Citrix NetScaler Reviews

• LB - Load balancing
• SSL Offload
• Content Switching
• Responder
• Re-write
• App Firewall

Our company provides Managed Services and does Service Integration for our customers. We have deployed Citrix NetScaler for many customers. It has helped them to increase application up-time, scalability, and enhanced application performance and security.

I would like to see support for scripting, like "iRule", which gives you the option to implement any configuration which is not available out of the box. I would also like to see support for OCSP stapling.

We have used this solution for five years.

Sometimes there are stability issues with certain releases.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I would rate the level of technical support as excellent.

We work with multiple ADC vendors.

The initial setup had very few steps involved and the network settings were simple.

We work with all OEMs.

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.

It is somewhat frustrating that there has been less feature innovations from their products. Though I really believe that Citrix’s TriScale architecture is a very innovative and successful strategy, it still lacks features such as asymmetric web content optimization which is an essential for ADCs. Also, the use of templates for ease of configuration and use also makes it a somewhat inflexible system. If you need a more advanced rules creation system then this product is not for you.

I worked with Netscaler in my previous company. Overall, I recommend it. Its innovative TriScale architecture and SSL offloading capability are on par with some of the best products available. It’s a very user-friendly system that is easy to configure and use for a variety of deployment scenarios

We primarily use the solution as a device for connections from our mobile corporate devices to our infrastructure.

provided a secure connection to critical information

Authorization from mobile diverse for end-users to our infrastructure is a valuable feature. 

We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process is complicated for us because Citrix does not have a not user-friendly interface and does not off user-friendly services. This needs a lot of improvement.

I've been using the solution for one year.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

No

The solution was very easy to deploy.

The implementation was handled internally by our team.

For enterprise-level pricing, the cost isn't too high.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It's pretty good, but the issues surrounding the certificates make it a difficult system for us.

In terms of advice, I would give to others, I'd say that they should read the manual before implementing the solution. Also, be sure to have someone on your team who knows Citrix very well. If you do not understand all processes when you deploy this solution, you will have issues.

Microsoft Azure

We are using this Citrix ADC with Windows Applications and desktop delivery.

They need to improve the ADC report

The most valuable features are the VDA Delivery, Gateway Fort, and the load balancing.

The security is okay, but the monitoring and reporting need improvement.

The price can be reduced. Our customers have compared the pricing and have indicated that there is a big difference compared to others, so it should be more competitive.

I have been using this solution for the last three to four years.

They have both the VPX and the MPX hardware, and with the ADC, it's a stable product.

With a subscription, they will give you immediate support.

Straightforward

In-house Team

When compared to other solutions, the cost is high.

There are subscriptions for technical support available for an additional fee.

This solution can be deployed on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud. It's hybrid.

It's a good product and I recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

On-premises

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.

I have given this solution to many customers of NetScaler. It helped many businesses to gain high availability for their particular web application tiers.

Scripting and writing expressions need to be improved by putting logic behind the rules and improve policies involving some of the scripting part, which is a tedious task to do.

Almost two to three years.

Not as such, their Support Team and R&D Team were not able to give a solution in one case.

No.

An eight out of 10.

I worked with KEMP and NetScaler.

No, it is complicated and there is limited expertise in market for deployment.

Costly product and complicated licensing.

I tried KEMP.

Check the solution provided by Citrix twice and get a PoC done.