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)."What we like best about this solution is its stability. It is extremely stable."
"I've worked a little bit with iRules and it is amazing."
"We have found the consistency of the application always being the way it is supposed to be as its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"It has so many features. First of all, it has a full proxy architecture, it has multiple modules. The best feature is the WAF, the web application firewall module. It also has cashing type capabilities. It has all kinds of load-balancing algorithms based on your IT requirements."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"NetFlow balancing and traffic balancing are good features."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"There are some aspects of F5 BIG-IP that could be improved, the main one being virtual machine support. We have seen that even with the virtual editions, there are some things that we would like to do that are currently not possible with virtual machines."
"While the licensing is good through the AWS Marketplace, it is more expensive than what you could buy yourself."
"Its scalability and deployment should be better. It should be more scalable, and it should be easier to deploy."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"Logging is a bit of a problem. Logging and monitoring are only in plain text. You have to search and you have to know what you are searching for to find anything. So of course, monitoring and getting alerts for abnormal situations is hard. There are no tools for monitoring and alerts"
"Fixing bugs."
"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, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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