We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Kemp LoadMaster 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."I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"The product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"We really like the performance of this solution."
"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"With Kemp 360 Central, our customers get a nice overview of their Kemp products and an easy way to upgrade firmware on all devices from a single interface."
"Exchange load balancing and reverse proxy for Skype for Business are key features."
"The DNS Load Balancer makes it so that I don't have to worry about site failures."
"LoadMaster is easy to deploy and understand."
"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"From my personal experience, many firewalls provide Load Balancing functionalities, but Kemp Loadmaster has a lot of features and functionalities like what you can configure. So there are a lot of features but we use only five percent of it."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"They need to improve the UI environment. Currently, it's hard to navigate and use product."
"I really don't like the way the logs are presented in the software."
"The only thing that I miss is that the TMG server was giving me live information about who is connected and what is the request about."
"I want to have the ability to pull a particular server. The DevOps portion was challenging for me, like if I needed to redirect from one IP to another URL. I needed to look that up, and the knowledge base is not well organized. When I look for information about Kemp on the Internet, I don't find many articles or something like that."
"To make it a perfect ten out of ten it would need better connection logging. If there is an active connection, that there is better logging. It should also have better management monitoring tools."
"In the web interface, there are a lot of settings in the different menus and it would be helpful if there were an interactive help system or tooltips to help the administrators find and configure the right settings."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"It lacks an officially supported, well-written SCOM Management Pack."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Loadbalancer.org, whereas Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Fortinet FortiADC vs. Kemp LoadMaster report.
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