We performed a comparison between OpenVPN Access Server and SonicWall Netextender based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"It is open-source and free to use."
"Its most valuable feature is that it is open source."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to implement."
"Provides privacy and cryptography for my network communication."
"OpenVPN Access Server is cheap, and we get to use it ourselves. It is also a stable solution."
"It can securely do remote product updates... just as if it was on our LAN."
"The compatibility with almost any Linux operating system, and how easy it is to write scripts and generate keys for people to use and log in. I found it easy to deploy quickly."
"It is open source and therefore affordable for small projects."
"My company opted for this solution because it can individually perform. Basically, we don't require load balancers and all those additional feature sets or additional devices that might be required. The solution can handle the certificate, DNS queries, and all that stuff individually."
"I found nothing of value in this solution."
"The solution provides high availability."
"One of the most valuable features of SonicWall Netextender is the integration of VPN accounts with Microsoft Identity Management, which enables us to enforce secure access through Microsoft Intune and conditional access policies. This helps ensure that only authorized individuals are able to access the VPN, rather than anyone with knowledge of a password."
"The most valuable feature for the Netextender is the ease with which we can integrate it with SAML."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"It allows us to work remotely."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"There was one annoying feature where we had to disable and enable the user. I cannot remember what it was exactly, but I think it was for a password lockout. It would be nice if there was a checkbox, or something, in the web interface to allow you to unlock a user whose password was locked."
"They may have this already, but it would be nice to be able to get more notifications if a site drops unexpectedly."
"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."
"It requires some experience of Linux server configuration to set it up."
"There is always room for more security features."
"They should make the solution more secure by adding some firewall functionalities."
"I would like to see continued advanced security implementation."
"There sometimes is an incompatibility between some VPNs."
"The product does not work well."
"Right now, you have to load each license on to an appliance. You can't pool across multiple appliances. So, you end up having to do a lot of administrative work to recover if an internet provider goes down, and you cannot leverage it as easily into a DR solution."
"The UI could be a little better."
"The solution takes up a lot of bandwidth."
"They need to rewrite the software to make it a usable product."
"The Netextender application itself doesn't really look pretty, however, we can still use it. We don't care what it looks like. That said, if they did a cosmetic update, that would be fine."
"The only concern I do have is with the zero trust, and the solution is not coping with the newer technologies as much as it needs to do on that particular factor."
"There must be a multi-factor authentication enabled or integrated by default with it in order to be integrated with NetExtender."
OpenVPN Access Server is ranked 1st in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 44 reviews while SonicWall Netextender is ranked 14th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 11 reviews. OpenVPN Access Server is rated 8.4, while SonicWall Netextender is rated 6.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Netextender writes "An affordable and stable solution that is easy to use and provides two-factor authentication". OpenVPN Access Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas SonicWall Netextender is most compared with SonicWall Mobile Connect, SonicWall Connect Tunnel, Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway. See our OpenVPN Access Server vs. SonicWall Netextender report.
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