So today the eval NetScaler arrived and the Citrix engineer went over some basic setup info with us, then turned it over into our eager hands. It's going to be really fun toying around with both the Big-IP and the NetScaler to see which one we like.
Performance isn't really that big of an issue for us (yet). We Akamaize a lot of our static content (to the tune of offloading about 40 Mbps of traffic on average). The main question is, can we SysAdmins figure out how to do what we need to do easily, and as quickly as possible? We want to see an easy to use CLI *and* a functional GUI. We also want to see statistics and detailed reporting, as well as the ability to create graphs in Cacti for as much useful data as possible.
The NetScaler quote came in at around $50,000 for a pair (we want redundancy of course). The Big-IP came in at about $35,000 a pair. We're not quite sure why the difference is so much, but hopefully after several days of tinkering and some help from our VAR, we'll get to the bottom of that.
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