We performed a comparison between Array APV Series and HAProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."One of the most valuable features of this solution is the server load balancing. Something that sets this solution apart from other products is that the hardware has a much higher capacity than other vendors. That's the edge of Array Networks. Their technical support services are also very good."
"It improves our scalability and responsiveness services to meet our demanding customer requirements."
"Reliability. HAProxy is the most reliable product I have ever used."
"We did not need technical support because the documentation is good."
"Performance configuration options with threads, processes, and core stickiness are very valuable."
"I estimate that this product has saved our company hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in possible downtime from previous load balancers. We make a lot of our money from online sales, so it is critical to have 99.9% uptime."
"The most valuable thing for me is TCP/IP Layer 4 stuff you can do with HAProxy. You can go down to the protocol level and make decisions on something."
"Tech support is super-quick to respond, and always on target with answers specific to the current issue."
"It has allowed us to evenly distribute the load across a number of servers, and check their health and automatically react to errors."
"I would like to see more granular reporting and monitoring features, and I believe our clients want to see them as well. Also, SD-WAN would be a good addition."
"Documentation could be improved."
"There are three main areas to improve: 1) Make remote management more modern by adding API. 2) Propose a general HA solution for HAProxy (no I'm using keepalived for this). 3) Thread option should be a bit more stable."
"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."
"The only area that I can see needing improvement is the management interface, since it is pretty much all through the CLI or configuration. A GUI/web interface could be helpful for users who are not as experienced in the Linux shell. However, HAProxy does have another product that we evaluated called ALOHA, which has a web front-end, but we found it did not meet our needs."
"There is room for improvement in HAProxy's dynamic configuration."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"There is no standardized document available. So, any individual has to work from scratch to work it out. If some standard deployment details are available, it would be helpful for people while deploying it. There should be more documentation on the standard deployment."
"I would like to evaluate load-balancing algorithms other than round robin and SSL offloading. Also, it would be helpful if I could logically divide the HAProxy load-balancing into multiple entities so that I would install one HA Proxy LB application which could be used for different Web servers for different applications. I am not sure if these features are available."
Array APV Series is ranked 17th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while HAProxy is ranked 3rd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 41 reviews. Array APV Series is rated 0.0, while HAProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Array APV Series writes "High-capacity, easy to deploy solution with a very knowledgeable technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". Array APV Series is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Radware Alteon, Citrix NetScaler and Fortinet FortiADC, whereas HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy.
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