We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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."Bandwidth optimization and capacity awareness of the bandwidth are valuable features. Its video streaming capabilities are also very useful."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"The solution is robust and reliable."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"Good application firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the proxy."
"The most valuable features are DNS, APM, and ASM. Additionally, it is easy to use and you have a lot of flexibility to use the solution within a network."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"The pricing of the solution is valuable."
"There is a simplicity to the setup and configuration."
"The configuration is really easy and the web portal is self-explanatory."
"The most valuable feature that I found is the load balancing feature, it is the core function of the product."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple."
"The user interface is very easy to work with."
"We really like the performance of this solution."
"Edge Security Pack is valuable because of the way it separates between critical infrastructure and the public internet."
"There are not very many areas for improvement, but the price is high."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"The SharePoint SSO part has some room for improvement."
"The auto logout feature after three minutes is terrible. I wish they would make that longer, since it is not a feature that we can change."
"Reporting could be improved and configuration made easier."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"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."
"Hardware version needs a dual power solution."
"We experienced a brief period of instability."
"It would be much easier to have the management interface directly integrate with the Kemp Support library, allowing you to choose the desired template from the online catalog to then directly download to the LoadMaster."
"Some of the support documentation seems to make assumptions that the person installing or configuring is experienced with the product or concepts."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"Over the last several major versions, the GUI has remained virtually unchanged and still seems lacking."
"I really don't like the way the logs are presented in the software."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 6th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, NGINX Plus, Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Kemp LoadMaster report.
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