We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and OpenVPN Access Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is IP Intelligence."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"One of the greatest things about F5 Load Balancer is that it provides additional capability for handling huge workloads and routing them to an SAP or non-SAP application. It is capable of supporting a large amount of user workload and application connectivity workload. This was the main reason why we chose F5."
"F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager has better modular features especially LTM, which according to the clients, is very beneficial. Most of the users opt for a combination of big IP LTM and WAF which helps them to leverage application load balancing and enhance application security many-fold."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"It improves the overall performance of applications by decreasing the burden on servers associated with managing and maintaining applications and network sessions, as well as by performing application-specific tasks."
"Provides privacy and cryptography for my network communication."
"The most valuable features of the OpenVPN Access Server are the ease of use and integration with different platforms, such as Android and Windows. I can use the solution on my desktop and mobile devices. Additionally, the solution is secure."
"The solution is reliable, easy to use, and open source. It's free at no cost."
"You can do local subnet blocking."
"The setup is easy."
"The initial setup phase of OpenVPN Access Server was fine, and it was easy."
"A valuable feature for us is its ability to see the new Citrix server as a local server within the company. And it allows us to test abroad."
"It is open source and therefore affordable for small projects."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"My only point of contention would be that it is a little pricey."
"I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role."
"If they made it easier for engineers to get F5 training then it would be better."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"They may have this already, but it would be nice to be able to get more notifications if a site drops unexpectedly."
"I think right now the GUI part of it is locked out behind the pay wall. It could use something that gives it a very basic, minimal, graphic interface for logging in, for the community version. That would probably be a good step forward."
"The stability of the solution could improve."
"The high availability deployment is not very straightforward. They can make it simpler. OpenVPN does not support some of the additional protocols that Pulse Secure and Cisco AnyConnect support. They can include support for these additional protocols."
"The solution should provide a faster connection, and its security could be improved."
"The upgrade path from older versions was more difficult than we wanted to tackle, so we ran an older version of the software for longer than I wanted. Patching, updating, and migrating to newer versions was a problem for us. That said, we were on a rather old version that I inherited yet it worked rock solid."
"The security needs to be improved because it was a complaint that our customers had."
"If there was a Graphical User Interface to help streamline the configuration, I believe OpenVPN would probably venture more into the non-geek realm as it were."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 45 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4. 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 OpenVPN Access Server writes "An easy-to-use tool with which its users can access networks from home or external locations". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Plus, whereas OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. OpenVPN Access Server report.
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