Citrix NetScaler Valuable Features
The most valuable feature of Citrix ADC is its ease of use.
View full review »One of its most valuable features is fundamental load balancing, supporting both basic load balancing and database teams.
View full review »Citrix NetScaler has its capabilities and benefits. From a security standpoint, It is a comprehensive solution in a single box. We also have additional features such as gateway and global service load balancing. Furthermore, there's a provision for expanding data capacity.
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Citrix NetScaler
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Citrix NetScaler. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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Richard Hussain
Solutions Architect, Virtualization
As an architect, I have deployed it in so many areas. Some like to use the SSL portion of it, others, they use the load-balancing. It does a lot more than what people use it for. The one feature that works really well is the SSL VPN. It's very easy to set up and you can go very granular with it. You can define what user groups get what kind of access and the management overhead is very low.
View full review »One of the most beneficial features for application delivery is its integration with Citrix Storefront, facilitating user logins and ensuring continuity during data center outages.
I can't speak much about NetScaler's security features as I'm not involved in managing them.
NetScaler's impact on operations has been significant, ensuring smooth traffic distribution and minimizing employee complaints about system performance.
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The web application firewall is one feature I found valuable in the solution.
View full review »The load balancing feature of this solution is very good.
View full review »The web application firewalling component is probably the most powerful feature as it can identify attacks on the network at an application level which is quite important. There is also good functionality where we use IP reputation and geofencing to mitigate threats from the outside world.
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reviewer2283573
Junior System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The reverse proxy for virtual apps and desktops, along with load balancing, stands out as the most valuable feature. The flexibility in configuration options is impressive.
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Rodrigo Martin
CEO Iberia & Latam at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
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JoseFernandez
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Citrix NetScaler offers robust security features, including SmartAccess and customizable policies, making it a reliable choice for safeguarding user data. The seamless integration with Citrix tools enhances both performance and security, creating a powerful combination for optimal IT environments.
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Murathan Ok
Department manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Most of the functions are user-friendly and great. We also have mobile features that are simple but effective.
View full review »It's a well-rounded, well-featured product that is quite flexible in terms of covering quite a lot of use cases depending on the client's environment.
It's quite a competitive solution if you compare it to others. It's one of the market leaders in terms of functionality and features.
It's a stable product.
The solution can scale.
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.
View full review »For VDI, centralization, data protection, and data management are the most important features. As for NetScaler, its key features include a firewall, GSLB, load balancing, and an actual gateway. These are the four tiers of NetScalers.
View full review »Compared to other solutions, Citrix ADC is much more robust in terms of the native integration to cloud platforms. It is far more robust from an operational point of view as well.
Their support is also pretty good.
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Reginald Bentley
System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Citrix Director has been great. It gives us one pane of glass to be able to monitor what's going on with the user sessions as well as to keep on top of the virtual desktops, any servers that may be offline or behaving suspiciously, or any troublesome spots like disconnections.
We also use Citrix Studio for maintaining the actual servers that are hosting these applications. We use it for delivery groups in case we need to modify delivery groups in regards to which groups have access to which applications. It has been very helpful.
View full review »The load balancing is one of the most valuable features. We have several load balancing solutions like F5 and Fortinet.
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Flight9875
Works at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I can turn on features without actually owning a license. I can test them out, I can use them for a while, and then I can be licensed up. That's awesome. I don't have to have a license immediately before I can start to deploy things rapidly, rapid deployment is a plus.
When I compare it to F5 from a hardware or software perspective, they both have their glitches. From a software perspective, either one is not without code bugs.
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Letarik Terefe
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration
Citrix Netscaler makes it easy to provide services to end users, offering better visibility into user sessions compared to VMware. However, instability in network or machine can cause headaches as it's hard to pinpoint issues. SSL offload feature enhances security posture by providing secure connectivity between end users and backend systems. We use additional Azure remote security solutions for comprehensive protection.
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reviewer2354034
Senior Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Not many of our customers use the solution's web application firewall. We use the solution's IP Reputation and bot protection features. We use the solution mostly as Citrix and Gateway ICA proxy and load balancing. There are a lot of changes with the solution, but Citrix NetScaler has quite a comprehensive portfolio of training courses.
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reviewer1987287
General Manager & founder at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature for us is the application firewalling in Citrix NetScaler, ensuring only valid traffic enters our environment. Additionally, it provides insights into the origin and destination of traffic within our data center, giving us control and visibility over our network performance.
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Mohammed Shamseldin Hassan
Manager - Cybersecurity & Cloud Solutions at Paramount Computer Systems
High availability, performance, scalability, and security are the main pillars. It enhances the security for accessing the applications.
It is very user-friendly, and it works fine. The management of the device is very easy from a technical perspective.
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PradeepKumar11
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is easy to use. It's very easy to configure. The solution is not very difficult.
Performance-wise it's okay. The solution is stable.
