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)."Great load balancing."
"The occasion in which we needed technical support, we didn't have problems with them, because they always answered our questions without any trouble."
"I have Big-IP change and control manager, which give me the roll back option. Therefore, I can view the last things which happened on the device."
"The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"Along with load balancing, we perform a lot of packet inspections, URL rewriting, and SSL interceptions via iRule."
"The solution is robust and reliable."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"I was able to simply and quickly set up the WAF rules and security, and also set up easily complex policies and rules which gave me some great features to redirect."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"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."
"Its price can be better. It is a bit expensive."
"I think the logging could be improved."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"If we decide to migrate to the cloud, I don't think that BIG-IP is a good solution and we probably won't use it."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"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, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer.
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