Not ready for a production environment
Here's a quick summary:
The BAD:
- the product is unstable. It's crashing for various reasons. This ranges from a restart every week to 5-6 restarts each day.
- when it doesn't crash it has other networking issues. We've lost weeks chasing a bug that randomly dropped TCP packets.
- the Java GUI is completely unusable. It's incredibly slow and doesn't function with new Java versions. If you want to use it you have to open up every security hole there is in the JVM.
The GOOD:
- the Netscaler console is incredibly powerful and you can configure the instance really fast and reliable from there
- the policy engine is decently powerful. It can be tailored to route/rewrite/respond to traffic pretty much every way you like.
I wouldn't recommend this for production use unless you like to stay awake day and night and mop after every crash or you're fine with an uptime close to 96-98%.
I do agree that in 2014 the Cloud was new for Citrix ADC and there might be some challenges. But with time it, has evolved, became powerful and easy to deploy. Past few years Citrix ADC is trending with a simple UI, Faster to deploy and ready for production.
Wow, that's really poor. Does Citrix actually care about software quality any more? How come zero responses from them here? "Not ready for a production environment" -- thank you for saving me the headache of finding this out for myself :)