To achieve independent administration for three departments on a single Citrix ADC, which configuration isolates department-level administration most effectively?

• A. Dedicated routes in the admin partitions for each department
• B. Admin partitions that use dedicated VLANs
• C. Policy-based routes for each department in the nsroot partition
• D. A VIP in each partition, and bind a VLAN for the department

Answer: (B)

Isolating administration across departments on a single Citrix ADC hinges on separating both the admin domain and the management network. Admin partitions create separate, tenant-like spaces where each department’s admins, roles, and visibility are scoped to that partition. When you pair those partitions with dedicated VLANs, the management traffic and access for each department stay on its own network segment, so an admin in one department cannot reach or influence the admin space of another. This combination provides the strongest boundary for independent administration while still hosting everything on one device.

Other approaches rely more on routing or per-session bindings than on true admin-plane separation. Using routes inside partitions or keeping everything under a single nsroot window doesn’t prevent cross-department access at the management level. Assigning a VIP per partition with a VLAN may help segregate some traffic, but it doesn’t inherently enforce the same strict admin isolation and control boundaries that dedicated VLANs paired with admin partitions do.