We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and Fortinet FortiADC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Provides resiliency for applications that reside on servers, as well as connectivity to remote applications."
"The solution is very stable. We don't have any downtime or issues of that nature."
"The load balancing is one of the most valuable features."
"This solution allows the user to easily scale out application delivery, and provides secure remote access."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"I found that the GUI was very easy to to navigate. If you were looking for something, it was fairly easy to find. There's a lot of third-party documentation and information available online as well."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"The NetScaler appliance has provided a lot of customers with greater high availability for their enterprise applications within a single site and across multiple locations."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"Our experience has been very good, in terms of performance, and securing our application infrastructure."
"It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"I have Big-IP change and control manager, which give me the roll back option. Therefore, I can view the last things which happened on the device."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"The setup for Citrix NetScaler has room for improvement. It could be easier."
"They can improve the scalability and the multi-tenancy feature. We recently tried to configure an authentication, and we ran into some issues while using the web-based GUI. It was very slow when you log in with your credentials in the web-based GUI. Each time we clicked on the menu, it tried to do the authentication. It works properly in the console."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the user interface because sometimes it can be complicated."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
"Citrix ADC can be really complex. It isn't very simple like some other appliances that I've worked with. You need a lot of skill and experience to manage it. I'm not talking about a year or two. You need at least four years to understand it very well. It is not that easy to learn. They should make it a lot simpler for users to understand the management of it. They can also provide some additional training. The material they have on the site is not sufficient enough for you to understand how to manage it. Their training is expensive, and not everyone has the funds and experience for it. Citrix isn't very popular around these parts of the world. So, it can use some more marketing, sales, enlightenment, and advertisement. These could bring more market for them. Basically, there are just a few companies that really go for Citrix. Most of the companies go for VMware because they marketed themselves more than Citrix. There isn't much difference between Citrix and VMware. VMware is a little more robust than Citrix. Citrix has focused more on desktops rather than server virtualization, and that's the advantage VMware has over Citrix. Citrix also needs to educate and inform users about the infrastructure that is supported with a version. Currently, if the customers don't look at the datasheet, they might miss this important information."
"Integration with other third party providers and third party applications could be better because it can be a bit complex at present."
"Currently, the support team's responsiveness is lacking, and the technical personnel on calls often seem unfamiliar with the issues or inadequately trained."
"I would like to see more integration for single sign-on."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"The initial setup can take a long time."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
"There is a need for a more modular version to concentrate on the current monolithic structure of both the virtual and hardware versions."
"There are issues with F5 BIG-IP but they are minor issues not affecting production and services. Sometimes the operations and the facility systems fail. However, there is an alert action from the windows. An ordeal for the manager."
"The auto logout feature after three minutes is terrible. I wish they would make that longer, since it is not a feature that we can change."
"Reporting could be improved and configuration made easier."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
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