We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, 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)."It is a complete solution for those looking for an all-in-one."
"Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful."
"Its customer support service is good."
"From a security standpoint, It is a comprehensive solution in a single box."
"Most of the functions are user-friendly and great."
"Manageability and visibility are good."
"The maintenance of the solution is not complex."
"I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product."
"HAProxy Enterprise Edition has been rock solid. We have essentially had no downtime caused by our load balancers in the last 10 months, because they’ve worked so well. Previously, our load balancers caused us multiple hours per year in downtime."
"We don't have a problem with the user interface. it's good."
"The most important features would be the load-balancing of HTTP and TCP requests, according to multiple LB-algorithms (busyness, weighted-busyness, round robin, traffic, etc). Another important feature that we cannot live without is the username/passwd authentication for legacy systems that had none."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"The anti-DDOS PacketShield filtering solution (embedded in the physical appliances) as well as the BGP route injection are great features and heavily used."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"HAProxy's TCP load balancer is excellent and super stable."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The product offers high availability."
"We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process iss 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 feel that Citrix NetScaler's customer support needs to improve."
"The SLB could be better, and they should improve it."
"Technical support could be improved."
"If one device or switch fails, the failover to another device is not seamless which is painful."
"We face challenges with the solution's firmware upgrades frequently."
"The GUI should be improved."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"HAProxy could improve by making the dashboards easier to use, and better reports and administration tickets."
"The logging functionality could use improvement, as it is a little cryptic."
"We've changed solutions as it doesn't fit with our current needs."
"The basic clustering is not usable in our very specific setup. The clustering is mainly a configuration replication and is great in a case of active-passive usage. In the case of an active-active (or with more than two nodes) where the configuration is not fully identical, it cannot be used as-is."
"Maybe HAProxy could be more modular."
"Dynamic update API. More things should be possible to be configured during runtime."
"Sometimes it's challenging to get through the log, and you need a log to understand what is going on. It isn't easy to map the logging with the documentation, and every time I read the log, I have to pull out the documentation to understand what I'm reading."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"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."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"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."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"Performance could be improved."