Scenario: A company has three departments and wants to use the same IP address for their load-balanced applications. How can this be configured on the Citrix ADC?

• A. Configure three different Citrix ADCs that use the same IP address
• B. Configure three SNIPs with the same IP address on the Citrix ADC
• C. Configure three different admin partitions that allow the use of the same IP address for each load-balanced virtual server
• D. Configure three different load-balanced virtual servers with three different IP addresses on the ADC

Answer: (B)

The key idea is using SNIPs to reach backend servers in different networks while presenting a single front-end endpoint to clients. A SNIP is the IP the Citrix ADC uses to communicate with servers on a particular subnet. If three departments share the same IP address for their load-balanced apps, you can configure multiple SNIPs on the ADC that all use that same IP address but are associated with the different departmental subnets/VLANs. This setup lets the ADC route outbound traffic to the correct department’s servers using the shared address, while the front-end virtual IP that clients connect to remains consistent for all three departments.

This approach directly satisfies the requirement of using the same IP address for the load-balanced services, whereas other options would add extra appliances, rely on administrative partitions in ways they aren’t meant to handle, or require separate IPs for each vServer, which would defeat the goal of a single shared IP.