A company has three departments with proprietary applications that must be load balanced on a Citrix ADC. The managers want to use the same IP address for their individual applications. What configuration enables this?

• A. Three SNIPs with the same IP address on a Citrix ADC
• B. Three different admin partitions that share a single IP address for all vServers
• C. Three different Citrix ADC devices that share an IP address
• D. Three different admin partitions that allow use of the same IP address for each load-balanced vServer on a Citrix ADC

Answer: (D)

The idea being tested is using multi-tenant separation to expose a single external IP for multiple load-balanced applications. By creating separate admin partitions on the Citrix ADC, you can place each department’s vServer in its own partition. Each partition hosts its own load-balanced vServer for its app, but all of these vServers can use the same VIP (external IP) because partitions isolate configuration and resources. Traffic arrives at the shared IP and is directed to the correct vServer based on the partition’s port or service configuration, so App A, App B, and App C can coexist under one IP without interfering with one another.

This approach keeps control and management separate for each department while delivering a single entry point. SNIPs aren’t used in this way, since they aren’t the mechanism for presenting shared apps on a single IP. Using multiple ADC devices wouldn’t provide the required shared single IP scenario, and an option that merely mentions partitions without tying it to per-vServer sharing wouldn’t explain how the same IP can serve distinct vServers.