We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, Loadbalancer.org, and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Very stable."
"It is the best product out there."
"I like the ease of use. It's easy to manage. I also like it's ease of use with virtualization technologies with applications."
"The maintenance of the solution is not complex."
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"My customers have told me that the performance of this solution is good."
"The solution was very easy to deploy."
"The solution is very stable. We don't have any downtime or issues of that nature."
"We now get notifications when pool members go down, and we eliminate our downtime by not sending traffic to downed pool members."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"It does what it’s supposed to do which is balancing an important intranet site we are using, so if one server dies, the second becomes active straight away."
"Existing customers are trying to migrate from the physical F5 load balancer to the AVI load balancer because it is scalable and easily managed."
"We have about 30,000 connections going through at any one time and it's fine, it doesn't seem to sweat. It doesn't get overloaded."
"Load balancing helps us distribute both incoming and outgoing data loads evenly among the servers, preventing overload on a single server."
"The support we have received from Loadbalancer.org has been good."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"It can be difficult to setup."
"If one device or switch fails, the failover to another device is not seamless which is painful."
"In every release - and it doesn't matter if it's a minor release or a major release - they keep moving things around and they keep changing the mechanism. So certain things can work in one version one way, and everything works really well, then when you upgrade it to the next version, it breaks everything because they have a new way of doing it."
"We had some bugs in the previous firmware. These were not big issues, but more testing on the firmware would be key to happier customers."
"Development team's response time could be better."
"The vendor provides frequent patches, however, the security of the website has room for improvement."
"The product provides some templates to integrate with applications like MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, SAP Enterprise Portal, and others. However, the last update for these templates was 2013 (lots of applications are running on versions newer then 2013)."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"We could enhance the security aspects of the load balancer."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"I would like a notification when a new version of the software is available. They told me to sign up for their newsletter, but I have not received any notification for a newer software version."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"The solution could be more robust."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be a better analysis when working with crypt issues. Right now, it is very manual; you load it into Alteon and it runs. It would be interesting to see a more dynamic process."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