The solution is easy to set up and the deployment process is quite fast.
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Vitor Arruda
IT Infrastructure Analyst at WEG
The most valuable feature is the management and application delivery for Layer 7 traffic.
View full review »The solution's most valuable features are low latency, reverse proxy, content switching, and access gateway.
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reviewer1987287
General Manager & founder at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is SSL offloading.
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Vitor Arruda
IT Infrastructure Analyst at WEG
- Load Balancing: Why? Availability/Performance: Those are the core features of the product and the main reason for the purchase of an ADC in my company. These features bring a lot of resources that improve the experience of the users.
- NetScaler Gateway: Why? Availability/Security: We delivered more than 200 applications thru Xenapp. This feature give us the possibility to deliver the applications anywhere. Currently, 30% of access is made through our NetScaler Gateway (Internet connections).
- Global Server Load Balancing: Why? Availability: Bring us the possibility to load balance our ISPs links, delivering DNS responses thru available ISP providers.
- Reverse Proxy/AAA Authentication: Why? Availability/Security: Many local websites/applications are now available through the internet, with NetScaler acting as reverse proxy, and through AAA authentication in order to authenticate only necessary users.
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Kumar Murugesan
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC
Citrix NetScaler is a complete solution that is customizable, easy to configure, and has the most features.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN.
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Artem Mikryukov
System Engeneer at CROC
It is simple for both IT specialists and customers. With other products, we cannot leave the customer untrained. We can leave the customer during the early stages using Citrix ADC.
View full review »The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable.
They have specific integration with the product line for application virtualization and desktop virtualization.
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Hemant Upreti
Sr. Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I like app flows and custom flows. They integrate with multiple flows.
View full review »The features I find most useful are
- Load Balancing
- GSLB
- Unified Gateway.
I love being able to terminate connections to the boxes and look at all of the packet headers to determine which way I want to send the traffic next. GSLB provides amazing ability to do active/active or active/passive deployment of services. Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication.
View full review »We appreciate that this solution facilitates our access to Citrix internet.
View full review »I like the ease of use. It's easy to manage. I also like it's ease of use with virtualization technologies with applications.
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Craig Parker
Workplace Virtualisation Senior Analyst at AXA
NetScaler MAS centralised management and analytics makes it is easy to support, manage, monitor, and maintain a NetScaler solution.
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reviewer1282383
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Reducing the content searching to publishing your web application, the OTP for two-factor authentication is the most valuable feature of NetScaler.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Citrix NetScaler was the seamless integration. Additionally, the UI is good.
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Abel Camarillo
Gerente Divisional at Tecnologia Especializada Asociada de México, S.A. De C.V
What I found most valuable from Citrix ADC were the Content Switching and Integrated Caching features which were the things we commonly installed for our customers.
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Eseoghene Charles-Adeoye
Head, Network Design at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The load balancing on the solution is excellent.
The fact that you can do content switching is very useful.
The pricing is pretty good.
The solution is easy to work with and manage.
It's cloud-ready and we can manage it both on-premises and on the cloud if we need to.
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reviewer1187169
Senior Server Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product.
If we need an on-premises load balancer, it's easy enough to spin those up here an there and the VPN seems to be pretty solid as well.
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reviewer2289105
Programator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is the two-factor authentication.
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MURAT DEMIREL
Founder at ASSISTA
The most valuable features of Citrix ADC are load balancing and application firewall.
View full review »The best feature of Citrix is its track record of stability in its features.
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Michael Ewhe
Enterprise Server and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Its flexibility, agility, and robustness are the most valuable. Its management and implementation are also quite easy.
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AdedolapoBadaru
Network Support Officer at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc
The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is very light. Once you log in, you have your applications delivered. It is not heavy over the internet or the web.
My customers have told me that the performance of this solution is good.
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Eseoghene Charles-Adeoye
Head, Network Design at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The load balancing feature and the fact that you can do context switching in the WAF are the most valuable. We majorly use it for load balancing, but we also use it for context switching in the WAF. It is also robust and very easy to work with and manage.
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reviewer1323054
Principal IT Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Citrix is a complete solution for those looking for an all-in-one. It's all there, the NetScaler gateway, remote access, internet access, optimization, load balancing, you have Citrix desktop publishing and VDAs. You can create a complete solution with Citrix. That's a good thing. If you have to troubleshoot something there's no problem like you would have if you were working between different solutions. If you're dealing with different manufacturers, there's always a problem with troubleshooting - nobody wants to take responsibility.
View full review »There are multiple features that I have found to be valuable including load balancing, supply authentication, web for application firewall, and the reverse proxy.
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Syed Basha
IT Cyber Security / IT-DR / BC Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Manageability and visibility are good.
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ChiragMehta
Network & Security Lead at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Content Switching since it provides flexibility for routing traffic as desired to designated real servers. It also provides good geo capabilities through its GSLB feature.
