non-retail licenses, such as evaluation and VPX Express
licenses. For Amazon EC2 instances, you can use either Citrix licensing or select a product with
built-in licensing for the bandwidth limit you desire (2, 10, 20, or 45 Mbps).
• SD-WAN VPX obtains its SD-WAN Plug-in licenses from the remote license server (except for SD-
WAN VPX for Amazon Web Services, which does not support Plug-ins). Plug-ins connecting to
multiple virtual appliances consume only a single Plug-in license, not one license per appliance,
as long as all virtual appliances use the same license server.
• The SD-WAN LCD front-panel display is not supported.
• The RS-232 serial command interface is not supported.
• Multiple accelerated bridges are not supported.
• Ethernet bypass cards are not supported.
• Group mode is not supported.
• SD-WAN High-availability mode is not supported. (XenServer high availability and vSphere high
availability are supported.)
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Citrix SD-WAN Series Specifications

General

Product Type	SD-WAN Appliance
Product Series	SD-WAN
Network Interfaces	Gigabit Ethernet
Performance	Varies by model
Form Factor	Rackmount
Management	CLI
Throughput	Varies by model
Interfaces	Ethernet
VPN Support	IPsec, SSL VPN
High Availability	Yes
Security Features	Firewall
WAN Optimization	Application Acceleration, Data Deduplication, Compression