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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.)