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reviewer1220262
Customer Service Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature is load balancing. This solution will do both global and local load balancing.
The WAF features are very helpful.
View full review »The most valuable feature would be the Citrix permanent server.
It is cost-effective, if you consider the permanent server. Also, the management is easy with no downtimes.
Load Balancer and Access Gateway
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JacquesBodenstein
Senior Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The features I find most valuable are the gateway feature and the SQL load-balancing that you can do as well.
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OMKaewsaenchai
Total Solution System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
It mobilizes everything in and out, leading over bandwidth and manages all of the applications. We use it for front-end crafting.
View full review »There are a lot of them:
- Load balancing in communications
- Global load balancing between data centers
- The management
- Easy integration with other Citrix products.
In the management topic, there are three levels:
- 1st Level, most user-friendly, the GUI, in this level we can configures all the features and inclusive test the implementations.
- 2nd Level Console, very helpful for easy access to all settings and troubleshooting problems, deep level in settings.
- 3rd Level Shell, essential to troubleshooting. Direct access to all logging in the components.
Easy integration with Citrix Solution, NetScaler has wizards to help implementation of Citrix solutions, like XenApp/XenDesktop and Xenmobile.
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reviewer786540
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
HTTP analysis and action. We have a lot of custom web applications that sometimes require custom header insertions. Some of these custom apps are external and, via the Content Switching, we can use one IP and leverage various back-end web app servers.
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reviewer1331604
Infrastructure Project Manager and Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the content switching.
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Berk Sadik
Solution consultant at Demsistem Bilgi ve Teknolojileri Ltd. Sti.
It depends on your needs.
- If you need PCI-compliance and have high security requirements, WAF is the most valuable feature.
- If you need to monitor your load-balancing services with complex types of monitoring, make sure everything is alright, and load balancing is important, Content Switching and Monitoring features are the keys to your needs.
- If you want to provide a lot of static images or data, the Caching feature works best for you.
We have used all the functions. I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us.
View full review »- Easy to configure the settings
- Easy to operate
- A lot of useful network and other great settings
- A lot of official and unofficial documentations are available on the internet
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reviewer1010148
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing.
Citrix ADC is actually not the most preferable product from our perspective but for the virtual desktop use it is very efficient. It's very integrated with the virtual desktop. It has a seamless integration and that is the most valuable part.
Since it has a significant integration with its virtualization, that has improved the usability access of the virtual desktops.
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reviewer1263516
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature is the securing of virtual apps and desktops.
This solution increases the backend network service performance, which is one of the things that we like the most.
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Olayinka Adetijanwa
Solution Architect at ReDoy Corporation
The solution's most valuable feature is the content.
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- Content Switching Applications
- SSL Handling
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reviewer1270815
Business Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
With Citrix ADC, our clients can improve their security, performance, and they can escalate when they need it. It's a complete solution for application delivery and security.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the capability of performing load balancing in a virtual environment.
View full review »The NetScaler Gateway has been extremely valuable for many reasons. We make use of the load balancing capabilities, including SSL offload and GSLB for high availability. The MAS integration for HDX Insight has provided teams with significant visibility into network performance of the user's connection.
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Does great job on most ADC functions: load balancing, SSL offload, responder policies, etc
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reviewer1263516
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
What I like most about Citrix NetScaler is its stability, and I didn't see a lot of issues with it.
View full review »I like the monitoring ability as it enables me to identify when an internal (load-balanced) resource is having issues before it becomes a problem in production.
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Maksim Sataev
network specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Load balancing, cache redirection, content switching, all connected with traffic management.
Load Balancing and SSL offloading are key features.
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reviewer898881
Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature, absolutely, is its high-security. This product is based on Unix and there have been no problems since we started using it in 2015.
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- Netscaler Gateway
- LB - Load balancing
- SSL Offload
- Content Switching
- Responder
- Re-write
- App Firewall
Citrix main strong-point is its flexible deployment model, which can help customers save on acquisition costs at the onset. The TriScale architecture that the Citrix sales guys have been pushing provides a pay as you grow deployment model. It also allows us to consolidate devices with features such as multitenancy and clustering. Other features like SSL offload for 2048-bit and 4096-bit key lenghts and good traffic and application reporting capabilities makes our investment in this product worthwhile.They seem to have pretty competent and responsive technical support.
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reviewer1140936
Business Consultant. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Authorization from mobile diverse for end-users to our infrastructure is a valuable feature.
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Kumar Murugesan
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC
The most valuable features are the VDA Delivery, Gateway Fort, and the load balancing.
Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful. Content Redirection based on application data is a wonderful feature which works absolutely fine with most of the web application, and it has good logics behind it to configure it, and secondly, Single sign-on with Citrix's own applications, like XenApp and XenDesktop.
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Citrix NetScaler
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Citrix NetScaler. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.