We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."There is a lot of documentation available."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"The configuration and integration into the AWS environment was pretty easy."
"The product is very stable. We put a decent amount of stress on it given our load."
"Initial setup was straightforward. We were up and running in three hours."
"We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
"There is a challenge in Pakistan. This is when there is a hardware failure. Sometimes, it takes more time to get a replacement because it is sent out from the U.S. or some other regional outpost. Thus, it takes two to three days to receive a replacement."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is a hardware load balancer, and its installation procedure is more complex than a software load balancer. There are pros and cons of using hardware load balancing. You have to have specific hardware deployed in your data center to activate this load balancer. They never came up with any software-based load balancing solution. It is all hardware-based."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"The web interface could be better."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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