Use Citrix NetScaler to improve your environment
August 10, 2018
Use Citrix NetScaler to improve your environment
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Citrix NetScaler
We are using Citrix NetScaler to provide a Citrix environment to deploy apps to users. We can also deploy a desktop and remote access to our users. This app is a mission critical app and Citrix provides fault tolerance. If one app server goes down we have several others to take over.
- Load Balancing
- Fault Tolerance
- Centralized Administration. It's a lot faster to setup a Citrix account than a whole user. You can deploy that same app across platforms as the Citrix client works on both iOS and Windows.
- Citrix handles video much better than Microsoft Remote Desktop Services.
- Cost. Citrix costs more and you still need to have Microsoft Remote Desktop below it. However the value is there. Citrix does a better job.
- Client needs to be reconfigured periodically. Keep your config file handy so you can just import it back in.
- Little harder to troubleshoot issues. It's no longer a single server that could be the problem.
- Solved the biggest frustration issue for Management - Graphical look of fonts in our Apps.
- Gave us failover for when a server needs maintenance.
Citrix competes with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Citrix however adds features that makes for a lighter client. Lighter bandwidth needed between client and server. This enables you to work over slower data links or enables more users on a link. Citrix gives a better graphical representation of the screens. Citrix adds better printing functionality.