NetScaler Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Kumar Murugesan

Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC

Dec 14, 2020

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Delivery and load balancing that is stable and secure

Pros and Cons

"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."

What is our primary use case?

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

How has it helped my organization?

They need to improve the ADC report

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

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.

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For how long have I used the solution?

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

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and support?

With a subscription, they will give you immediate support.

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward

What about the implementation team?

In-house Team

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

When compared to other solutions, the cost is high.

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

What other advice do I have?

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.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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Citrix / Virtualization Pre-Sales and Implementation Engg. at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Aug 20, 2017

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Content Redirection Works With Most Of The Web Application And Has Good Logics Behind It To Configure It

Pros and Cons

"Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful."

"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."

What is most valuable?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

Almost two to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

An eight out of 10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I worked with KEMP and NetScaler.

How was the initial setup?

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

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Costly product and complicated licensing.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I tried KEMP.

What other advice do I have?

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

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner